Cant Remove Hard Drive Partition | Mac
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Recently had to partition a hard drive in half. One half was used for a time machine backup and the other for the installation. Now im trying to remove the untitled (time machine) partition. Have erased the untitled partition but to remove the partition is always greyed out.
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Recently had to partition a hard drive in half. One half was used for a time machine backup and the other for the installation. Now im trying to remove the untitled (time machine) partition. Have erased the untitled partition but to remove the partition is always greyed out.
hard-drive mac partitioning
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Recently had to partition a hard drive in half. One half was used for a time machine backup and the other for the installation. Now im trying to remove the untitled (time machine) partition. Have erased the untitled partition but to remove the partition is always greyed out.
hard-drive mac partitioning
asked Nov 29 at 17:00
Tyler
187
Recently had to partition a hard drive in half. One half was used for a time machine backup and the other for the installation. Now im trying to remove the untitled (time machine) partition. Have erased the untitled partition but to remove the partition is always greyed out.
hard-drive mac partitioning
hard-drive mac partitioning
asked Nov 29 at 17:00
Tyler
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asked Nov 29 at 17:00
Tyler
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asked Nov 29 at 17:00
Tyler
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asked Nov 29 at 17:00
Tyler
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You can’t delete the first partition on the disk with Disk Utility, since it cannot move partitions. Instead, (make a backup, then) restore the partition with your data on it to the blank partition, then delete partition #2 and expand partition #1 to the rest of the disk.
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You can’t delete the first partition on the disk with Disk Utility, since it cannot move partitions. Instead, (make a backup, then) restore the partition with your data on it to the blank partition, then delete partition #2 and expand partition #1 to the rest of the disk.
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You can’t delete the first partition on the disk with Disk Utility, since it cannot move partitions. Instead, (make a backup, then) restore the partition with your data on it to the blank partition, then delete partition #2 and expand partition #1 to the rest of the disk.
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You can’t delete the first partition on the disk with Disk Utility, since it cannot move partitions. Instead, (make a backup, then) restore the partition with your data on it to the blank partition, then delete partition #2 and expand partition #1 to the rest of the disk.
answered Dec 2 at 22:53
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You can’t delete the first partition on the disk with Disk Utility, since it cannot move partitions. Instead, (make a backup, then) restore the partition with your data on it to the blank partition, then delete partition #2 and expand partition #1 to the rest of the disk.
answered Dec 2 at 22:53
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