How to remove the drive partition on macOS

When the capacity of a certain drive is too large and you want to share that amount for other drives, we can proceed to divide the hard drive right on the computer. In addition, in case the drive partition fails or you do not want to use that partition anymore, you can remove and delete the partition on the computer.

On Windows, we can delete a hard drive partition right on the system without installing other supporting software. So how to delete macOS partitions from MacOS?

Note to users that all data in the deleted drive partition will disappear. So you need to back up all that data.

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Step 1:

First of all, press the Cmd + Space key combination to open Spotlight and type the keyword Disk Utility press Enter to access. Or users can access the link Applications> select Utilities> Disk Utility .

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Step 2:

We click on the drive partition we want to delete on the machine in the list column to the left of the interface. Next click the Erase button at the top to proceed to delete the partition.

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Step 3:

A dialog box appears asking if the user is sure he wants to delete this partition. In the Format section, select the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format . Then continue to click the Erase button to confirm deleting the drive partition.

When the process of deleting that partition is completed, finally press the Done button to finish.

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Step 4:

Next, we will proceed to remove the newly deleted partition from the drive to free up the space that the drive used on the macOS. Also at the Disk Utility interface, click on the original drive on the left of the list, then click the Partition button in the options list above.

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Step 5:

A chart showing the capacity of each drive partition in use on the Mac appears.

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We will click on the partition of the newly deleted drive from the computer, then click on the button - at the bottom of the chart and then click Apply .

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Step 6:

The appearance of the small dialog box interface, you click the Partition button so that the system can completely erase this drive partition, and return the volume that the drive used on the computer. We are waiting for this process to complete.

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After the user deletes the drive partition on the macOS, you need to proceed to completely remove the partition to retrieve the previously used volume. Any data existing in the partition after deleting will completely disappear.

I wish you all success!