{"id":2989,"date":"2011-08-30T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:40:09","slug":"using-windows-to-remove-a-mac-os-x-efi-partition-from-a-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/using-windows-to-remove-a-mac-os-x-efi-partition-from-a-disk.htm","title":{"rendered":"Using Windows to remove a Mac OS X EFI partition from a disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old hard drive from my Mac is destined to find a new role in <a title=\"Building a low-power server for 24\u00c3\u20147 infrastructure at home: Part 1 (hardware selection)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/11\/building-a-low-power-server-for-24x7-infrastructure-at-home-part-1-hardware-selection.htm\">my low-power server<\/a> (hopefully dropping the power consumption even further by switching from a 3.5&#8243; disk to a 2.5&#8243; disk). Before that can happen though, I needed to wipe it and clone my Windows Server installation.<\/p>\n<p>After hooking the drive up, I found that it had two partitions: one large non-Windows partition that was easily removed in Server Manager&#8217;s Disk Management snap-in; and one EFI partition that Disk Management didn&#8217;t want to delete.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, it seems, is to dive into the command line and use <code>diskpart.exe<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pitumbo.com\/how-delete-gpt-partition-or-efi-mac-hard-disks-vista-or-xp\">After selecting the appropriate disk, the clean command quickly removed the offending partition<\/a>. I then initialised it in Disk Management, electing to make it an MBR disk (it was GPT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old hard drive from my Mac is destined to find a new role in my low-power server (hopefully dropping the power consumption even further by switching from a 3.5&#8243; disk to a 2.5&#8243; disk). 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