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The Base System (& the potential 20 or so tiny volumes you may be able to see below that) are part of your current Recovery session. You cannot erase them - nor do you need to. They are ephemeral & wi …

It's a Core Storage volume [Logical Volume Group] - which I'd guess is either a Fusion Drive or FileVault encrypted drive. Either way, iPartition cannot handle it. Judging by the number of people wh …

Short answer, No - that's what encryption is for, to prevent anyone getting in who doesn't know the password.

Using answer space for formatting & 'comment size', I'm not sure this is really a full 'fix', but perhaps a pointer in the right direction. It can be updated/amended to get to the correct answer, if n …

It's dead. Smash it to prevent your data being stolen & throw it away. If a write error occurs, the firmware controller will switch over to read-only mode to prevent further data loss. This is to all …

Disc Utility isn't always the best tool for something like this. I would probably throw something like this at TechTool Pro, Paragon Hard Disk Manager or DiskWarrior* for a good 'second opinion'. I …

Deleted data goes to the Trash. Files in Trash are still considered as part of the total disk usage until the Trash is emptied. Trash does not recycle itself like Windows, though it has a 30-day timer …

Partition Map Type: MBR (Master Boot Record) You need to format the entire drive, not just the partition. APFS requires the underlying structure to be GUID, not MBR. As only Volumes are shown by …

Try erasing the entire drive, not just the volumes. In Disk Utility, Hit Cmd ⌘ 2 (or see the View menu) to show Devices instead of just Volumes. Select the overall drive you will now see over th …

Boot holding Command ⌘ R at the chimes to boot into Recovery Mode, run Disk Utility & Repair Disk.

That's how companies like Prosoft (Data Recovery), Micromat (Tech Tool), Cleverfiles (Disk Drill) & Alsoft (DiskWarrior) make their money. They each have different ways of protecting or recovering yo …

You may be [not] seeing the other partitions on the drive, Recovery & EFI, which will be contributing to that 'extra' space. Try enabling the debug menu in Disk Utility, then enabling all partition v …

In theory, exit code 0 means "No errors found, or successfully repaired" - though I don't know why it has then failed to complete & light the Done button. Exit code 8 was "A corrupt filesystem was fo …

This is the kind of task I would always have given to iPartition, however, it doesn't like CoreStorage drives [File Vault & Fusion Drives both use this format] & also it will break Drobos. You also n …

I'd think again about 'saving time'. While you're cloning it - however you do it - the chances are high that the work actually been done at the same time won't get cloned. To ensure it does, you'd h …