How do I delete my boot camp partition?

I want to have as much space as possible on my drive. I have a boot camp partition set up but have decided not to use it. How do I safely delete it?

Launch the Boot Camp Utility. You'll have the option to remove an existing Boot Camp partition. Delete it and the space will be returned to OS X.

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    I am using a mac book os is x.4 and only one hard disk is installed.
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    http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x
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    I deleted all the data off of my boot camp partition, so Boot camp assistant doesn't recognize it as a Windows partition to delete it. Disk Utility will not allow me to delete the partition, either.
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  • HT5639 How do I restore my Boot Camp partition to a new Mac?

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  • Can no longer see Boot Camp Partition

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  • Boot camp partition on my internal Drive

    I Have a imac early 2008 and i partitioned part of my internal Hard drive as a partition for time machine. but now i can not get rid of that time machine partition. I have already erased the partition but it will not let me delete the boot camp partition. even after reformating the hard drive. i can eject it but every time i restart it shows back up under my HD icon.
    So my question is how do i get rid of that partition and return my HD back to normal.

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    P.S. Welcome to Discussions!
    Message was edited by: joshz

  • Boot Camp Partition shows up Smaller in Windows 7 Setup

    I just installed a new Seagate 1TB hybrid drive (STBD1000400) in my mid-2009 15" MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GB of RAM, with OS X 10.9.2 and Boot Camp (and all other Software up to date).  Everything went fine with the installation of the new Drive and is showing up as 1TB in the system in OS X.
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    Nick

    Capacity of the drive or size of the volume.  In windows 7 it says 931.32GB.  Rebooting into Mavericks, DU shows the volume as
    1,000,204,886,016 Bytes
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  • Does anyone know what will happen to my boot camp partition once I upgrade to lion?

    I have MacBook Pro (4,1) running leopard 10.6.8 and am hesitant about the upgrade to lion because I have a FAT boot camp partition with window xp in it and a number of apps that I wouldn't like to lose in the process. Does anybody know how the upgrade handles the boot camp partition?

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  • HT3777 Reducing Boot Camp partition size

    I've never used Boot Camp since I bought my MacBook Pro in 2008 since it came with a free VM Fusion program.  I have Boot Camp with nothing in it taking up 33 GB of space and I need the space.  How do I reduce the Boot Camp partition size?

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    Be angry if you wish but realize we are all volunteers on these forums and being impatient does not encourage
    gratis.

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