Cannot remove bootcamp partition

Unable to remove Bootcamp partition using Bootcamp Assistant, which reports 'unable to partition drive' Drive is SSD

Using the BootCamp Assistant is recommended because usually the correct way to remove your Windows partition is to use the BootCamp Assistant again which should give you the option to remove the made Windows partition and revert back to one OSX volume.
After that's done a reboot of your Mac might be advisable.
Only if that's not working (whatever the reason) :
1) boot your Mac from your OSX install DVD
2) choose your language and then 'ignore' (cancel) the installation
3) from the Top Menu (Utilities) start Disk Utility (DU)
4) in DU click on your harddisk (not any partition) in the left pane (the first item listed)
5) in the right pane use the 'Partition'-Tab
6) click to highlight on the ex-Windows partition you want to delete
7) click on the small '-' Button at the bottom
That should delete your former Windows partition
After that's done successfully
8) Drag the partition separator line until it encompasses the entire drive and then select apply.
9) Quit Disk Utility
10) reboot your Mac from your harddisk.
Since you are 'fumbling' with your OSX partition you should consider having/making a backup of it before trying the a.m. procedure. Just in case.
Stefan

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I cannot remove bootcamp partition on Snow Leopard

Hi everybody.
I have an iMac 20" early 2009 running Snow Leopard. A few months ago I've used the Boot Camp partition to install OS X Lion, just to test it before upgrade the OS. Everything's gone fine, but now I want to remove the Boot Camp partition and seems to be impossible. I've tried all the things I've read from every forum. The first, and simpler one, is to use the Boot Camp Assistance again.... but when I reach the "donwnload-software-or-have-a-CD-or-DVD" window, and select any option, another window appears that says something like: cannot partition the start up disk or restore it in just one partition. The start up disk must be format in one volume Mac OS Plus (journaled).... And that's exactly how my start up disk is. It's formated with Mac OS Plus (journaled) and the partition I want to remove was created via Boot Camp...
Does anyone knows what should I do?
Thanks so much.
Gonzalo

Using the BootCamp Assistant is recommended because usually the correct way to remove your Windows partition is to use the BootCamp Assistant again which should give you the option to remove the made Windows partition and revert back to one OSX volume.
After that's done a reboot of your Mac might be advisable.
Only if that's not working (whatever the reason) :
1) boot your Mac from your OSX install DVD
2) choose your language and then 'ignore' (cancel) the installation
3) from the Top Menu (Utilities) start Disk Utility (DU)
4) in DU click on your harddisk (not any partition) in the left pane (the first item listed)
5) in the right pane use the 'Partition'-Tab
6) click to highlight on the ex-Windows partition you want to delete
7) click on the small '-' Button at the bottom
That should delete your former Windows partition
After that's done successfully
8) Drag the partition separator line until it encompasses the entire drive and then select apply.
9) Quit Disk Utility
10) reboot your Mac from your harddisk.
Since you are 'fumbling' with your OSX partition you should consider having/making a backup of it before trying the a.m. procedure. Just in case.
Stefan

Cannot delete bootcamp partition/free space on HD (OS X Mavericks)

I am having trouble removing a bootcamp partition made a while ago. I thought removing this partition would be as simple as using disk utility to delete the partition, and extend the Macintosh HD partition back to its original size.
However, after clicking the minus sign using disk utility I am now left with 51.24GB free space where the bootcamp partition used to be and cannot seem to do anything to bring the hard drive back to one single partition.
I have tried using boot camp assistant, which is useless. I have to tick either "Install Windows 7" or "Download the latest Windows support software from Apple", and when I click to install windows 7 (which below says it can be used to remove an existing windows partition), it only lets me re-size the Windows partition to a smaller 20GB size. It does not give me the option to remove the partition like it says it does on the first page and like I have seen on examples online (which I am sure are from previous OS X versions).
I have tried going to disk utility when booting from the recovery disk, however this does not give me the option to erase the entire disk then start again from a time machine backup; it only gives me the option to erase my current 268.48GB Macintosh HD partition, which wouldn't be any use.
I have verified the disk and all seems ok. I am running OS X 10.9.1 on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro. 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Memory.
Any help appreciated as I am running low on HD space on my mac and the extra 50 GB that I can't seem to free up would be very useful.

Give this a try:
Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your external hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
            if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This will install the default version of OS X that came with your computer if it came with Lion or later. If it came with Snow Leopard, then you must do this instead:
Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

Upgrading MacBook Pro Hard Drive - cannot get Bootcamp partition to work

Hello,
The other day, I decided to replace my 320 GB hard drive with a 1 TB hard drive/SSD hybrid. I did a little bit of research about cloning the drive before that, and it seemed pretty straight forward to clone the OS X partition, but I wasn't really sure about cloning my Windows partition. Originally, my 320 GB hard drive had 2 partitions: 220 GB for OS X Mavericks, and 100 GB for Windows 8.1.
I bought the new drive with an external enclosure and plugged it in. The first thing I did was open Disk Utility and partitioned the new hard drive (750 GB HFS+, 250 GB NTFS). I figured I would need to partition it first and clone each partition separately. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS X partition, and it worked with no problem (I immediately could restart my computer and boot with the partition on the new drive, while it was still plugged in by USB).
Next, I tried using CCC to clone the Windows partition the same way (I realize now that CCC cannot do this). 7 hours later, the cloning was complete, but there was an error that a couple files couldn't be copied. I tried copying them manually but it didn't work. I wasn't sure if the Windows partition would work, so to find out, I switched the hard drives and put the old 320 GB one in the external enclosure. I booted my computer and it booted the new OS X partition with no problem. It also mounted the Windows partition that I cloned with CCC, and I can access all of the files in it. However, when I restarted and held down "option", it would not let me boot the Windows partition.
After some googling, I realized CCC is not able to clone a bootcamp partition and make it bootable, so I opened disk utility and deleted the Windows partition (using the minus button), then recreated it (using the plus button). I downloaded Winclone (paid $30), which supposedly can clone a bootcamp partition. I opened Winclone and it seemed pretty simple: you just choose the source partition on the left, and the target on the right. I plugged in the USB enclosure with my old hard drive, and in the Winclone menu the original Windows partition popped up. I chose that as my source, and chose to copy it to the new NTFS partition on the new drive that I created. I left it on overnight, and when I woke up it said it was completed.
I now had two drives mounted: my NTFS partition that I created, and a new one that said "EFI". I have no idea what EFI is. My NTFS partition looks like it has all of the files from my original Windows partition on it; however, when I restart it does not allow me to boot with it, although I now have the option to boot EFI. When I select EFI, I am given the Windows 8.1 start up screen (with the blue Windows logo), but then an error message pops up saying something like there is an issue and it needs to restart (it restarted before I could read the whole thing).
When I boot in OS X, I only have the NTFS partition (with all my Windows files) mounted, and no EFI. When I restart, I can still boot EFI, but I always get the same message and then it restarts.
Is there any way I can fix my Windows partition so that it works the same way it did on my old drive? What is EFI? Can I delete it? How can I make the NTFS partition, which seems to have all of my files, bootable? I only want 2 partitions: one for OS X, and one for Windows. Also, can I do all of this without having to reinstall either of the operating systems?
Thanks

Hmm, that's a good question!
I headed over to the twocanoes website (the folks that make Winclone) and their guide mentions something about running Sysprep before you create the Windows image. If you skipped that step, that may be why you're having issues
http://www.twocanoes.com/support/winclone/migrating-a-bootcamp-partition-with-wi nclone/
Step 24 in that guide also mentions copying a Boot file - were you able to/did you do that?
You may have better luck over in the Bootcamp forum, which is here.
~Lyssa

Do I need to remove Bootcamp Partition before restoring with Time Machine

Hello - anyone familiar with this scenario.
I have used TIME MACHINE from the very first day I had my iMac. So it was started almost immediately after the initial boot of a brand new iMac case I ever needed to restore my Mac to that initial Day 1 state.
That day has come, but it's now two years, and in that time I have installed BOOTCAMP, Parallels and Windows 7. That process created another partition, and created the required 'links' between my OSX and Windows via Parallels etc.
So my question is this - can I do a 'Restore from Time Machine' over the top of the new partioned set up of my iMac OR or will it be now totally confused because of the changes I have made to my system in that time, and do I firstly need to remove Windows, Bootcamp, and erase the partitions I created back to one.
So in summary - will Time Machine do this when it restores, or do I need to do it before I restore?
I also have a CARBON COPY CLONE from Day 1 too. Am I better using that instead - and if so, same question - will i need to remove Windows, and my Bootcamped partion first?
(My system is iMac late 2012 still running OSX Mountain Lion if that makes any difference)
Thanks

popsynic wrote:
Hi - thanks for responding
"Is Parallels using the BC partition as a VM, or is it a separate VM with its own virtual disk?"
I don't know - basically I have a BOOTCAMP partition and Windows is installed on that (using these instructions from the Parallels website) I can then either open up Windows from in OSX Moutain Lion while keeping my mac running (and windows will run in its own little window - but within OSX. OR I can also choose to boot dircetly wi windows when I tuen on my MAC - and then it runs independently of my OSX.
You are using the BC Windows and running it as VM. There is no separate VM with virtual disk.
"Are you planning to erase the internal drive(s)?"
I wasn't sure - I want to restore my iMac like it was on the day I had it, before I partitoned BOOTCAMP and installed windows. So my question is, will the TIME MACHINE restore get rid of WINDOWS and the BOOTCAMP partition for me as part of its restore - or do i have to that, and then restore using Time Machine
It is much simpler to run BC Assistant and use the last option - "Remove Windows". It is a bit cleaner.
"If the backup on TM which started on Day 1 has continued as you have made changes, including BC/Windows/Parallels, it has continued to backup OS X and partition information. I suggest you backup Windows using Windows Backup to a separate external drive formatted as NTFS, and also consider Winclone or CampTune for a OS X compatible BC backup, if you run into any issues."
As above, I am not bothered about keeping Windows or the BOOTCAMP partition, I want to resore my iMac to the DAY 1 status - when I did my first full Time Machine backup - which was before I created a Bootcamp partition or installed Windows.
I suggest removing Windows via BCA and backing up to Time Machine. You will keep you OS X intact and keep all your files on the OS X side.

Regaining lost space after error when removing Bootcamp partition?

     I am running snow leopard 10.8.2 and had a bootcamp partition of 115gb for Windows 7. Recently I tried to remove the partition using the bootcamp assistant and it displayed an error message that it was unable to remove the partition, however the icon for the partition disappeared in finder and the startup disk menu. I tried to remove the partition again in the same way and this time the error message did not come up, but the utility froze while it was removing the partition and after waiting for an hour or so I had to force quit the utility and restart my Mac. The bootcamp partition doesn't show up, but I did not get the 115gb back? Any ideas how I can reclaim it? Any help is much appreciated!
-Ethan

Notice the 76GB Free Space in the diskutil cs list output.
Unless Kappy has alternative suggestion, I suggest the following (the last 'b' is bytes).
diskutil cs resizeVolume <UseTheLongStringUUIDAboveTheMacintoshHDLine = DB68...> <UseTheSizeInBytesUnderTheLogicalVolumeGroupEntry = 250140434432b>
diskutil cs resizeVolume
Usage: diskutil coreStorage resizeVolume
        lvUUID|MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode size
Resize a logical volume, which is one of one or more disks that consume storage
out of a logical volume group. The logical volume group will have more or less
available space after this operation, if it was a shrink or grow, respectively.
Example: diskutil coreStorage resizeVolume
         11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 10g

Can't remove bootcamp partition

Hi all, I have a late 2012 27 inch iMac with a fusion drive. I have attempted to bootcamp Windows 8 following various posts here and elsewhere. Short story - its failed on each and every attempt, and now it seems as though I am stuck with a dud bootcamp partition.
I created a windows install USB for windows 8 and later windows 7 and created a bootcamp partition with the bootcamp assistant. The USB key was created without error. But when the system rebooted to start the Windows installation I got a message saying there was 'no boot device'. I tried various fixes including using rEFIt and creating the USB stick using microsoft's tool. Nothing has worked.
I would like to delete the windows partation and start again (don't know if this will make a difference, nothing has worked so far). I have tried to remove it with the bootcamp assistant (ticked the "Remove Windows 7 or later version" tick box), no go, just get a blue and white striped status bar. Tried in Disk Utility, also no go.
Just don't get why bootcamp installation is so painful and time consuming. Any advice on removing the dud bootcamp partition welcome. Any tips about which USB devices are suitable for Bootcamp would also be appreciated.
Thanks.

stevec1234 wrote:
I wonder how / if the right files will go to the right disk within the fushion volume (ie system files to the SSD) when cloning back with Carbon Copy Cloner. It's supposted to 'just work', but then so is bootcamp...
They should, but let us know if they don't. Please remember that the actual location of any file is decided by the OS.

HT4818 remove bootcamp partition

At one time I set up bootcamp to use Windows Xp. I had partitioned my HD. How do I remove that partition? I am running Mountain Lion OS.

I just started bootcamp assistant and just choose it. But here is a guide i found, Mountain lion looks a bit differnt but almost the same.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3955314?start=0&tstart=0
So just go to Applications then in Applications go to the Utilities folder, inside the folder you got Bootcamp assistance. Just start it and it will recognize your partition, and you can do it like i did.
When i did it i just got one option, "remove windows 7 partition".
//Jonathan

Removing Bootcamp Partition

Hi, I am having a problem removing the windows partition. I went through the bootcamp removal tutorial and everything seemed to work ok. But after the resart the partition was still there and now I cant get rid of it. I have tried ejecting it and that does not work either. Any way I can get rid of this? I need the extra space.

you need to redo the GPT partition table.
if bootcamp wont do it then you will have to do it manually from the command line, this is all bootcamp is doing anyway, just from a GUI.
first list the drives
diskutil list
this will give you a list of the partitions, you will need to resize the apple hfs partition.
diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 10G HFS+
disk0s2 being your mac drive from the above list
10G being size you want to expand to, total size of partition you want
HFS+ being filesystem
that should do it, or you can erase the dos partition and then grow the mac on into its free space, i cant try this out on my mac as i dont want to reformat, if theres and error it will tell you.
This only works on GPT drives and HFS+ filesystems

Cannot add bootcamp partition to my new HD in MacBook Pro (4,1)!!

Hi Folks,
I used to be able to add a partition to my boot drive from either BootCamp or Disk Utility but since I've installed my new HD, Bootcamp Asst informs me that my software is not up-to-date and Disk Utility has the options greyed out!!
Anyone have any ideas how i can sort this out..?
ps. the new HD = Seagate Momentus 7200.4 Laptop 2.5 inch Hard Disk Drive 320GB SATA
7200rpm 16MB (Internal) (ST9320423AS)

Well, after some head scratching i thought about where my problem started and it turns out that i had to re-restore from my SuperDuper clone (which i'd done in the first place)! There must have been a problem the first time i restored!
I booted from an external HD, reformatted and restored from my clone. All is now good.
Thanks for the firmware advice. Seems I might also need to do this too.

Lost Space(available) After Removing Bootcamp Partition

While i tried to remove my windows partition it came up with an error.. Now i have a HDD thats divided.. I hope u guys can help!

The simplest option is using a Time Machine. Since you have FV2, you may want to temporarily turn it off for this exercise - OS X Yosemite: Turn off FileVault encryption.
1. Backup using TM - Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac - Apple Support
2. Run Internet Recovery and erase your internal drive - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
3. Restore - OS X Yosemite: Recover your entire system
If you do not have an external disk large enough for your backup or TM set up, then using Terminal commands is the more complicated option.

Cannot find Bootcamp partition on restart

Hi everyone,
I have successfully partitioned and installed windows operating systems on the Mac platform before. But recently on my 13" MacBook Pro, when I partition the drive using bootcamp, this all goes well and asks to start installation. But when the windows files have been read from the disk and it asks to use a partition the "Bootcamp" labled partition is not there.
Thanks

Ok, so far so good. So we're going to create a new hybrid MBR with different parameters than your present one.
In gdisk terminal type
r then press enter - to take you to the recovery menu
type h then enter
you'll receive a warning that hybrid MBR's are flaky and dangerous. That's ok.
It then asks you to type from one to three partition numbers, you should type
2 3 4 - That's 2 space 3 space 4 - press enter
it will then ask if you want to include the EFI partition as first partition - answer Y
you will then get each partition number displayed one at a time.
for partitions 2 and 3 just accept default settings (by pressing the enter key) but answer N to making them bootable.
When partition 4 is displayed accept default selections but make sure that partition hex code for type is set to 07 (but it probably will be).
When asked whether partition 4 should be marked bootable answer Y - press enter
Once finished and back to the normal prompt type w and press enter, to write the changes to disk.
Confirm the changes when asked (with a Y and enter).
Once done type q and enter to quit gdisk.
Close terminal and reboot holding Alt key. If Windows option appears try to boot it.
Please post any errors shown or if you're not sure about something, ask :-)

Can't remove my ex bootcamp partition...need help

hey....i installed windows 8.1 through bootcamp, then after few days i tried to remove bootcamp partition through bootcamp assistant, but failed during the process.
Then I used disk utility to remove the partition. It did erased the partition but turned the partition into a grey box, named as free space and with a format of free space.
now i cant do anything with that box, i tried to highlight that box and clicked on the minus button but that also greyed out. After highlighting the grey partition, when i click on the + button, it tends to create another partition named as untitled 2, but when i clicked apply, nothing happened. and i cant see the hard drive model number in top left of disk utility..
i'm posting the screen shots....plz help..!!!

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but I'm getting Error: 404 "No detailed message"
Can I open jsp file like simple html file ? Or must I locate it special folder of server while it runs ?
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Fix booting of bootcamp partition?

I recently, very stupidly, created another partion on my mac for no reason. It has now broken the bootcamp partition (It won't boot, does not show up in the option menu at boot). I cannot get it to fix using the windows installation disk or anything like that, so I was wondering what are my options to restore the bootcamp partition.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as I have some important stuff on there that I need to use. I don't want to back up my data and reinstall.
This is my partition layout:
(Note that I am also unable to get rid of the free space, if i drag the mac partition and press apply, it just undoes)

https://discussions.apple.com/message/23846207#23846207
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Delete bootcamp partitions

Hi.
How i can remove bootcamp partitions?.
I have three partitions: Macintosh, linux swap, and ms partition (is debian really).
I need the disk space for Macintosh partition.
Thanks in advance.
Félix.

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