HOW TO: Delete a partition on Mac

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Learn how to remove a partition using the OS X Disk Utility in this easy to follow walkthrough. It's a good method to use when removing the El Capitan beta partition after you've finished testing it. Follow iDB on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/iDownloadBlog Like iDB on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/iDownloadBlog About iDownloadBlog: iDownloadBlog is an Apple Blog that covers the latest iOS, iPhone, and iPad jailbreak apps and tweaks. We also cover the Mac and Apple Watch.

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  1. just like that... it is always doing....
  2. Thank you so much!
    I was looking for that answer 2 hours!
  3. Thanks! You may of just saved my ass! Trying to sell my old MacBook Pro with a windows partition, Thanks Again!
  4. Nice, but how to do this in El Capitan ??
  5. Very helpful, thanks!
  6. Very straight forward and helpful! Thanks for the help.
  7. Hi Jeff... Please please help me. It's not removing the partition when I'm pressing the - sign. It just goes to "free space" on the format tab, keeping the partition in grey. It's not really deleted so I can't resize my primary partition! Do you know why this is happening? I would really appreciate your help! Thanks for the video btw
  8. why i get a " corrupted partition " when im trying to do this? im using macOS Sierra
  9. Real MVP.
  10. what do you use to record on your mac?
  11. Thanks man! Disk Utility doesn't look like this anymore though.
  12. Basic, helpful, gets to the point. Great video :)
  13. I got a problem with my mac book air. I accidentally created a partition by clicking the plus sign. Now it shows as free space and I don't know how to get rid of it. The deleting never works and i also can't drag down the space. Please help!
  14. Very helpful.
  15. Could you do the same tutorial but with the new disk utility please??? Can't find th way to delete my second portion.. Pleaseeeeee i would really appreciate that :)
  16. I had this error: Disk Encryption failed with the error:

    Couldn’t unmount disk.

    What do i do?
  17. thanks
  18. thank u
  19. Hey Jeff
    i'm not be able to delte partition in OS EI Capitan :/