How to Completely Erase Hard Drive from Windows Partition

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Hi Folks,

It seems I have deleted enough of my OSX partition such that I cannot log into OSX by holding option while booting up. I am stuck with only windows. I would like to completely erase my hard drive and start over but don't know how to do this or get to disk utility up, If I put in the osx install drive it spits it out in the windows environment. How do just delete everything?

Thanks so much.

Will
 

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How about first telling us which version of OS X you have on the machine? If it's Lion or Mountain Lion, you can boot to your recovery partition and reinstall without any further erasing of the drive.
 
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I am currently running Snow Leopard, so I guess I can't follow chscag's option, but I appreciate that suggestion because I wasn't aware of that feature.

ThuyNga - I will let you know how this goes. Thanks.
 

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