How do i get rid of bootcamp partition

i tried to delete bootcamp from my computer and it took out windows but still left the partition on the hard drive and now there are two partitions on the drive and it does not mount and it has 35 gigs of room tied up on it and i want to install parelles 7 on it and it keeps tring to load it up on the bootcamp that does not mount.i tried to delete the partition in disk utilies it keeps on failing Howcan i get it bach without reformatting the whole computer.i am running 10.8 on an imac 2.4 with 4 gigs of ram

Robert Powell3 wrote:
i tried to delete bootcamp from my computer and it took out windows but still left the partition on the hard drive and now there are two partitions on the drive and it does not mount and it has 35 gigs of room tied up on it and i want to install parelles 7 on it and it keeps tring to load it up on the bootcamp that does not mount.i tried to delete the partition in disk utilies it keeps on failing Howcan i get it bach without reformatting the whole computer.i am running 10.8 on an imac 2.4 with 4 gigs of ram
You lack the knowledge needed to do this, example; You want to use the 35G partition for Parallels, but Parallels does not use a partition, so that won't work.
Backup the entire drive, Delete the entire drive and start again. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS THIS TIME

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