How to delete Windows partition

I am running Snow Leopard and currently have two partitions in my hard drive-OS X and Windows Vista(I know - bad idea). How do I delete the windows partition?

this should be done using Bootcamp Assistant. start Bootcamp assistant and it will give you an option to remove the windows partition.

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I had a bootcamp partition, and I can't figure out how to completely get rid of it. I've erased everything ON the partition but I can't seem to figure out how to restore the partition's memory back to the original Macintosh HD partition.
Since I used disk utility to erase it, bootcamp assistant won't give me any options as to how to delete the partition. It's using up 50gb of my harddrive and I need the space for my original partition.
Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much

Select the drive in the sidebar, click on the Partition tab, delete that partition, and drag the slider at the bottom of the Mac OS X partition as far down as it will go.
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I have a MAC laptop, there used to partition windows XP but I want to change it to windows 7. and after my intstal do not want the road and a partition for windows missing. how to restore windows partition?

I have a MAC laptop, there used to partition windows XP but I want to change it to windows 7. and after my intstal do not want the road and a partition for windows missing. how to restore windows partition?

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You have an Early 2008 Mac Pro. You have the specs that your Mac Pro needs for more memory > https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4433#4 As you can read, that computer should have come with 2 GB of memory.
You can buy memory at OWC or Crucial > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Mac-Pro-Memory#800-memory Those sell compatible memory with all Macs. You can use another memory, but you can be sure that the memory that these brands sell are compatible

How to delete Windows 8.1 Recovery Partition

No, if I create a USB recovery pen on this system IT DOESN'T SHOW ME AN OPTION TO REMOVE THE ORIGINAL RECOVERY PARTITION. I had to go throgh EASEUS Partition Master to delete recovery and extend drive C and after that couldn't boot as usual. Had to use the recovery pen to go back to the out-of-the-box OS.And of course, the 10Gb recovery partition pops up again ....Now do you understand my problem?....

OK. I know what is going on. That 10Gb partition is indeed related to the new WIMBoot technology and it needs to be there. To be honest you are probably ahead of the game in terms of drive space leaving the WIMBooting in place. Here is a blog article that explains the WIMBoot partitions.http://avisek.pl/translations/installing-windows-8-1-on-asus-t100ta-wimboot/ The important part is this and the two screens after it. rem == 1. System partition (ESP) ===================create partition efi size=100format quick fs=fat32 label="System"rem == 2. Microsoft Reserved (MSR) partition =======create partition msr size=128rem == 3. Windows partition ========================create partition primary size=25500rem shrink minimum=10000format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"assign letter=crem === 4. Images partition ========================create partition primaryformat quick fs=ntfs label="Images"assign letter=mset id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001list volumeexit

How do i recover disk space after deleting windows partition?

I have a macbook pro running on maverick. I removed the windows partition using bootcamp assistant, but I did not gain the disk space back. The disk space is 500gb but it's still showing 250gb?

Yes, that matters. So your partition map looks something like this:
You see one single space surrounded in blue with the disk name in the center, sort of like the above. But, you say that this space is only 250 GBs of your 500 GB drive. In other words the space in the Size field reads 250 GBs, mol? Am I correct in my understanding?
I suggest you might give this a try: repair the hard drive using Disk Utility. Then restart the computer. See if that recovers the space. It would also help if you could send me a screen image like mine but of your Disk Utility display on the same settings.

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How do you resize the windows partition in boot camp?

iF you have already created the Windows partition, you can't resize it. To do it, you have to use an app like Paragon Camptune, that will allow you to resize your Windows volume > http://www.paragon-software.com/downloads/camptune.html
The other option is to delete Windows and create the new partition with the size you want in Windows. Make a backup of your data before doing this

Deleted windows partition still in MBR

Hi, I searched google all day long and found out some clues about what could be the problem (even found someone having the same problem as I have) but no solution to repair beside formatting and reinstalling from scratch.
What happened is that I had a Vista partition on my primary HD on my Mac Pro. I bought a new HD to move windows to this new HD so Mac OS can regain some space on its HD. I tried to use Winclone as mentioned on some forum but was not able to boot on the new partition after the restore process. So I did go ahead on deleting the Boot Camp partition on the first HD and reinstall from scratch on the new one. But now, when I use option at boot time to choose my start up device, I see 2 windows disk. One which is the new install, but one that lead to a missing operating system error. I did tried to remove my new HD to see if there would still be a windows option and yes, there is one and it is the missing operating system one.
So for what I understand from reading around the web is that probably, my protected MBR in the EFI partition still has the information about the Boot Camp partition that was once there. So I tried to rewrite this by creating a new Boot Camp partition on the first disk and then deleting it again in case the Boot Camp Utility had not made fully its job the first time, but with no luck. I then tried using rEFIt to sync the GPT and MBR but again, with no luck.
Also, now that I have rEFIt installed, I see 4 windows option at boot time. One legacy OS, 2 windows and one that offer me to boot windows with EFI.
So if someone as any idea, is in front of a similar problem or do know how to update/restore the EFI partition please let me know.
Best,

Hi,
Another little update after a couple of unsuccessful tentative to fix the situation.
I tried to use rEFIt to sync back the MBR from the GPT, but I got this error:
Status: Analysis inconclusive, will not touch this disk.
Error: Not Found returned from gptsync.efi
So, I tried to use Time Machine to restore my main HD after a complete repartitioning/reformat, but even after that I still got the same issue: 2 Windows partition from the start up preference pane in Vista and at boot time after holding the option key and although I only see one Windows partition under the start up preference pane in Mac OS, it tries to boot Windows from an non existing partition and display the missing operating system error.
I am now out of idea and since I don't have time for a clean install, I think I will try to live with it for now. Thanks for all suggestions.

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Hi all,
I own an Encore Mini WT7-C-100 tablet with only 16GB storage.
After following all possible and existing solutions and recomendations in order to free up storage, free space on C: is limited to barely 500MB.
On the other hand, I noticed that the resovery partitiobn is almost 3GB large.
Though it seems that there is no way to remove this partition and extend C: in order to gain more disk space (3,5GB would be more than enough for me). Right clicking on this partition in Disk Management displays no avaliable actions (except "Help").
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Try to start the recovery using the HDD recovery procedure.
If you want to access the boot menu on please press and hold the "Vol+" button and turn on the device pressing power button.
After a few seconds the boot option menu will appear.
Then select "HDD Recovery" and the rest of the procedure is similar to the Windows 8 recovery process you can find here:
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD1303440001R02.htm
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http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD4103K90000R01.htm
If you don't have the recovery media, you could order this here:
http://backupmedia.toshiba.eu
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Boot into CLI and use BCDEdit to delete them. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Cc709667(v=WS.10).aspx

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I have reinstalled Windows 10 beta twice on my test laptop. But when I install Windows 7 now it will no more boot. I will just see a black screen.
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If yes how can I get rid of them both?
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If you deleted the partition you'll need to use BootCamp to recreate the partition.

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/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
KERNEL=="sda1", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
Unfortunately, after rebooting, Windows partition is still there (Thunar and other apps).
How do I hide it?

Do you have ntfs-3g installed? If so, remove it, as its only use is to find, mount, read from and write to Windows block devices. If you don't have ntfs-3g installed, you shouldn't be able to access the drive, even if it appears in Thunar.* I don't know why it would appear without ntfs-3g installed, though.
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How to eliminate windows partition created with bootcamp

Instrucdtions for how to eliminate a windows partition created with bootcamp. thanks

Go back and reread and open the application you used.
though most Mac Pro owners choose to dedicate a drive to Windows.
Even Disk Utility will remove and then stretch the adjoining partiton it is best to use Boot Camp Assistant.
Best place to ask, Boot Camp forum, of course.

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