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How to remove this Boot camp partition?

I have recently tried to install Windows on my Mac using Boot Camp. During the partitioning Boot Camp crashed. When I tried to remove the created partition via Boot Camp I got this message:



It looks like 2 new partitions have been created: OSXRESERVED (10 GB); BOOTCAMP (178,68 GB)



I have tried removing the partitions, but I get a message saying: "This volume cannot be resized."


When I enter 'diskutil list' in Terminal I get this output:



How can I go back to having only one volume? Which options are there? Will I have to reset my Mac?


I run mcOS Mojave 10.14.5 on an iMac (2017 model). (If that helps)


Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Aug 5, 2019 8:41 AM

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Posted on Aug 5, 2019 1:33 PM

You have a failed BC Assistant execution leaving partitions in a confused state, which it will clean up in some cases. In your specific case, given the current state, try


  • Step 1


diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4


diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s4

diskutil list


  • Step 2


If you see only disk0s3 as the last entry under disk0, then run


diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3


and retry removing the partition using BC Assistant only.

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Aug 5, 2019 1:33 PM in response to JadeJado

You have a failed BC Assistant execution leaving partitions in a confused state, which it will clean up in some cases. In your specific case, given the current state, try


  • Step 1


diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4


diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s4

diskutil list


  • Step 2


If you see only disk0s3 as the last entry under disk0, then run


diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3


and retry removing the partition using BC Assistant only.

How to remove this Boot camp partition?

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