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I've researched on the internet and a lot of people made this mistake. This disk is also locked, so I cannot re-install High Sierra (see picture 3).Īs the OS X Base System is the only thing left in the computer, every time I start it up, it does directly into the Recovery menu. In the Disk Utility, the options for erase, restore and unmount are all unavailable (see picture 2), I imagine that's because you normally cannot do any of these on the OS X Base System disk. This new disk image cannot be partitioned: when I hit the + sign in the partition screen, nothing happens. Hi! I had problems with my iMac and tried to erase the OS and re-install, but I did something wrong and now all I have is asingle partition with OS X Base System that is the size of my HD (1 TB), see picture 1.

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