HOW TO: Delete a partition on Mac

Learn how to remove a partition using the OS X Disk Utility in this easy to follow walkthrough. It's a good method to use when removing the El Capitan beta partition after you've finished testing it.

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HOW TO: Delete a partition on Mac

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[danijones]

This was legit the easiest tutorial and it works for Catalina!!!!
Thank you!!!!

[carloisidoresalcedo]

Does it delete the contents of the drives involved?

[mydasmurray]

60 videos later, this one fixed my partition issue. thx

[yessiejess]

thanks dude, 2020 here lol. this helped more than the 16 minutes newer videos.

[leosypher]

please do this same tutorial but for el caption, i have the tabs above but the partition is grey and i am unable to select it

[strikerherb]

Great Video. Quick and concise!!! Even in 2022 :). Restoring an old mid 2007 iMac back to its original glory and had to create a partition for Mac OS X snow leopard. Thanks again!!!

[davidwalker]

been trying to sort this out for an age watched your vlog sorted out in minutes

[tonyle]

Please help? On my MacBook pro internal hard drive have two disks one is HD with 100g the other in 200g Data can i combine into one hard drive with 300g without loosing any files on either one of them?

[alykofi]

What to do when I try to erase disk0s2 it says volume erase failed file system formatted failed

[coracaoestrangeiro]

When I resize the original partition, does it earase the original partition?

[tilleyroadaffairproduction]

Hi Jeff, Thanks for this video. I am trying to do this with Sierra high and my icon is a pie instead of a square. Can you explain how to do this with the new system?

[vaibhavkhade]

After updating to Catalina, it have created "Macintosh HD" & "Macintosh HD - Data" named partition. Can you help me to identify & remove unwanted partition from these ones??

[jamesgfg]

I have a dual boot partition. Before the partition it was running only 10.8.5. The added partition runs 10.11.6. Can I erase 10.8.5 and reclaim the partition to use only 10.11.6? Thank you.

[Bob-exyx]

Worked! And good vid, fast and short!

[mattr]

But can I do it from a batch file to delete the system reserved partition?

[NDRAMSMOOTH]

I knew how to do this right around when you made this video, years later I had forgotten, thank you from the future.

[mrwoo]

How do you delete the partition on Sierra 10.12.6. ?

[xFaZebRuTaLx]

my usb used to work for windows but then i changed the format or something and had a partition and i cant figure out how to return it back to being usable for windows. please help

[sergiomoreno]

It was easy. I was able to follow this for my MacbookPro 2011. It was a little different, but I managed. I'm in the 'very bad with all things tech' category, and yours was simple enough to use compared to other instructionals I tried. Thanks

[cherylspear]

If I delete my partition would’ve it allow me to put my operating system back on.. I am new at this.. I have a lexar drive.. Trying to boot it up from there, but it’s posting about guild and partitions.. That’s why I’m asking .. Thanks