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Removing the partition with Disk Utility by formatting the diskĭisk Utility will not display “Recovery HD” on it’s own because it’s a hidden partition, meaning you can’t just go into the app and delete it. The next approach is much more invasive because it formats the entire disk. This will merge the two partitions, with disk0s3 absorbing the space from disk0s4 and expanding, it causes data loss so don’t expect this to preserve anything.Regardless, you’ll now have a blank partition sitting around, so you’ll want to merge that with your other Lion partition:ĭiskutil mergePartitions HFS+ Lion disk0s3 disk0s4 The partition will be erased, you might want to do this with your standard Lion partition as well since you’ll be wiping the entire thing anyway.To remove that partition we use the following command (you can also use the volume name):ĭiskutil eraseVolume HFS+ Blank /dev/disk0s4.Look for “Recovery HD” and see which identifier it is using, it this screenshot it’s disk0s4.This will print out your drives partition scheme and look something like this:.

Launch the Terminal and type the following into the command line:.

This is the most precise method I know of to remove the partition since it targets the recovery disk directly and merges it with the full Lion partition – if you’re not comfortable with the command line this is not for you. We’ll cover two methods: using the command line tool diskutil, and using the GUI app Disk Utility.ĭeleting and merging a partition with diskutil from the command line There are a few ways to go about doing this, all methods will result in data loss which is the intention here, but I’ll point that out anyway. Delete the Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Recovery HD Partition Finally, if you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t muck around with partitions, diskutil, merging, or anything else, you could easily screw something up and lose all of your data.