How do I delete Recovery HD on my os x High Sierra?

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How do I delete Recovery HD on my os x High Sierra?

I had a windows 10 partition through bootcamp and yesterday i decided to get rid of it, so, i used disk utility to remove all the 110GB of the partition but that was a big mistake because now the windows partition has become ‘recovery hd’ and I used the terminal command to check that and i could see that the recovery hd occupied 110GB. Is there any way to get my 110GB back? I am ready to wipe everything off. I tried to find a solution earlier but nothing proved to be too helpful since all of them were using old version of os x like Mountain Lion. I also tried to bring up the debug menu on disk utility to delete the partition, but looks like High Sierra has removed that function. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My 21.5” iMac is having 500GB on hdd and when i boot by pressing command and R and select disk utility, i can see the my hdd is only having 316GB of storage left. I tried to do a quick erase but that didn’t solve my problems. Thanks in advance

Posted on Jan 30, 2018 1:29 AM

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UnbeatableSenpai420 Author

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Jan 30, 2018 9:21 AM in response to CountryGirl56

Fixed the problem. All I had to do was boot into safe mode by holding Command-R and select Disk Utility, then go to the View Tab and select show all disks. Then I selected the main HDD and erased it in GUID format. Then reinstalled OS X High Sierra. It’s currently installing but I’m sure I have got my partition back 😭

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Jan 30, 2018 7:36 AM in response to UnbeatableSenpai420

Disk Utility never worked to remove a Boot Camp partition. I think the only way you will get the space back is to reformat the drive and reinstall. Most likely using Internet Recovery. Make sure you have a current backup first.

Maybe someone else knows a way.

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Jan 30, 2018 5:59 AM in response to UnbeatableSenpai420

See: Set up a Windows partition on your Mac - Apple Support

Remove the partition

Use Boot Camp Assistant to safely remove Windows and the Windows partition from your Mac, restoring your startup drive to a single Mac partition. You may want to back up your information first, because removing the partition erases all of the data it contains.

Open Boot Camp Assistant.

Select “Remove Windows 7 or later version," then click Continue.

Do one of the following:

If your Mac has a single internal disk, click Restore.

If your Mac has multiple internal disks, select the Windows disk, select “Restore disk to a single OS X partition,” then click Continue.

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a brody

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Jan 30, 2018 5:16 AM in response to UnbeatableSenpai420

There is a bug in High Sierra's Disk Utility. It won't let you "delete" a partition to regain space. It will only let you delete the partition, and the space is unusable as deleted space.

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Jan 30, 2018 7:19 AM in response to CountryGirl56

Yup, i had previously used bootcamp to remove my windows 8 partition but since the process took so much time to remove, i decided to use disk utility. Anyway, thanks for the reply, but the deed has been done. Do you have any solution which might help me get my space back?

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Jan 30, 2018 5:40 AM in response to UnbeatableSenpai420

It's a little late now but, you shouldn't use Disk Utility to remove a Windows Boot Camp partition. You should remove it using Boot Camp Assistant.

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Jan 30, 2018 7:20 AM in response to a brody

Thanks for the reply A Brody. Are you having any solution in mind which might help me get my storage back without having the need to wait for a new os x update?

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