HT3777 how to undo partition for boot camp

I want to undo the partition for boot camp, we never use it and use VMware
instead. Can this be done?

So you never installed Windows natively and Fusion is not using anything other than its own image?
Some people dual boot and use VM.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4818
The install guide is also how to remove the partition, you do so from same utility.
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#macos
Seeing you are on 10.5.8 ? then that really goes back to 2008, too.
But G5s never supported Windows, so guess you have a different system now.

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    So yes, I have searched online to find a way to format the partitioned to NTFS so I can Boot Camp my Mac Mini and have found nothing that I can use.  Instead, all I have found are horror stories of others messing up their Macs when doing this.  I want to be sure I do this as correctly as possible because I do adore my computer.
    For Boot Camping, I have followed the steps and started the installation of Windows 7 but when it comes to choosing the partition it says I can't because it's not in NTFS format.  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

    Heh! Yes, it's one of those things that are simple, once you know where to look. Glad you got it figured out.
    You won't quite be done once Win 7 is done installing. You'll notice that the graphics in Windows likely won't be very good, and in general running kind of slow. That's because the Windows DVD had no drivers for Mac hardware.
    So you need your Snow Leopard disk. Either the first gray disk your Mac came with, it if shipped with Snow Leopard, or the retail disk you purchased.
    From the Windows 7 desktop, put the Snow Leopard disk in the drive. Windows will pop up the usual message about what you want to do with an external drive. Choose "Run Setup". It will run for a while as the drivers for your Mac hardware are installed for Win 7.
    Once that's done, you'll have menu icon for Apple Software Update. Run that to see if it needs to download and install any other Boot Camp updates, which would any updated Win 7 drivers for you Mac.

  • Does a partition for Boot Camp slow down your system?

    I'm gonna make a partition on my disk for bootcamp. Does adding a partition slow down your system when using Mac OS? I assume boot camp assistant creates a partition wherever there is enough required free space. And if this free space is in the middle of the disk, doesn't the system have to skip back and forth over the partition to access data?
    Or does boot camp assistant create the partition at the end of the disk?
    Thanks for your replies.

    Boot Camp partition is generally created at the end of the disk so to speak. While the partition is created, files are moved and arranged so that there is a contiguous space for the partition.
    NO it does not affect the OSx performance at all as long as you have enough free space in the OSx partition for it to perform satisfactorily.
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  • I am trying to do a clean install of Snow Leopard on an Intel Macbook Pro. (Need to partition for Boot Camp)  I have done it in the past so I know it works but whenever I select the install disk as the boot device it gets stuck on the Apple logo/pinwheel.

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    stephenfromlynchburg wrote:
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    https://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
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  • What is the largest partition for boot camp

    I'm at 34 GB now and need more room. Can I go larger? I'm running XP on my windows side.
    Rick

    Fortuny wrote:
    Windows XP has a practical limit for partitions at 2TB due to the used MBR (Master Boot Record) not being able to address larger harddisks.
    32GB is the limitation Microsoft has set for using FAT32 as file system.
    Partitions over 32GB have to use the NTFS file system.
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    Hmmm, formatting is odd, here's a link to the original MS article

  • How do I partition my hard drive for boot camp?

    Model Name:          MacBook Pro
      Model Identifier:          MacBookPro1,2
      Processor Name:          Intel Core Duo
      Processor Speed:          2.16 GHz
      Number Of Processors:          1
      Total Number Of Cores:          2
      L2 Cache:          2 MB
      Memory:          2 GB
      Bus Speed:          667 MHz
      Boot ROM Version:          MBP12.0061.B03
      SMC Version (system):          1.5f10
      Serial Number (system):
      Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CB982183
      Sudden Motion Sensor:
      State:          Enabled
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    dpx wrote:
    If you do really want to partition your hard drive then you need to look in your utilities folder for disk utility.
    Once this is open, click on your hard drive image in the left hand column and then you will see a partition tab. Here you can split your HD into two partitions. Call one of them XP or something like that so that you know where to install windows.
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    To the OP
    Do not heed this advice, you should use Boot Camp Assistant to create the partition for Boot Camp, do not use Disk Utility.

  • Clone Windows HD to use for Boot Camp

    Hello Apple Forum!
    I have a bit of an issue. I have had a laptop where the motherboard has died on me. The harddrive is perfectly fine though. What i want to do is clone the hard drive and have that set as the partition for Boot Camp. Is this possible?
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    - Second, once I have the copied image onto my external hard drive, could I clone that to the boot camp partition?
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    Moving Windows means
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  • How can I force mount a dvd that isn't even seen by Disk Utility? I can see it on the Mac when using my Windows 7 partition via Boot Camp, but not in Lion, which is how I would rather be running.

    How can I force mount a dvd that isn't even seen by Disk Utility? I can see it on the Mac when using my Windows 7 partition via Boot Camp, but not in Lion, which is how I would rather be running.

    Well if there is a EFI block, then running a program in OS X isn't going to do a lick of good.
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    I swapped out the stock 160gb drive that came in my MacBook Pro since it was acting up. I installed a new drive and restored it with Time Machine, but now my Boot Camp partition is still on my old drive. I slipped my old drive into a usb sata enclosure and tried booting from it in hope I could back it up with Winclone. When I went into the startup disk selector the drive would not show up (but it sounded like it was trying to spin up). Earlier when I pulled the drive out of my MacBook Pro it was still functioning fine, so I do not think the drive has failed.
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    Hi!
    I am getting the error:
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    I read up some on google, but all of them says that they have crated a partition and that is the problem, I only have the standard "Macintosh HD".
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    Thanks.

    This message, and threads like yours got asked daily for over two years, now it is only a couple times a week!!
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  • I'v got the latest macbook pro 13" and it dose not come with the lion os disk so how do i get the boot camp drivers for windows 7 without an os disk

    i'v got the latest macbook pro 13" and it dose not come with the lion os disk so how do i get the boot camp drivers for windows 7 without an os disk

    Page 5, step 2, #2, 2nd bullet.
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.7.pdf

  • HT4840 How do you download this Boot Camp 4.0 for OS X 10.6.8 ?

    How do you download this Boot Camp 4.0 When you already got Snow Leopard with latest OS X 10.6.8? It dont come in software update, and I cannot find any downloads on apples pages except exe files !??!?! HELP!

    I don't beleve you can. To the best of my knowledge, Boot Camp 4.0 is part of OS X 10.7 Lion and not available for earlier versions of Mac OS X.
    Regards.

  • Not all free disk space available for windows partition in Boot Camp

    Hi,
    I want to install Windows 7 via Bootcamp on my MacBook (2009, Mavericks OS, BootCamp Assistant 5.1.2) and unfortunately it has been a huge struggle until now to achieve that. The whole reason for this is that I had Windows XP as the second OS on my MacBook, but I wanted to increase the Windows partition with Disk Utility. Unfortunately this permanently damaged my Windows partition so I couldn't use it anymore.
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    Can anyonetell me why this happens or what could be the problem? I need to have more than 24 Gb available for my Windows as this was the whole reason why I once wanted to increase my old Windows partition, that's where all the problems came from.
    I appreciate your help, thank you!
    Here is what Disk Utility tells about my partitions:

    TTBOMK the only way you can increase the Windows partition is to repartition the drive back to a single partition
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    Restore all data from backup
    Create new larger partition with Boot Camp
    Install Windows
    Restore data from backup
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  • The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

    The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

    nikasv wrote:
    The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
    That's essentially what Solving Boot Camp partition creation problems says. What is your question?

  • Partitioning Issues (Boot Camp issues)

    Im having trouble with bootcamp. I partitioned it with not enough space. I looked through the print off and it couldnt do the specified routine to fix it, i need to be able to get my Hard drive back into 1 main drive, deleting the other 2 partitioned drives. i currently have: Macintosh HD (my main driver), Mac OS X (the driver that was supposed to be the windows driver) and Macintosh HD_2 (a test driver that has enough space for the windows). What i need to know is: >How can i get my drivers back into one driver so i can start again? OR!! >How can i get Macintosh HD_2 to become the main partitioned drive.
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    Hey, I have the same problem. But when I go to Disk Utility, and I cant repair dick because its not "clickable". so I verify it, but it shows
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    Checking Extents Overflow file.
    Checking Catalog file.
    Checking multi-linked files.
    Checking Catalog hierarchy.
    Checking Extended Attributes file.
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