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unable to format harddrive
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1634380"><p>Well, you can boot from the internet and do a full repartition/reformat of the drive, wiping out both the BootCamp and OS X partitions and start all over. See <a href="http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4718" target="_blank">this Apple article.</a> But I'm with chscag that if DU says the drive needs to be reformatted, it's probably getting ready to fail and should be replaced. If you do that, then you can use the same internet recovery to reinstall the version of OS X that came with the machine originally and then from here update to whatever version you want. Once that is done, you can recover your OS X files from your backups (you DO have them, right?) and do a reinstall of BootCamp/Windows and recover those files from their backups (right?).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1634380"] Well, you can boot from the internet and do a full repartition/reformat of the drive, wiping out both the BootCamp and OS X partitions and start all over. See [URL="http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4718"]this Apple article.[/URL] But I'm with chscag that if DU says the drive needs to be reformatted, it's probably getting ready to fail and should be replaced. If you do that, then you can use the same internet recovery to reinstall the version of OS X that came with the machine originally and then from here update to whatever version you want. Once that is done, you can recover your OS X files from your backups (you DO have them, right?) and do a reinstall of BootCamp/Windows and recover those files from their backups (right?). [/QUOTE]
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