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<blockquote data-quote="obadiahorthodox" data-source="post: 1531279" data-attributes="member: 308836"><p><strong>deleting a windows partition Reply to Thread</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I opened up Boot Camp Assistant and clicked continue and a window popped open that states: " The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.</p><p>Back up the disk and use disk utility to format it as a single mac os extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."</p><p>I quit BCA and opened up disk utility and had a choice of two things, the top choice is called 120.03 GB ST9120822A... The second choice is called untitled, I assume that is where my Lion OS is located.</p><p>I clicked the first choice and all the buttons are greyed out. I clicked Partition, and there is a single partition and I clicked that button and and I had a choice of different numbers of partitions. I put it back to the current partition and left it alone.</p><p>The Partition Information is: Name: Untitled. Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled). Size:120.03 GB</p><p>The information below that is as follows: " To erase and partition the selected disk, choose a layout from the Partition layout from the Partition Layout pop-up menu, set options for each partition, and click apply. You can't resize the partitions on this disk because it uses the Master Boot Record partition scheme. This is the startup partition. You can't erase it"</p><p>All the buttons are greyed out.</p><p>I clicked the second choice and Followed the directions and clicked " Verify Disk" In the box it stated " verifying volume "Untitled". After it finished verifying the disk I got the message in green " The volume untitled appears to be OK"</p><p>I clicked Verify Disk Permissions and it started. I got the message:" Warning SUID file "System/Library/Core...s been modified and will not be repaired." I let it run its course and got hundreds of messages that stated :"Permissions differ on "System/Library/M...should be... they are..." </p><p>After 22 minutes I clicked "Repair Disk Permissions" and let that run its course.</p><p>After that finished, I closed everything and restarted my computer and tried everything mentioned above again. When I clicked Verify Disk Permissions I got the same warning.</p><p>So what should I do? I'm thinking about taking it to a Mac repair place where I live and have them see what they can do to get my system back the way it should be.</p><p>I'm also thinking of purchasing a Lion thumb drive and try to wipe my disk and reinstall Lion. I just want that confounded empty windows OS gone.</p><p>Thank you for your help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="obadiahorthodox, post: 1531279, member: 308836"] [b]deleting a windows partition Reply to Thread[/b] I opened up Boot Camp Assistant and clicked continue and a window popped open that states: " The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Back up the disk and use disk utility to format it as a single mac os extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again." I quit BCA and opened up disk utility and had a choice of two things, the top choice is called 120.03 GB ST9120822A... The second choice is called untitled, I assume that is where my Lion OS is located. I clicked the first choice and all the buttons are greyed out. I clicked Partition, and there is a single partition and I clicked that button and and I had a choice of different numbers of partitions. I put it back to the current partition and left it alone. The Partition Information is: Name: Untitled. Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled). Size:120.03 GB The information below that is as follows: " To erase and partition the selected disk, choose a layout from the Partition layout from the Partition Layout pop-up menu, set options for each partition, and click apply. You can't resize the partitions on this disk because it uses the Master Boot Record partition scheme. This is the startup partition. You can't erase it" All the buttons are greyed out. I clicked the second choice and Followed the directions and clicked " Verify Disk" In the box it stated " verifying volume "Untitled". After it finished verifying the disk I got the message in green " The volume untitled appears to be OK" I clicked Verify Disk Permissions and it started. I got the message:" Warning SUID file "System/Library/Core...s been modified and will not be repaired." I let it run its course and got hundreds of messages that stated :"Permissions differ on "System/Library/M...should be... they are..." After 22 minutes I clicked "Repair Disk Permissions" and let that run its course. After that finished, I closed everything and restarted my computer and tried everything mentioned above again. When I clicked Verify Disk Permissions I got the same warning. So what should I do? I'm thinking about taking it to a Mac repair place where I live and have them see what they can do to get my system back the way it should be. I'm also thinking of purchasing a Lion thumb drive and try to wipe my disk and reinstall Lion. I just want that confounded empty windows OS gone. Thank you for your help. [/QUOTE]
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