Good morning,
I need to delete my Bootcamp partition, on Mojave OS. I read that I should do run a diskutil command and then delete it using terminal again: can someone please help me? I have been stuck for quite a while.
Thanks a lot.
Larry
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Do not use Disk Utility to remove a BC Assistant created partition. Run BCA, and click on Remove/Restore to get the Windows disk space merged back into macOS Container.
Do not use Disk Utility to remove a BC Assistant created partition. Run BCA, and click on Remove/Restore to get the Windows disk space merged back into macOS Container.
BC Assistant does not like WinRE and will not clean up. In your specific case, try
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3
diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4
diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s4
diskutil list
If you only see disk0s3, then
diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3
and run BCA and click on Restore/Remove.
Run
diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3
and run BCA and click on Restore/Remove.
Diskutil commands can fail when working with partitions smaller than 1GB. Post the output of
diskutil list
and I can explain. You should now only have disk0s[1,2,3].
Hi Loner T,
I tried the steps you suggested: the first step (diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3) was ok, then I tried the second (diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4) and I got the error you can see in the screenshot.
I didn't key in the following steps.
Instead, I opened Bootcamp Assistant and I got the message you can see in the second screenshot. I exited Bootcamp Assistant without doing anything else.
I checked an open Finder window: as I knew, I have about 74 GB available on the hard disk (flash, in fact).
I checked System Preferences: the startup disk is the Mac. In fact, the Bootcamp with Windows is not there anymore.
I left System preferences without doing anything else.
I checked Disk Utility (the app on my MacBook Pro) and I got the screenshot you can see.
In fact, on my desktop the icon of the hard disk that used to say Bootcamp, now reads BC1, as per screenshot.
I have no idea what's going on...I hope you do 🙂
Thanks a lot for your help, if you have time please tell me what to do next.
Larry
Hi Loner, thank you for your reply 🙂 This is what I see when I try to use Bootcamp assistant: any idea...? thanks a lot again 🙂.
Larry
PS I attach also what I see when I do diskutil list:
Hi Loner T, thanks a lot, I'll try asap (I am in the middle of work right now) and I will let you know. Thanks again 🙂
I see...
ok, I ran
diskutil list
and I attach the result...
Thank you for taking the time to help me with this issue 🙂
Larry
Hi Loner T, I did as you said and this is the result...complete success! Thanks a lot! is there anything I can do besides marking your help as great?
Excellent. Please post back, if you run into any further issues with your Mac.
Deleting Bootcamp via Disk Utility or Terminal
