MacBook – Did something wrong with partitioning the SSD

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I tried to make a partition for Windows on my Mac by using Apple's Disk Utility, because bootcamp already showed me that it didn't work for some reason. But now I'm stuck with a 70 gb hard disk, and I'm not capable of accessing the other part of the hard disk (I'm using a MacBook Air with 120 GB SSD).

I kind of expected Disk Utility to let me change the name and everything for this new partition I made (intended for Windows), but for some reason, the only thing that happens is that I can't access the rest of my hard disk anymore and there are no more partitions available.

I hope I've made clear what the problem is, I'm not a native speaker (as you might have noticed) so it's a little hard to write a question about a subject like this.

Here is the output of diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 732FEE77-68E5-4934-AEA2-EB01DE4EA90D
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

Best Answer

I once had a simillar problem, the disk verification in disk util shown minors errors, but it wasn't able to fix them. As such, I couldn't delete a fat32 partition. Here is what I did :

  • first i booted into safemode. The startup was long as it was fixing errors. (On boot, before startup chime, press and hold Shift)
  • after that i booted in recorvery mode (the same: on boot cmd+r)
  • when the recovery mode shown up, i did load the disk utility and deleted the partition. It worked this way.

However, You Should always do backups of your data, especially if you are messing with partitions

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