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Running Windows on your Mac
removing a Linux Swap Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1108458" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>I believe the reason that Disk Utility is not working is because you may have overwritten your MBR with GRUB. Common problem when messing with Linux on a Mac. You may actually have 5 partitions on that hard drive. EFI, Mac, BC, Linux Home, Linux Swap.</p><p></p><p>Can you boot to OS X? If you can, you might want to make a backup of everything on the Mac partition and then just erase the entire drive and start over. If it still won't allow you to remove the partitions, post back. We can clear that drive of all partitions but you'll need a working PC and an external carrier to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1108458, member: 46727"] I believe the reason that Disk Utility is not working is because you may have overwritten your MBR with GRUB. Common problem when messing with Linux on a Mac. You may actually have 5 partitions on that hard drive. EFI, Mac, BC, Linux Home, Linux Swap. Can you boot to OS X? If you can, you might want to make a backup of everything on the Mac partition and then just erase the entire drive and start over. If it still won't allow you to remove the partitions, post back. We can clear that drive of all partitions but you'll need a working PC and an external carrier to do it. [/QUOTE]
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