Cannot delete partitions from MBP Help!

[jhawkin1]

I am unable to delete partitions. My Disk Utility looks completely different than YouTube Video as to how to delete partitions. See attached screen shot of YouTube Video compared to my screen...any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

 

[Fishrrman]

Can you boot to internet recovery?
That is:
Command-OPTION-R

You will need your wifi password.
It will take some time for the internet utilities to load.

When they do, open disk utility.
You can now erase the entire drive if you want.

My recommendation for getting rid of partitions you don't want:
1. BACK UP the stuff you DO want to save to an external drive.
2. Boot to internet recovery (as above)
3. Use disk utility to ERASE the entire drive (for El Cap, choose Mac OS extended with journaling enabled, GUID partition format)
4. Create any new partitions you want while you are still in disk utility.
5. Now, restore your data from the backup drive.

 

[clueless88]

It looks like the image that you captured from YouTube was on a previous MacOS, since the volume was named "El Capitan" it probably was El Capitan--mac os 10.11.x It looks like you are probably on Catalina mac os 10.15.xx--that's why the Disk Utility screens look different.

 

[reklam]

Hi,
I have 2 SSD on my MBP 2010 mid 15"
OSX El Capitan, and Windows10
Windows10 SSD have 2 partition
I would like to delete 2nd and use for another MacOS, but I can format only NTFS
Under OSX I cannot format, cannot delete, error message popup on OSX if I want to
Under Winodosw 10 I can only format as NTFS
If I cannot use that partition as another OSX, I would like to use as EXFAT not NTFS to share datas between 2 OS
How can I use as 2nd OSX, or EXFAT?

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[1madman1]

It's definitely possible to forcibly format anything as ExFAT in Windows via the diskpart command line tool. You can probably do the same in MacOS via diskutil in terminal, but I'm not familiar enough with it to say for certain.