Removing Windows Partition

I didn't search the forums before posting this because my situation is specific.


I wanted to delete my Windows Partition and the Bootcamp Assistant was expired. So instead of setting back the clock on my calendar, I reformatted the Mac Partition.


Any gurus have any suggestions?

fastfoodknight,

Not sure I understand that your Boot Camp Assistant "was expired." How does it expire? I don't understand that.

But now that you have reformatted the Mac partition, I expect you should re-install OS X and then use the copy of boot Camp Assistant.app to delete the Windows partition. If that's still what you want to do...

Is that your plan?

Noel

fastfoodknight said:

I didn't search the forums before posting this because my situation is specific.


I wanted to delete my Windows Partition and the Bootcamp Assistant was expired. So instead of setting back the clock on my calendar, I reformatted the Mac Partition.


Any gurus have any suggestions?

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Why don't you reformat the Windows partition also, or just reformat the whole drive since you reformatted the OS X partition already? Actually when using Disk Utility, delete both partitions and recreate/format it all back as one.

Of course... if you've already reinstalled OS X, then it's too late (unless you happened to upgrade to Leopard). In which case you'll need a 3rd-party utility like iPartition to do this all non-destructively. Leopard's Disk Utility can do it non-destructively if you did upgrade.

Noels said:

fastfoodknight,

Not sure I understand that your Boot Camp Assistant "was expired." How does it expire? I don't understand that.

But now that you have reformatted the Mac partition, I expect you should re-install OS X and then use the copy of boot Camp Assistant.app to delete the Windows partition. If that's still what you want to do...

Is that your plan?

Noel

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He apparently is still running Tiger. The Boot Camp for Tiger was a beta, time-limited version. It expired when Leopard was released.

lifeisabeach said:

He apparently is still running Tiger. The Boot Camp for Tiger was a beta, time-limited version. It expired when Leopard was released.

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I guess that it is kinda flawed that apple did not allow the ability to remove a windows partition after bootcamp assistant had expired...

NPuter said:

I guess that it is kinda flawed that apple did not allow the ability to remove a windows partition after bootcamp assistant had expired...

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I agree. At the least, they should have upgraded Disk Utility so it could merge partitions nondestructively like the DU with Leopard can. I guess this was their way of nudging people to switch to Leopard.