O
O
olgamikks2016-06-13 15:54:23
Hard disks
olgamikks, 2016-06-13 15:54:23

How to delete an unwanted hard drive partition in OS X El Capitan?

Friends, in Disk Utility there is no way to delete an unnecessary hard disk partition in order to later merge it with the main one. What am I doing wrong?
Screenshots:
1. So to speak, a general photo:
289fc0ce33584bf188485ab445435ac5.png
2. This section is now the main one:
3113930e4dc54b019145239fc5330d44.png
3. Here it needs to be deleted:
9fad77ebae4b4444bd9ea656d4d1ff33.png
4. The delete button is inactive. Actually why? Through OS X Recovery, the same thing.
666208c12573413f9dd2c177f25967a2.png
Previously, this section was used as the main one. Installed a clean OS on a Macintosh HD yesterday. Today I formatted the old partition (Data), but I can't delete it.

Answer the question

In order to leave comments, you need to log in

1 answer(s)
A
Alexander Semchenko, 2016-06-13
@0xcffaedfe

Partition resizing is active, so what's stopping you from resizing the desired partition? You reduce the size of data to 0, then you increase the size of the one you need due to the empty space.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

Ask your question

Ask a Question

731 491 924 answers to any question