How to delete your Mac Hard Drive and delete Mac Partitions 2021
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- Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024
- Are you running out of hard disk space and need to delete partitions on your Mac?
Are other guides you watched out of date? Welcome to the 2021 guide in how to delete your Mac Hard Drive and delete Mac Partitions.
In this video I show you how to make space on your mac by deleting partitions on it. I also show how to create partitions on your mac as well.
Furthermore I show how to delete your hard drive e.g wipe your mac hard drive clean as well. This will erase everything off your hard drive.
I use Mac OS tool; Disk Utility to complete these tasks
I am showing this video whilst running Mac OS Mojave on a Mac Pro 5,1. However this technique can be used on Catalina, Big Sur and on any supported iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.
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my partition button is still grey out so I cannot remove the partitions, help!
same here. anyone have a recent solution?
Thank you so much! I had 6 Macintosh HD partitions. I have no idea how rhey came to be! you just saved me from a big HEADACHEEE!!
I had the problem with one disk i didnt want and i wanted to remove it for months but this video helped me and i got it deleted tysm!
Thank You!!! Finally a simpler way to explain...
hi matt
I am seeing two hard disk on my Mac book air 2013 model while I was updating from os big sur to os high seira this happened Kindly guide me to solve this problem
thanks!!!
I upgraded from Big Sur to Mac Monterey and when I check storage, I have only a flash storage with 121 GB and only 5GB available!! Should I erase the 2 "untitled" drives? One is "Untitled" and the other is "Untitled Data" thanks!
I’ve been trying to remove a part ion without success. I’ll give it another go now.
Do you have any advice on moving apps to an ssd but leave files on the existing hd.
Think about this where excel is on the ssd but my spreadsheet files and workbooks are on the normal Hd.
Thanks in advance.
As a new subscriber, sir, I am now a big fan of yours. The way you give such accurate information really helps us a lot.thank you so much ❤
I’ve just been given a 27 inch iMac,I need to wipe the 1tb hard drive,I’ve gone into recovery mode and utility but the erase it grey and doesn’t do anything,I carnt partition anything because that’s grey and the 1tb is full,I wanted to run legacy core patcher but the hard drive isn’t formatted correctly to do it,I’ve got two macs and a Mac book all running Ventura with no issues so I know how to install legacy core patcher. I don’t know how to wipe the hard drive
hi, my container 1 is with capacity of 72 gigs but my storage capacity is 121 , how can utilize the remaining capacity.... i am using macbook pro with catalina on it...
hy bro , am stuck in wierd thing , i have 2012 mac mini quadcore .actually i dont where i was click but after my mac mini SSD500GB or macintosh HD 1TB both are merge and showing 1.5 TB , i cant find my ssd option in disk utility or at boot time , so i cant install new vantura with opencore in my SSD . will u help me.
i accidentally deleted my apple ssd. is there a way to restore it? i also dont have a time machine or backup for my files.
If you buy a macbook pro, format it with windows 10 so Mac is completely gone, are there available win 10 drivers for everything? I love that laptop but I have a deep hatred for the Apple operating system.
help for a partitioned external hdd minus(-) button cant be clicked
I am trying to erase the HD and restore, however, after getting as far as shift alt cmd R into the MAC OS utilities, I click into disk utility to erase the HD and I don't see the MacHD. I came out of all that and went into disk utility to see the main folder being ST31000528AS Media, followed bu container disk1, followed by MacHD and then MacHD data. I really don't know which I am supposed to remove to enable me to go back in to erase the HD to restore to factory settings! Technophobe I am, if you are able to give any pointers that would be great!
Thank you so much for clearing all doubts
I liked your video Matt because I appreciate and valued the information you shared in it, and you reminded me to hit the button at the right time, rather than asking before even giving any info. Good quality stuff Matt.
Tony B thank you very much
I am trying to reinstall after deleting it previously for a new owner for my laptop. Now I want to install the OS. It keeps on giving me error saying "an error occurred when preparing the installation".
Changed the date and time still nothing.
So I am trying to start from the beginning by erasing everything again. APFS is greyed out. When I choose Mac OS extended journaled, it gives me an error.
hi thanks for your informative video, However my problem is a bit different , I have a brand new iMac when I have attempted to first use it it has asked me to migrate, migration went fine however, when I had been taking to the password entry page I did entered my password however the wheel started to spin forever. I have contacted apple support but reinstallation of macaroni macOS happens but again it won't take me to the welcome page however it would pop a wrong message for which I need to do all above again and again . note I have an option to return it back and have a new one for 14 days from the day of shipment but that might take weeks to receive the new one ? I appreciate your support in this regard for good of anyone else in future maybe
Does this work on Catalina? I'm trying to erase my internal drive, NOT an external one, but it says "couldn't open device" (I've put a password on it--APFS Encrypted--but remember the code). I've even tried going into terminal and entering a wide range of commands to force the disk into either erasing, or opening, but to no avail.
What should I do? I want to sell this drive, but I can't do that with all of my old data on it.
I was looking for and now i found it . Thank you ❤
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Not workin!!! In Catalina 10.15.3 the minus button is disabled. After updating to Catalina , it have created "Macintosh HD" & "Macintosh HD" - data named partition. Can you help me to identify & remove unwanted partition from these ones??
I remember hearing that you could enter commands into terminal in order to do something similar, just wondering if anybody knows if this can be done, and if so how
Good video but tell me.........
I have a partition allocated for Parallels and Windows 10.
I want to remove Parallels, Windows and that partition, what would you say is the easiest way to do this please?
Regards and best wishes on your channel,
Dennis
In my case, the "partition" on my external hard drive is not called partition but "container disk3 500GB" .. and when clicking on it and later on partition, the "-" is greyed out .. any idea on how to get rid of that "container disk3"?
Dose it work on 2011 pro
What if you have 2 internal HD drives? One says Macintosh HD and the other Macintosh HD-Data? I don't recall why I created another HD... think they are mostly same stuff on each but can you explain how to remove one. Also, I formatted a thumb drive to Journaled but you mentioned AFPS being newer format. Should I format my new external drives to AFPS? Thanks, the video rocks!
RobLV007 it depends on what mac you have to know how to remove the hard drive.
Unless it’s a Mac Pro tower desktop (not iMac, MacBook or Mac mini) it sounds like a cd drive has been removed and replaced by another second drive
Matt Talks Tech it’s just a iMac purchased 2017ish. I have 2 log ins icon...for some reason made a second logon. I have 2 HD’s showing but one is Data. I should just be able to delete the other since they are essentially the same. Seems my system runs slow too.... Do u have a video on merging or deleting 2 Internal HD’s ?
How You clone the hole Disk with all Partitions with the Diskutility ?
Please help: I used El Capitan before wanting to try out Mojave so my Mac created an APFS Container which is the only thing I use now. Therefore i wanted to delete the old part to completely use my HDD but I simply can't make it happen. I deleted the old Macinthosh HD part but its now just empty space. I cant fully delete it or give more room to my Mojave APFS part. HELP appreciated !!!
Mackingtosh Hd is not showing I might have deleted by accident how do I regain it?
can you delete the Macintosh HD drive? i have bootcamp so i want to allow all of my storage go to bootcamp
Can one partition be deleted while keeping the data on another partition?
Thanks Mate..... the best video to learn how to partition HD's!
Great info. Was driving me nuts why I couldn't delete a partition of my Mac HD. All good now!
I have a partitioned internal running two OS X Half of the drive has high sierra which is HFS and the other half is Mojave which is APFS I have a new I Mac arriving soon and would like to merge both of these partitioned operating systems onto one Version of Mojave on my new iMac, of course it will come with Catalina or maybe even Big Sur although the latter is unlikely so I would roll back Catalina to Mojave For my Music digital audio workstation needs, how can I accomplish this without losing the programs during the transfer and have one single 2 TB SSD with one version of Mojave for all programs currently residing on my dual partitioned iMac.. I know I kind of rephrase the same question but I want to be clear, my Assumption would be to unload everything from the smaller partitioned drive onto an external and then delete the partition, do the iMac to iMac Vulcan mind meld thing and then reintroduce the programs from my external back on to the new version Mojave on the new machine but is there an easier way?
Thank u!! Helped a lot
This is a great video, I had this issue on a USB drive, this video has now helped me fix my USB drive. Thanks for this.
What if you can’t click the minus button?
Try again it should be avalible
i appreciate it Matt ,you help me sm
i cant click on the pertition tab,its faded.please help what to do
Thank you Matt, this is such a great straightforward and informative video, the best one I have seen on the subject. The thing I can't find any videos on is erasing/formatting a Fusion drive, only ones relating to mending split drives?. I am about to run my 2017 iMac off an 2TB SSD and I want to use the original 3TD internal Fusion drive to store my iTunes (Music/TV now) library and files. When I look in Disk Utility there are 3 parts to it - Container Disk2, Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data. If I remove these partitions will I be destroying the SSD part of the drive or is that integral and therefore protected? I want to completely wipe the drive, but have a small install of Catalina (maybe 128GB partition so I can boot from it if needed). Sorry for the long question ☺️ Thanks
Hi dude im new here First comment I hope you will be fine and you will see my comment and I’m a new subscriber and i have question when i Earse disk and Select format ApFs then They create disk container by default which take a lil bit space so how we will Reclaim it to main ssd drive or how we will remove it any method
Thank you brother helpful video
Thanks for the tutorial. I have "Other Volumes in Container" How to gain this space?
I have this doubt too. Did you found a solution?
@@Delmonda I used "Clean My Mac" and I saw now the other volume is gone! I'm not sure what I dod for that but I was removed some application and did several scan and di some other thing then it gone.
Thx buddy. That worked for me.
Great help.
Thanks Matt that was so helpful, really appreciate such informative content...
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@Enoch Josiah yea, have been watching on Flixzone for years myself :D
@Enoch Josiah Definitely, I've been watching on flixzone for months myself :D
@Enoch Josiah Yea, I have been using flixzone for since november myself =)
for me the minus button is greyed out?
Thank you body. U save my life.
No Problem, glad it helped
Thank u i reset my macos and gorgot about my bootcamp and now ive hotten back the storage from bootcamp to macos
My mac won't boot hence trying to use Internet recovery. But erase feature won't work 😒
Thanks you helped me well
Man , you saved my day :), thanks a lot !
Thank u so much it is very useful
Thanks dude! This helped
Helped a lot thanks
I deleted it by accident and I switched me to windows and I can’t go back to Apple can u help me please
Oh my god you are my hero thank you so much!!!!!!!
thanks, that was helpful !
Great video - Easy to follow and straight to the point. Subscribed!
Richard Nieves many thanks
Thanks mate it worked on Catalina
As soon as I click Partation my Disk Utility crashes... PLEASE HELP
THank very much this was very helpful. And right to the point.
thank you very good one
Please I need your help thanks.
Thanks For this bro ,... really helpfulness
No Problem, glad it helped
How do u re-download it
Thank you so much for your help.
Big thanks! You helped a LOT!
the minus sign doesn't delete the partition i have
so so helpful. Thanks
what if you cant hit the - button
Thanks 😊
Please help me I accidentally removed my macintosh partition when I was in boot camp please can you tell me how to recover it
Click command + R to reset your MAC and check them with connection.
title: in 2021
video: in 2019
is this will delete all the data ?
Nawaf H it will in that partition
Thank You ... you are a life saver....this is very informative.
Finally found solution thanks alot bro
What to do I deleted everything and now my Mac don’t turn on?
it made my year!.. thankss
Thank you Luka Dončić
hey brother I am unable to get all storage back. I don't know there are 3-4 partitions made by me by mistake. can't you please come in team viewer and solve my problem? thankyou
Thank you very much
Thank you guy!
Thanks mate ... Cheers 😊
why cant i press the minus?
Samee have you found a fix?
Thnks buddy !!
Thanks man
Can’t delete
Thanks Man! Much Appreciated,
Very helpful!
can somebody recover the files after you delete
I made a 750GB boot camp partition. Manually. Something went wrong when I tried to install Windows. I thought I would just delete the partition and do a new one and start over. I actually have 3.11 TB. I deleted them. How can I manage to make Macintosh HD, my "normal" partition completely large again, or make a new partition that is 750GB in size? Oh yes and where are my 750GB? : D
Thanks a lot!!!!
THANK U ❤️
Thanks
Thank you
Thx bro
Thanks u
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