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Un-partition a hard drive?

I'mAMac

I'mAMac

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I've been able to find ways to reallocate space on my hard drive but what if i want to take windows completely off and restore my hard drive to purely OS X? Is there a way to do that also?
 
You have to, first, delete the Windows NTFS partition in Disk Utility, THEN resize. You can't immediately resize because MacOS X does not have built-in NTFS support.

The easiest way is to select the Windows partition, and partition it to MacOS X Journaled or really anything in the list. You can then highlight the partition, hit Backspace, and drag your OS X partition to fill the unused space.
 
Or you can run Boot Camp Assistant again and ask it to restore your drive to one large partition.

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balamw said:
Or you can run Boot Camp Assistant again and ask it to restore your drive to one large partition.

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Boot camp assistant won't run if the hard drive is already partitioned. 🙁

One more thing: I have an external HD which is linked to my XP partition. If I use that same hard drive (with the xp programs, games, etc.) with Windows 7 will it work? Or do I need to use winclone😕
 
The kernels of Windows 7 and XP are different. Depending on which confusing myriad of Windows 7 versions you've purchased, it may have XP mode.

I know nothing of what I just said, that's the extent of my knowledge of Windon't.
 
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