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Deleting boot-camp Win7 partition

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Xylian

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Sep 28, 2009
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Hi,
just a quick question.... creating and then removing a Win7 partition, restoring the initial single-OSX partition layout does not have any impact on my OSX installation, right? There should be no risk for my OSX installation, but I want to have your confirmation before proceeding with the installation of Win7 on my MBP.
 
Don't see why it would? i installed windows 7 just fine on my MBP using bootcamp and it works fine? both osx and win7 (when i decide to boot up in it)
 
Iif you decide to remove the bootcamp partition, is the OSX partition automatically enlarged to the original size?
 
Boot Camp Assistant will non-destructively create and remove the Windows partition, leaving your OS X partition intact. However things can and do go wrong, so you should always have at least one verified backup just in case even with non-destructive partitioning.

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balamw said:
Boot Camp Assistant will non-destructively create and remove the Windows partition, leaving your OS X partition intact. However things can and do go wrong, so you should always have at least one verified backup just in case even with non-destructive partitioning.

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I have time-machine backup and a full image of my HD made with Carbon Copy Cloner... a small OT question: if I loose my HD and reinstall Snow Leopard, then the Time Machine backup allows me to recover everything or only documents and settings (requiring me to re-install all the applications such as Photoshop etc)?
 
Xylian said:
I have time-machine backup and a full image of my HD made with Carbon Copy Cloner... a small OT question: if I loose my HD and reinstall Snow Leopard, then the Time Machine backup allows me to recover everything or only documents and settings (requiring me to re-install all the applications such as Photoshop etc)?
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Great!

In principle TM will allow you to recover the entire system. However last time I tried it from bare metal from the TM backup on my HP Mediasmart server, my iMac would not boot after the restore so I ended up restoring from my CCC backup.

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balamw said:
Great!

In principle TM will allow you to recover the entire system. However last time I tried it from bare metal from the TM backup on my HP Mediasmart server, my iMac would not boot after the restore so I ended up restoring from my CCC backup.

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Just another question about the restore procedure: let's say that I have a one month old CCC clone of my HD, and a Time Machine backup which is updated every week, can I restore my HD from the CCC backup and then restore more recent data from the Time Machine backup? What should be the procedure to follow in this case?
 
Xylian said:
Just another question about the restore procedure: let's say that I have a one month old CCC clone of my HD, and a Time Machine backup which is updated every week, can I restore my HD from the CCC backup and then restore more recent data from the Time Machine backup? What should be the procedure to follow in this case?
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That sounds like the right way to go. Is your CCC backup bootable or an image file? It makes life a lot easier to have some external device you can boot your Mac(s) off of instead of having to reinstall OS X from DVD.

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wat up guys im new to this site n i have a problem. i ran boot camp thinking i was gonna go buy windows and install it but i dont have the money to. i want to delete the 60gb partition but i accidently deleted the boot camp assisstant and i dont have the cd with the applications on it. so i any of you guys know how to fix it lemme know. i just want my 60gb back on my macintosh hd thanks. Nick:)
 
If you re-run Boot Camp Assistant, it should give you the option to remove the partitioned space for Windows and enlarge the Mac OS X partition to retake that space.
 
Grannyville7989 said:
If you re-run Boot Camp Assistant, it should give you the option to remove the partitioned space for Windows and enlarge the Mac OS X partition to retake that space.
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but i dont have the dvds with the applications on em so i was wondering if i could find the boot camp assisstant on the internet somewere?
 
Boot Camp Assistant is part of OS X. It should be found in the Utilities folder. Did you remove it?

If you don't have it, you can use Disk Utility to remove the partition and enlarge the Macintosh HD partition manually.
 
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