Leopard: Deleting a Boot Camp Partition

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon April 6, 2009  
Tag Icon Tagged: Mac OS X Leopard

If you have installed Windows using Boot Camp, the partition has eaten away at some valuable hard drive space. When you are done with running Windows on your Mac and want to regain that partition space you can delete the Boot Camp partition without affecting the data on your OS X partition.

1. Go to Applications, open the Utilities directory and select Boot Camp Assistant.

2. When the Boot Camp Assistant appears, click Continue.

3. Select the Create or remove a Windows partition radio button and then click Continue.

4. Click the Restore button.

5. When prompted, input your password and then click OK.

6. Boot Camp Assistant will begin restoring the disk.

7. When it has completed, it will notify you that the partition has been removed. Click Quit.

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  • luke3292
    I installed windows 7 onto a partition then i wanted to get rid of it. So I erased all the data off the partition and tried to use this method to delete the partition but this comes up
    "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."

    Can anyone help?
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