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« on: June 26, 2016, 04:05:24 pm »

How to remove a hard drive partition on your Mac

Do you need to get back that extra space you gave up to partition your Mac's hard drive?

If you have previously partitioned your Mac's hard drive in order to download a beta or install Windows, but now you need that storage space back, you can remove the partition and recapture the much-needed space. Here's how.



Getting rid of a secondary partition on the Mac is a two-step process. After erasing a partition, you can then remove it from your system.

Before you start



The most important thing to do before making any changes to your hard drive is to back it up. Time Machine has the easiest way to back up your data if you don't already have a system in place.

How to erase a partition on your Mac

Make sure to restart your computer in your main partition to erase additional ones.

Open Finder from your dock.
Select Applications.


Scroll down and open the Utilities folder.
Double-click to open Disk Utility.


Select the partition you wish to erase.
Click Erase.
Click Erase to conf...

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