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M$3 July 09, 2009 10:26 PM

OK, MACs. I am a PC trying to become a MAC. How do I get rid of BootCamp?

I fooled around with Boot Camp several months ago. I didn't like it at all.
I removed it but I can't get back the disk space.

The options in the Boot Camp Assistant are grayed out. It has an option to return it to a single partition OS X volume, but it will not let me select it.

The Disk Utility recognizes that the OS X volume is only half the drive but it will not allow me to change the size of the OS X partition.

I sure would like to recover that 200gb.
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July 09, 2009 10:29 PM
I haven't used BootCamp lately, so this might be a shot-in-the-dark, but it's worth a shot. Try inserting the OS X install disc and boot into it (hold C when you turn on your Mac), and select your language. After it says "preparing installation..." or something similar, you should see a menu bar appear at the top of the screen (if it asks you which hard drive you'd like to use for installation, you've gone too far). In the menu bar, select "Disk Utility" from the "Utilities" menu. Try resizing the OS X partition from there -- but pay close attention to the prompts it gives you, to make sure you don't accidently delete your main partition!

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July 10, 2009 06:48 PM
Nope. But thanks. That is the only thing mentioned that I had not already tried.
The Disk Utility recognizes that the OS X volume is only half the drive but it will not allow me to change the size of the OS X partition. It simply does not "see" the old boot camp partition.

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July 09, 2009 10:38 PM
Back up your OS X partition (a bootable clone using Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner would be best, but Time Machine will do OK, just resfore slower. Then use Disk Utility to repartition your drive into 1 partition, It should be Mac OS X Journaled using a GUID partition table. Once you have done this, you should be able to restore your backup disk to the drive. If you have used Time Machine, you can also boot from your Leopard Disk and it will give you the option to restore from a Time Machine backup, or running Migration Assistant will also give you the option to restore from a Time Machine backup.

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July 10, 2009 07:03 PM
Doesn't work. I can repartition the OS-X partition ( into smaller partitions ) but I have no access to the old Boot Camp partition.

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July 10, 2009 02:25 AM
Sorry. You'll have to wipe your hard drive and start over. Clone it with carbon copy cloner or super duper, then wipe your internal HD with the OS X CD (with one partition), boot from the external HD and use your utility of choice (CCC or Super Duper) and clone it back onto your internal drive.

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July 10, 2009 06:51 PM
Can't do. The erase utility only sees the current Apple partition. The option to partition it back to a single partition is grayed out.

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July 10, 2009 10:26 PM
Try a third party utility? Linux? Something should be able to reformat.

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July 13, 2009 02:43 PM
I agree something SHOULD be able to reformat.
The Question is WHAT?
I can't find anything.

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July 10, 2009 11:54 AM
Backup your files and then Re-install OSX from scratch.

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July 10, 2009 06:53 PM
Been there, done that. Got a brand new system. The the new OS X system is the same size as the old one. ( Does not recover the old partition.)

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July 10, 2009 12:03 PM
Bootcamp will "Restore your drive" to 1 volume... all Mac OS X
it, in one move, will completely remove windows, and the partition it's on. You can NEVER get it back once you've done this be certain you have all the files, from the windows side that you want and as a precaution back up all personal files / important files, on the mac.

Open the "Utilities" folder which resides in your "Applications" folder on your hard drive. Within it, you should see a program called "Boot Camp Assistant"

When you run Boot Camp Assistant and press "Continue", it will give you an option to "Create or remove a Windows partition". When you select that it will come up with a window titled "Restore Disk to a Single Volume"- click "Restore" on that window and the Windows related partition and data will be removed, leaving you with a single Mac partition on your disk.

good luck!

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July 10, 2009 07:00 PM
Nope. It has an "Option" to do that. That is how I got rid of Boot Camp the first time I ran it. It did not restore the volume to a single partition. Now the Boot Camp Assistant and/or the Disk Utility think the entire volume is the size of the old OS-X partition. Neitther of them can "See" the old Boot Camp Partition.

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