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I had the windows 7 beta on my boot camp with a 100gb partition, but now my bootcamp shows that there is nothing on there. It shows, "97.24GB of 97.03GB free." I was going to get rid of windows today because my w7 obviously doesn't work right without warning me about it being expired, but now this threw me a curve ball.

When I go into boot camp assistant, it says, "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows."

I want to be able to get rid of this partition and add a smaller partition.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I actually want to run ubuntu.
 
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I thought Windows 7 Beta expired August '09? :Confused:
 
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I thought Windows 7 Beta expired August '09? :Confused:

It expired some time ago, not sure the exact date, but I thought it was in august, it still worked but it gave me warning messages every minute. Last time I worked on it it told me to update, then it wouldn't load anymore. Kept on staying at the black start up screen. I don't care about it though, I wasn't going to buy w7 anyways. I just don't know what happened to this boot cam partition.

And though it did expire(not being able to download it anymore), if you had an installation disk of the beta w7, you could get the key online from microsoft for a long time after the exp. date. I think my recent key was downloaded in december.
 

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Open Disk Utility. Click on the HDD (not one of the partitions, but the HDD at the top of the tree) in the left pane. In the right pane, click on the Partition tab. Highlight the Windows partition, then click the '-' (minus) button. Then, drag partition 1 to use the entire disk.

Once this is done, you can use the Boot Camp Assistant to repartition, assuming the volume is clean.
 
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oh, I figured it out. Seems like I was trying to go to step C without first doing step B…stupid me. :) All is good!
 
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Open Disk Utility. Click on the HDD (not one of the partitions, but the HDD at the top of the tree) in the left pane. In the right pane, click on the Partition tab. Highlight the Windows partition, then click the '-' (minus) button. Then, drag partition 1 to use the entire disk.

Once this is done, you can use the Boot Camp Assistant to repartition, assuming the volume is clean.

yep, I had just figured it out. Thanks for your help and time though:)
 

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