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Unable to recuperate space back
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Do it "my way", and I guarantee you'll "get the space back" -- 100%.
1. Get an external USB3 drive.
2. Download CarbonCopyCloner from here:
www.bombich.com
CCC is FREE to download and use for 30 days -- this costs you nothing.
3. Use CCC to create a bootable cloned backup of the Mac OS partition of your internal drive.
Do you have a t2 chip Mac?
4. If so, you must boot to the recovery partition and DISABLE "startup security". Do that first, then we're ready to continue.
5. Now, boot from the bootable cloned backup you just made:
Reboot and hold down the option key continuously until the startup manager appears, select the backup, and hit return.
6. The Mac should boot from the cloned backup.
7. When you get to the finder, open disk utility.
8. Go to the view menu and choose "show ALL devices".
9. Now locate (on the left) the "top line" which represent your physical internal drive.
10. ERASE IT to APFS with GUID partition format
11. Quit disk utility and re-open CarbonCopyCloner.
12. Now, RE-clone the contents of the backup drive BACK TO the internal drive.
13. When done, power down, all the way off. DISCONNECT the backup drive and press the power-on button. Can you get to the login screen?
14. Login and look around. The windows partition should be gone.
Last bit of advice:
DON'T bother with bootcamp any more!
1. Get an external USB3 drive.
2. Download CarbonCopyCloner from here:
Download CCC - Bombich Software
3. Use CCC to create a bootable cloned backup of the Mac OS partition of your internal drive.
Do you have a t2 chip Mac?
4. If so, you must boot to the recovery partition and DISABLE "startup security". Do that first, then we're ready to continue.
5. Now, boot from the bootable cloned backup you just made:
Reboot and hold down the option key continuously until the startup manager appears, select the backup, and hit return.
6. The Mac should boot from the cloned backup.
7. When you get to the finder, open disk utility.
8. Go to the view menu and choose "show ALL devices".
9. Now locate (on the left) the "top line" which represent your physical internal drive.
10. ERASE IT to APFS with GUID partition format
11. Quit disk utility and re-open CarbonCopyCloner.
12. Now, RE-clone the contents of the backup drive BACK TO the internal drive.
13. When done, power down, all the way off. DISCONNECT the backup drive and press the power-on button. Can you get to the login screen?
14. Login and look around. The windows partition should be gone.
Last bit of advice:
DON'T bother with bootcamp any more!
This was the charm for me.
couple easy terminal inputs and container is gone. Mine was about 160gb big.
Boot to recovery mode first. Hold COMMAND + R keys after a restart...
couple easy terminal inputs and container is gone. Mine was about 160gb big.
Boot to recovery mode first. Hold COMMAND + R keys after a restart...
Thanks I will try that out also. But the situation is that I don't have a partition that says Boot camp or which I will erase it.
Also How do I get to the disk utility? I use comand, option and R and is stay stuck
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Thanks for.your.fast reply:Do it "my way", and I guarantee you'll "get the space back" -- 100%.
1. Get an external USB3 drive.
2. Download CarbonCopyCloner from here:
CCC is FREE to download and use for 30 days -- this costs you nothing.Download CCC - Bombich Software
3. Use CCC to create a bootable cloned backup of the Mac OS partition of your internal drive.
Do you have a t2 chip Mac?
4. If so, you must boot to the recovery partition and DISABLE "startup security". Do that first, then we're ready to continue.
5. Now, boot from the bootable cloned backup you just made:
Reboot and hold down the option key continuously until the startup manager appears, select the backup, and hit return.
6. The Mac should boot from the cloned backup.
7. When you get to the finder, open disk utility.
8. Go to the view menu and choose "show ALL devices".
9. Now locate (on the left) the "top line" which represent your physical internal drive.
10. ERASE IT to APFS with GUID partition format
11. Quit disk utility and re-open CarbonCopyCloner.
12. Now, RE-clone the contents of the backup drive BACK TO the internal drive.
13. When done, power down, all the way off. DISCONNECT the backup drive and press the power-on button. Can you get to the login screen?
14. Login and look around. The windows partition should be gone.
Last bit of advice:
DON'T bother with bootcamp any more!
"Do you have a t2 chip Mac?"
How can I find that out?
" 4. If so, you must boot to the recovery partition and DISABLE "startup security". Do that first, then we're ready to continue."
How do I do that?
Save yourself a LOT of time this way. 5 minutes. Done.
Good luck!
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And yes. T2 chip Mac 16 inch MBP
See the linked Apple Support page:
Mac computers with the Apple T2 Security Chip - Apple Support
Learn which Mac computers have the Apple T2 Security Chip.
Steve686 how do you get into disk utility that has the option to reinstall the IOS?
Either restart your computer or turn on when off.
After you do so, hold COMMAND + R while the computer boots. It will take a bit of time but don't let go until at least after you see the white screen or the Recovery screen.
Then go to disk utility from there as there is a list of four choices.
You can also get to Terminal which you need by going through the menu tabs in the upper left of the screen.
After you do all the steps necessary to remove the container, you can now reinstall MacOS and the container will not take up space in your new OS.
I think the container sticking around after a fresh install of MacOS was related to the APFS encryption not allowing disk utility to repartition and erase it. Not sure but I think that's what the conclusion was.