I got a new SSD for my Late 2013 MacBook Pro. 500 GB instead of 250 GB. The drive is APFS formatted but has no macOS installed. However, it has apparently an OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) recovery partition (with the option to reinstall OS X 10.9 when booting into recovery mode). This recovery partition takes up about 5 GB on the drive.
I want to install macOS 10.13 on this SSD (I have the installer already copied to the drive), and I want, of course, not to have a Mavericks recovery partition to take up any space. How do I do this best?
Can I simply delete the old recovery partition? How?
I started the computer from an external hard drive with macOS 10.13 and tried to reformat the SSD with APFS but got three times only a "failed" message. I'm anyway not sure whether that would also delete the recovery partition.
[doublepost=1533324062][/doublepost]Update: (Amost) all nonsense. The 5 GB on the SSD are from the macOS 10.13 installer. No idea why the OS X 10.9 option shows up when starting into recovery mode. I'm right now installing macOS 10.13 and will see what then shows up in recovery mode.
I want to install macOS 10.13 on this SSD (I have the installer already copied to the drive), and I want, of course, not to have a Mavericks recovery partition to take up any space. How do I do this best?
Can I simply delete the old recovery partition? How?
I started the computer from an external hard drive with macOS 10.13 and tried to reformat the SSD with APFS but got three times only a "failed" message. I'm anyway not sure whether that would also delete the recovery partition.
[doublepost=1533324062][/doublepost]Update: (Amost) all nonsense. The 5 GB on the SSD are from the macOS 10.13 installer. No idea why the OS X 10.9 option shows up when starting into recovery mode. I'm right now installing macOS 10.13 and will see what then shows up in recovery mode.
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