Up until recently, I had my MacBook Pro's hard drive in 3 partitions: 2 with Mac OS X, and one as a Bootcamp partition. I recently decided that I no longer needed to Mac OS X partitions, so after backing up all the files in one of the partitions I went into Disk Utility and deleted that partition, hoping I could expand the other one to take the free space. Unfortunately, now I have this area listed as "free space," and while I can make another partition in that space, I can't expand my existing partition to take advantage of it. Is there a way for me to get this space back, or perhaps merge 2 partitions together? I'm just afraid of losing ~400GB of space. Thanks for your help!
Getting rid of "free space" partition
- Thread starter evanskis
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You can't do it with Disk Utility because you have a Boot Camp partition that can not be moved or altered. You need third party partitioning software which is somewhat expensive. Also, there is no guaranty that the BC partition will survive. iPartition $46.95
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