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How to delete the Windows partition in Boot Camp?

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Imola Ghost

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I used Boot Camp to setup a partition for installing Windows. I no longer need the partition nor Windows. How can I delete that partition and make it useful for my laptop?

I'd like to have it as just one big hard drive rather than it showing up as 2 separate hard drives. I believe it's called extend the hard drive if I'm correct.
 
Boot from your Leopard or Snow Leopard DVD, run Disk Utility, click on the partition, click on 'Delete' (NOT 'Erase'!). Then you can resize the existing HFS+ partition to occupy the now freed-up space if you like.

If your Boot Camp partition is on an external HD, then you do not need to boot off a DVD. The DVD boot only applies if you're trying to edit the internal boot drive's partitioning.
 
Try going into the bootcamp assistant. Hit continue on the first screen and select "Create or remove a Windows partition" on the next and follow the steps.
 
I would do it through Boot Camp Assistant first rather than Disk Utility only using Disk Utility of Boot Camp Assistant fails which some have experienced.
 
Before I heard any responses here I went into Disk Utility and "erased" the Windows boot camp partition. I may have created more work for myself but...

Now when I go into Boot Camp Assistant I get this message:

The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
 
Xapphire13 said:
Did you extend the Mac OS X partition to fill the entire HD again?
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No I was waiting for a solution for above. I didn't know what to do. I still have my Snow Leopard partition [475gb] and the, now "UNTITLED" hard drive partition [25gb].

I still need assistance.
 
When I deleted my windows partition I didn't use bootcamp. I went into disk utility, clicked the window partition, then hit the minus button to get rid of it... dragged the Mac OS X partition to fill the entire HDD and hit apply... easy as that 😀
 
Xapphire13 said:
When I deleted my windows partition I didn't use bootcamp. I went into disk utility, clicked the window partition, then hit the minus button to get rid of it... dragged the Mac OS X partition to fill the entire HDD and hit apply... easy as that 😀
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I clicked on the Windows partition but I don't see a + or - sign.
 
its below the left of the partition box, see my picture for help, my mouse was hovering over it (screen shots dont pick up mouse) and the info box is visible
 

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thanks that did it. I was selecting the wrong partitions. I needed to be at the main part of the partition.
 
Xapphire13 said:
its below the left of the partition box, see my picture for help, my mouse was hovering over it (screen shots dont pick up mouse) and the info box is visible
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Please use Cmd-Shift-4 for these kind of screenshots. Add a space bar when mouse is over a window if you don't want to manually select the area.
 
eXan said:
Please use Cmd-Shift-4 for these kind of screenshots. Add a space bar when mouse is over a window if you don't want to manually select the area.
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But i wanted to show the location of the minus button by hovering over it...
 
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