How to cut unwanted area (polygon) using ArcGIS for Desktop?

I am using ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop with a Basic level license.

There are two overlapping polygon. Polygon A (with line stripes) and Polygon B (in beige color). Polygon A and Polygon B is a separate feature class. Both feature class contains similar attribute column details.

Is it possible to remove all area in A and get the remaining area B?

I've been trying to use Union but it does not works.

Answer

I think you may want to do the following:

1. Union your feature classes A and B



2. Run Multipart to Singlepart on the result of 1


3. Select on the result of 2 where FID_fcA = -1