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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1700660" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Is Disk Utility reporting any errors when you check the drive? If so, try and repair the drive first. Fixing those errors may solve the problem. You'll need to boot from the recovery partition to do that. </p><p></p><p>When you initially tried to delete the windows partition which program did you use first Disk Utility or the BootCamp Assistant? If you used Disk Utility first that may be the problem.Usually it is possible to run the BootCamp Assistant and let it recreate the Windows partition. After that you can re-run the BootCamp Assistant and delete the Windows partition the correct way. </p><p></p><p>If you cannot get the Windows partition using BootCamp Assistant then your best option is probably to clone your OS X partition, boot from the clone, then erase the OS X partition on the main drive. Stay booted from the clone and then you should be able to clone from the external drive you are booted from back to the original internal boot drive. </p><p></p><p>There are two caveats to this operation: </p><p>1. Make sure you have backs</p><p>2. Use Carbon Copy Cloner for the clone. It will clone the entire OS X partition including the recovery partition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1700660, member: 131855"] Is Disk Utility reporting any errors when you check the drive? If so, try and repair the drive first. Fixing those errors may solve the problem. You'll need to boot from the recovery partition to do that. When you initially tried to delete the windows partition which program did you use first Disk Utility or the BootCamp Assistant? If you used Disk Utility first that may be the problem.Usually it is possible to run the BootCamp Assistant and let it recreate the Windows partition. After that you can re-run the BootCamp Assistant and delete the Windows partition the correct way. If you cannot get the Windows partition using BootCamp Assistant then your best option is probably to clone your OS X partition, boot from the clone, then erase the OS X partition on the main drive. Stay booted from the clone and then you should be able to clone from the external drive you are booted from back to the original internal boot drive. There are two caveats to this operation: 1. Make sure you have backs 2. Use Carbon Copy Cloner for the clone. It will clone the entire OS X partition including the recovery partition. [/QUOTE]
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