Remove Parallels 3.0 and disk partition from Snow Leopard

[daytripper]

I had parallels 3.0 - never used it.
Got 10.6.2 - snow leopard
Found uninstall desktop parallels.app and wouldn't open
"show package" contents - executed uninstall command
rebooted
still have partition on which (what I guess is called) the Virtual Machine was with all the windows data and everything on that "computer"
I want to remove partition
how do I do that?

thank you

 

[gr8tfly]

Unless you use Boot Camp as the Parallels VM, there shouldn't be any partition to remove.

Parallels uses a virtual disk. By default, it should be in ~/Library/Parallels. The disk file should have the ".pvm" extension. They might have moved it in more recent versions, as I also seem to have another virtual disk in ~/Documents/Parallels. At least, you have a couple of places to look. Given you have Parallels 3, I suspect it's still in the ~/Library/Parallels folder.

Since you never used Parallels, there actually shouldn't be any virtual disk (except for the parallels tools disk).

 

[daytripper]

I "rarely" used it - not never.
Anyway, I may not be using the correct terminology, but under "devices" in my Finder is a "No Name" disk that has a directory structure below it which has everything in my "windows" computer: program files, windows, documents, etc. etc.

When I click disk utility "no name" shows up as a "disk" or "partition" or something.

Thanks

 

[gr8tfly]

I "rarely" used it - not never.
Anyway, I may not be using the correct terminology, but under "devices" in my Finder is a "No Name" disk that has a directory structure below it which has everything in my "windows" computer: program files, windows, documents, etc. etc.

When I click disk utility "no name" shows up as a "disk" or "partition" or something.

Thanks

In Disk Utility, it should show up under your Mac OS partition. Both partitions should show up under the actual hard drive device. Like:

320.07GB WDC WD320...

Macintosh HD
BOOTCAMP​

If you created it for Boot Camp, use the Boot Camp Assistant to remove it. It will delete the partition and recover the free space to your Mac partition.

Otherwise, use Disk Utility to remove the partition, then expand your Mac partition to fill the newly created free space.

It's highly recommended you have a backup of your Mac partition before making any changes to the partition table. It should be safe, but stuff happens (usually user errors).

 

[daytripper]

Thank You - I will do that tonight.

 

[daytripper]

wow that was easy - boot camp assistant did it - thank you again!

 

[gr8tfly]

wow that was easy - boot camp assistant did it - thank you again!

No problem - glad that helped!

 

[cloroxbleach4]

I have parallels on my macbook which I installed Windows 7. I decided to delete it and use BootCamp instead.

I'm still new to mac, so I deleted parallels by just deleting the files. (Correct me if I did it wrong)

But using bootcamp utilities it says it won't partition. I find that there is already two partitions on the harddrive by looking up the info in Disk Utility. How do i remove the partition without erasing all of my information?

Thanks.