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• Is it safe to delete the partition OSXRESERVED? because it is still there after the installation of windows 10

  I recently got a MacBook Pro 15 "2015 model retina running MacOSX 10.11.5 El Capitan.

  My steps for installing Windows 8.1:

  Create a. ISO file from DVD installation disc and save it. ISO on a USB Flash drive.

  run bootcamp and run the. Location of the ISO on the usb flash drive.

  The SSD partition

  and then it reboot and the windows installer is on and I finish installing Windows 8.1

  then the program to install bootcamp drivers intervenes and installs the drivers

  then it restarts and I upgraded towing 10 Windows later and update the bootcamp drivers

  Then I start to Mac OS X, but the OSXRESERVED partition is still there.

  And when I restart by pressing the option key, I see 1 Macintosh HD but 2 displayed Windows disks

  Is it safe to delete the partition OSXRESERVED?  I read online that deleting it will cause 10 Windows do not to start over.

  Or should I leave it alone?

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• Recently, I deleted my partition bootcamp about 65 GB space. However, after that I restarted my MAC, the 65GB is lost! The total space in my HD is currently 434GB although it should be 500 GB! Anyone know how to recover my space 65GB?

  Recently, I deleted my partition bootcamp about 65 GB space. However, after that I restarted my MAC, the 65GB is lost!

  The total space in my HD is currently 434GB although it should be 500 GB! Anyone know how to recover my space 65GB?

  See below for my disk utility:

  

  

  Hello waynetay,

  Thank you for being part of the community of Apple!

  Looks like you want to recover the hard disk space that has been used by Bootcamp.  I know how critical disk hard space is, as I understand it want to access it.

  The Boot Camp Assistant should have added space on the side of Mac OS X from the hard drive when it has been used to remove Windows.  Since that didn't happen, you need to back up the system, and then erase the hard drive, then restore the backup.

  First, back up the computer.  Your computer has software called Time Machine.  It is a fantastic software for backing up your computer.  Information on how to use Time Machine is available here:

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac.

  Once you have the backup, you must erase the drive and then restore the backup Time Machine.

  You can use these measures to erase files on your startup drive and install a fresh copy of OS X:

  1. Before you begin, make sure that your Mac is connected to the Internet.
  2. Restart your Mac. Immediately hold down the command (⌘) keys and R after having heard the startup sound to boot into OS X Recovery.
  3. When the recovery window, select disk utility, then click on continue.
  4. Select the volume name back from your startup disk in the left side of the disk utility window, then click Delete.
  5. If you want to erase the disc safely, click Security Options. Select an erasing method, and then click OK.
  6. On the Format menu, choose Mac OS extended (journaled). Type a name for your drive, and then click clear.
  7. After that the drive is deleted, close the disk utility window.
  8. If you are not connected to the Internet, select a network in the Wi-Fi menu.
  9. Select the option to reinstall OS X.
  10. Click on continue and follow the instructions on the screen to reinstall OS X.

  Once OS X installation is complete, you should have the option to restore from a backup Time Machine in the first installation of OS X.  Choose this option, and the computer will restore everything that was on it before it has been removed.  More information can be found here:

  How to reinstall OS X on your Mac

  Have a great day!

• How can I delete a partition? Standard procedures do not work

  Hello

  Context:

  MacBook Air (mid 2011), version OS X El Captian 10.11.4

  128 GB SSD into a 70 GB partition (OS X el capitan, the name is "Macintosh HD") and a 50GB partition (used to be bootcamp, name is now 'B'). The 50 GB partition needs to go.

  I erased the 50 GB for OS X extended (journaled) partition, but when I click on the partition, I still can not remove it (the infamous "less grey", see picture).

  I can resize, Macintosh HD remains to 70 GB and a third made partition which in turn can be eliminated, but the space that he released is allocated in B again, which does not solve anything.

  

  By restarting on recovery mode and using disk utility it has not allowed for the partition to be removed either.

  As you can see from the image above, I also did an eDrive, where I still can't delete the partition of 50GB.

  Note: Filevault is turned off.

  I feel pretty silly since I managed to do it before on a previous version of mac OS... (at the time where I had to enlarge the bootcamp partition, but to do this I had to remove everything first, because of its format)

  Help me, apple community, you're my only hope!

  I believe that when you create a Boot Camp partition, it had to be removed using Boot Camp Assistant.

• Bootcamp deleted missing partition, but can not recover the partition space

  Tried to install 10 Windows via Bootcamp on my Mac. First, I formatted the bootcamp partition. Then I got the following message: could not create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup logs files.

  

  I tried five times with Bootcamp installed Windows 10. Then I advice to delete the partition and create a new. So I did. Still did not work. When I rebooted my mac, 50 GB missing as you can see here:

  

  I tried to restore the partition, but there is no possibility to do so, as you can see here:

  

  I read so many posts that I don't know what to do anymore. I don't mind factory reset my macbook, but it will restore my lost partition as I probably only erase the 450 GB instead of the 500 GB SSD?

  I read in several messages (this one in general: Bootcamp Partition missing during startup) that this information might be required, so I added from the outset:

  diskutil list:

  

  Cs diskutil list:

  

  sudo TPG - vv - r see the/dev/disk0:

  

  sudo fdisk/dev/disk0:

  

  
  

  I hope someone can help me restore my 50 GB, I lost. Even once, I do not fear factory reset my macbook if that's the best way to solve this problem!
  

  Can you use doesn't have windows via bootcamp 8.1 installation as reference to reclaim your disk space?

• delete the partition after a failed installation of windows 10

  Hello world

  How is it possible to delete partitions, if in disk utility, there is no possibility to click on the '-' key?

  So I made a failure (several) attempts to install windows 10 on my new iMAC.

  I could download an ISO of windows and start the bootcamp assistant.

  In the last attempt of last night, I selected the bootcamp in windows installation partition, however, installing windows said it was impossible to read the hard drive.

  I then re-formatted this partition (BOOTCAMP) in the installation of windows, and after that, still could not read.

  Then, I deleted the bootcamp partition in windows and re-created a partition on "unallocated space" in the windows installation.

  Installing windows 10 still wouldn't move forward then I've bailed out and went back to OS X with the hope of turning it back on (again) by deleting partitions.

  I was unable to delete the Mac partition.

  Then, I deleted this partition (the one original bootcamp) and reformatted as OS x journaled. At least now, I can see the Partition.

  However in Diskutil, I was then impossible to delete this Partition. There is also a small partition 16 MB that cannot be erased.

  Wizard bootcamp will be past a pop up station: the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

  So I will now try to delete these partitions (the boy and the training camp original one) merge into the original and give then installing bootcamp, another go when I have a lot of energy!

  any help would be appreciated. I'm a little cautious to use Terminal command lines for fear of ruining my new computer.

  concerning

  Evan

  1. your iMac has a Fusion drive?

  2. don't mix to disk utility and Wizard of BC. They can lead to a host of issues.

  3. If you do not typos in the Terminal, they provide much more rich in detail. You have a Time Machine backup, put in place?

  4 can you post the output of the following Terminal commands?

  diskutil list

  Cs diskutil list

  sudo TPG - vv - r see the/dev/disk0

  sudo fdisk/dev/disk0

  The "sudo" commands will prompt to enter your password, and there do not appear to come back. You can also see caution against improper use 'sudo' and the potential loss of data due to an "abuse" of the order.

• Help, please? I can't delete these Partitions OSX

  I can't delete these partitions of my macbook pro, can someone help please?

  All currencies and the readers are disconnected - I know not what/dev/disk1 is but the rest I'm just not sure what who or where it came from.

  -bash-3.2# diskutil list
  /dev/disk0
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
    2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
    3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
  /dev/disk1
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.3 GB     disk1
    1:        Apple_partition_map                         30.7 KB    disk1s1
    2:                  Apple_HFS OS X Base System        1.3 GB     disk1s2
  /dev/disk2
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *5.2 MB     disk2
  /dev/disk3
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk3
  /dev/disk4
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk4
  /dev/disk5
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk5
  /dev/disk6
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk6
  /dev/disk7
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk7
  /dev/disk8
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk8
  /dev/disk9
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *2.1 MB     disk9
  /dev/disk10
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk10
  /dev/disk11
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk11
  /dev/disk12
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk12
  /dev/disk13
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk13
  /dev/disk14
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk14
  -bash-3.2#
  

  You must use the disk utility to remap your partitions, while the drive is connected.

  Some partitions are partitions to restore using the restore of Mac OS X internet functionality.

• Toshiba-CD recovery deleted all partitions on satellite M50 181

  Hello

  After that I discovered that other images than the OEM Windows XP Image do not have driver for my laptop satellite M50 181 support, I decided to install the old Version-OEM.
  I had also installed a linux ubuntu, grub as boot loader.
  After you insert the recovery cd, there is no questioning what I wanted to do. The recovery process begins automatically delete all partitions and creating a large NTFS Partiotion ITERATE OVER ALL CONNECTED DEVICES (ipod, 500 GB backup drive).

  WHY DEVIL IS IT POSSIBLE? WHAT CAN I DO?
  Kind regards

  Cornelius

  After booting from the recovery CD, you should get 2 options;
  -Standard mode
  -Expert mode

  Using the Standard mode, the whole HARD disk will be formatted. Also al partitions will be erased.

  In expert mode, you may have chosen was the XP must be installed.

  I put t know what you did, but I presume that you have chosen the first method satandard

• delete a partition

  I have an external hard drive which had three partitions. My goal is to keep the contents of a partition on the disk and eliminate the other two. I deleted the partitions unwanted using disk utility but I can't well a way to totally eliminate the partitions. How to totally eliminate leaving them a disc without any partition.

  .

  I deleted the partitions unwanted using disk utility but I can't well a way to totally eliminate the partitions. How to totally eliminate leaving them a disc without any partition.

  Disk utility and repartition your hard drive 1 partition. You select the real drive, not no matter what partition under. Then click Partitions. From there, select the partition you want to delete, and then click the sign less. When you select a partition should be fired to blue. Utility disk in El Capitan is very confused.

  I guess your pie chart partition can do appear 3 partitions. Select one at a time, and then click the minus sign. When all 3 are deleted, SOME may appear as untitled 1 partition which should be all the space on your external drive.

• Delete the partition created in reformatting/reinstall for A50

  Then when I got my Toshiba Satellite A50, he had no partition that I knew of, just a drive C with XP installed on it. But the disk that it came with to reformat the hard drive and reinstall XP is creating a partition!

  So it's not the original or set up installation I've had... I have an external hard drive, I don't want a partition.

  How can I delete the partition? I'm ready to completely reformat the entire hard drive again, but if so, how do I that?

  The Toshiba CD doesn't really give me a prompt to go reformatting the hard drive me...

  The other annoying, that of my C drive is NTFS, but the disc creates a drive NTFS and FAT32 other... too... which is really scary, is when the Toshiba disk loads, it says "loading Windows 98"... to my understanding of my laptop NEVER had 98 on it... I pray that this is not a 98 - xp upgrade. It seems that someone gave me the wrong drive with my laptop computer?

  Or am I worrying over nothing?

  Hello Lou

  Believe me worry for nothing! Please don t be confused about W98 loading message. The unit starts in DOS mode and it's the same as on W98.

  Now step by step explanation: I did the procedure of recovery many times and have a little experience with it.

  When starts, CD recovery menu displays with two options: modes of STANDARD facilities and EXPERT. STANDARD mode simply erase the whole HARD drive and creates one partition (the whole HARD disk capacity) for the installation of the OS.
  EXPERT mode should be used if you want to install the operating system on already created partition or if you want to create a new partition for the installation of the OS. Note You can create only the first partition it (C :) and you can not edit already created the partition.)

  In my opinion, it is always good to have two partitions, one for the operating system and installation and a second for recording data. You might not always drive external HARD with you. If something is wrong at any time, you can install the OS on the first partition without losing the data stored on the other.

  Anyway, to start the recovery procedure and choose the recovery STANDARD (option 1) procedure. The whole HARD drive will be formatted and Os will be installed on a partition.

  Bye and if you have any other questions please write again.

• Recovery of a Satellite A100 (PSAA9) - deleted the partitions and XP Home no Pro

  We have recently had trouble with our laptop and decided to restore the settings from the manufacturer with the recovery CD from Media. My son decided to do when he started the program, he chose the option to delete the partitions the crash

  Now, he has completely formatted the HD remove the operating system (Windows XP Pro).
  When I bought the laptop, with what he came already installed WXP Pro and comes from the Certification sticker on the bottom of the laptop.
  Is there anyway I can receive an installation of Windows XP Pro CD?

  Generally, all models of Satellite laptops are delivered with the operating system Windows XP Home edition or Media Center Edition home. Toshiba's Satellite Pro series, and under this name, you can get WXP Pro operating system.

  Can you tell us what model you exactly A100-xxx?

  If your laptop has been in the showroom by the dealer, it is possible they are using clean installation of OS instead of supplied recovery media.

• You can delete a partition on Equium A200 without losing your OS?

  I have an A200 Equium with a partition on the disk hard drive is possible to delete the Partition without losing the Vista OS

  Can you please tell us what you mean exactly? What partition say you exactly?

  Please open computer management, and then click Disk Management. On the right side you will see the status of your HARD drive and all available partitions will be displayed here.

  At first he is shown with 1.46 GB of capacity (EISA Configuration) partition this partition belongs to Vista and please do not do something with it. There must be also the C for pre-installed Vista OS partition.

  Is there another partition (something like main D Partition)?

• How to delete the partition CDFS on PX1267E - 1 32?

  Now how can does anyone I delete the partition on that disk (PX1267E - 1 32) CDF?
  I want this disc using as an external USB without the CDFS partition hard drive.
  I do not use the REGEN backup software.

  Is this possible? I've tried several programs to delete this partition, but now, we did get the job done.
  Thank you

  Hello

  To be honest I ve no experience with these external hard drives, but generally the scores of all would be removed from the HARD drive if you want to format the HARD drive.

  Try to format it!

• I want to delete the partition recovery of 1.5 GB of my Satellite A100-786

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba Satellite A 100 - model 786. There a 120 GB.n HARD drive which 1.5 GB isa configuration partition factory and the reast is for my use, I guess its for Win Re... .but I do not have wsant this partition wat I do haveto do. I used disk management but this 1.5 GB remain unallocated and he does not even gets extende. Pls advise.

  Thank you

  Moosa Anis

  Hello

  why you want to delete this partition? Because of the extra hard drive space you will win? The cost of a system of recovery very nice and comfortable, which is really good? See, if your system has serious problems and you want to recover your machine, what will you do then?

  So if you're really sure you want to do, then do as following described:

  Enter a cd image of the windows-live-cd 'UBCD4Win"(http://www.ubcd4win.com/), cd burning, start, and change your partitions with it, should work withour problems.

  Welcome them

• Can't find/delete Bootcamp Partition

  Tried to use bootcamp to create a partition for my copy of windows, that I just got. He was suspended for a while creating the partition, so I force-quit it as several users online said to try to resolve the situation. Tried then to find and delete the partition, he tried to create. Ended up crashing the disk utility or something so I force restarted the computer to see if that helped. Now I can't find the partition on the disk utility at all, it shows the drive as having 1 TB less than expected (the size of the partition, I created or attempted to create), and he does it for some reason, introduce yourself when I press 'alt' on my keyboard on the computer.

  Is there a way to delete this partition and try this again without any reformatting my hard drive and restore from backup? I have a time machine backup, I don't want to wait 12 hours for 1 TB of data to be transferred...

  Please see the solution in doesn't have windows via bootcamp 8.1 installation .

• deleted recovery partition - but not additional disk space?

  Hi all

  I recently bought a HP pavilion x 2. My first job has been upgraded to Windows 8.1, which she leaves me until I have 20 GB of available. It is at this time, I realized just how much the memory of 64GB has been taken over - including a 15 GB recovery partition - odd.

  So, next work was to remove that. I have created a backup according to the instructions and deleted the partition by using the HP Recovery Wizard. However, the total memory usage is not passed down. I'm now 18GB total free on a drive rather than 16 GB on a partition and 2 GB on another partition (raw numbers). This suggests that recovering the files themselve have not been deleted. I think I found the recovery of files in the appdata/temp folder (4 x 4 GB file which seems to live up to those on the recovery disc).

  So my question is: is it safe to delete these files? Is there an 'official' way to make using the hp recovery tool, that I would like to delete all files recovery which are now obsolete because I have an external backup, not only the large memory those?

  In addition, can provide advice on which programs are "secondary market" and therefore safe for me to uninstall I should consider their Needless to release me until a short memory. I realize how fickle computers can be when you try to get rid of things pre-installed.

  Can't find this on the forums, but apologies if this has been asked before.

  Any help appreciated. Thank you.

  Hello

  Given that you have created a backup copy according to the instructions. It should be ok to remove the partition recovery (already deleted anyway) so very sure to remove all the files KNOWN.

  Kind regards.