u/KidEhy

Image 1 — Mid 2011 iMac Recovery HD taking up most of the space and blocking resize
Image 2 — Mid 2011 iMac Recovery HD taking up most of the space and blocking resize
Image 3 — Mid 2011 iMac Recovery HD taking up most of the space and blocking resize
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Mid 2011 iMac Recovery HD taking up most of the space and blocking resize

I was attempting to reset my old family iMac to repurpose it for other uses. It was giving me some trouble due to some weird partitioning that was preventing the 1TB hard drive from being usable in one partition.

Through my process I had deleted a partitioning assigning it to Free Space using the terminal. For whatever reason this memory was then assigned to the Apple_Boot Recovery HD partition giving it a size of ~750GB. When attempting to resize I am told that I cannot resize this volume.

In addition the diskutil UI is not allowing me to partition the Physical disk.

I have run repair on both the Disk and the Recovery HD volume and both are reported to be okay.

I am lost on to how I can recover the free space to be used in a new partition for running the computer on. I have attached some photos with info.

Please let me know anything I should try.

u/KidEhy — 4 days ago