Hi Mark, Thanks for that.
I need to get my head around the new disk utility interface, I still keep a Yosemite installer and installed systems on a USB that allows me to use the older style of disk utility. I guess it wont be coming back with the Mac OS Siera -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Saturday, 18 June 2016 6:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Update: Success in Deleting a Primary Disk Partition and Success in Creating a El Capitan Install Key Hello All, Well, I am happy to report that, after a lot of fiddling around, as I did not find any articles via Google that directly addressed my USB key partition deletion problem, I was able to delete the partition, create a new El Capitan USB install key which, I'm happy to say, runs without any problems. To me, the Yosemite disk utility was more intuitive. In El Capitan, it would seem that the Erase tab does all of the proverbial heavy lifting when it comes to reformatting and deleting the primary disk partition. The short of it is: When you want to delete a primary partition, you must select the physical drive in the disk selection table. Next, instead of going directly to the Partition tab, as I kept doing, go to the Erase tab and select how you want the disk to be reformatted; in so doing, you will erase the primary partition. To me, this is not intuitive. However, this is how it works, in El Capitan. All's well that ends well. I hope that some of you find this helpful and should you need assistance in using El Capitan disk utility, just let me know. Mark -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
