About a year ago, I installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp, which I now want to remove, but it doesn't seem to be done causing issues… When I go into the Boot Camp Assistant, I get this message:
My Disk Utility looks like this:
diskutil
list gives me:
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme 1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 912.4 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data Windows 78.8 GB disk0s3
4: Windows Recovery 480.2 MB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +912.4 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 474.7 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 20.5 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 517.8 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data Seagate 02 8.0 TB disk2s2
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *8.0 TB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data Seagate 01 8.0 TB disk3s2
What's the safest way to completely remove the partition/Windows? I'm just scared of messing something up. Thanks in advance!
Best Answer
The proper commands, to remove Windows and add the free space back to macOS, are given below. The commands should work unless there is a problem with APFS.
The next sequence of commands removes any Windows boot code that may exist in the hidden EFI partition.