HT5639 how do you uninstall boot camp partion after a failed install of windows 7

I cannot remove a boot camp partition after a failed attempt to install windows 7 64 bit

IS there an option to remove Windows in Bootcamp Assistant?

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    how do you enlarge boot camp partition after windows is installed

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
    You can do it with third-party programs, but I don't recommend it because you can damage the hard drive. The best way to do it is to delete your Windows volume and create it again with the size you need

  • How to remove boot camp partion after windows has been deleted

    I have removed windows 7 from my mac book air. however the partition will not be deleted... how can I remove the partition.

    Hi,
    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. After the reboot use the BootCamp Assistant again to make the Windows partition and then install the (hopefully correct) version of Windows.
    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.
    Regards
    Stefan

  • Boot Camp 2.1 will not install in Windows 7 beta 1

    I have installed the 32-bit Windows 7 beta 1 on my MacBook using Boot Camp 2.0. I cannot for the life of me get the 2.1 update installed. After downloading in Windows, I run the setup and it asks me if it's okay to allow that file to make changes to my system. I agree but it stops there. Nothing happens. I made sure that I downloaded the 32-bit version for Vista and still nothing. Do I need to create a disc?

    I figured that because Boot Camp is only compatible for XP and Vista, yet I was able to install Windows 7 just fine, that the boot camp update would follow suit. My thought is that 7 is using a very similar build to Vista in that the difference is so slight in the build that Boot Camp thinks that it is Vista. I have heard success stories of Windows 7 in Boot Camp 2.1

  • How to reset "Get" in App Store after a failed install of Yosemite?

    I tried to upgrade  OS X 10.6.8 to Yosemite on an old iMac 8,1 with the standard 1GB memory, and of course it failed because 1 GB is not enough. I just upgraded to 4GB memory but now can't "Get" from the App Store?

    The same exact thing happened to me. I updated the memory in my iMac8,1 to get yosemite and can't get it anymore but it seems to be a common problem with computers that have 10.6.8 since it is not only Yosemite that we can't get but I can't download any other apps. I do have the get button but when I click it it will just look like you clicked it but nothing will happen after. Trying to download any apps I get the install app after clicking get and nothing will happen.

  • How many of you trashed Boot Camp after installing it?

    The challenge is over. After installing and playing with windows on a Mac, I'm going to get rid of it. I feel like I'm at work when using it. Good god windows is ugly and uninviting. And that sound, that familiar windows is booting sound is enough to make me barf. The main problem is dual booting, maybe I'll try Parallels desktop when it becomes available. BTW, anybody know how to properly uninstall Boot Camp?

    Actually it's working fine for me. Since I'm in a long transition process of going from Windows to Mac this is the perfect solution for me - one computer instead of two. Half the cost the way I see it. The only problem I ever had was with the Mac keyboard uninstalling itself on the Windows side intermittently - sometimes once an hour and sometimes every couple of minutes. Turns out it is a Mac issue either with the USB ports on the iMac or the keyboard itself not having enough power. Two solutions: 1) use a Windows keyboard, or 2) use an AC powered USB hub and plug the Mac keyboard into it.
    Cheers!

  • How can I activate Boot Camp Assistant?

    How can I activate Boot Camp?  I want to install an educational library that is on a CD.  People that have PC's can use the CD.  I have a mac mini and I want to open the CD to read/review.  I have the Snow Leopard model.

    Open Boot Camp Assistant in the Utilities folder. You will see the following:
    Click on the Print Installation & Setup Guide button. Click the OK button in the dropdown panel. You will now see the main Print panel. You can now print the document to your printer. If you prefer to make a PDF file you can read on the computer instead, then select Save as PDF from the PDF dropdown menu on the lower left. Save it to the location of your choice.
    Now, read this document carefully in order to follow the proper procedures for creating a Windows partition on your hard drive to which you can install Windows 7 from a retail Windows 7 installer DVD.
    Other options for running Windows:
    Windows on Intel Macs
    There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.
    1. Install the Apple Boot Camp software.  Purchase Windows XP w/Service Pak2, Vista, or Windows 7.  Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows.  Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.
    2. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7.  Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
    3. VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7.  VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
    4. CrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows.  The Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X.
    5. VirtualBox is a new Open Source freeware virtual machine such as VM Fusion and Parallels that was developed by Solaris.  It is not as fully developed for the Mac as Parallels and VM Fusion.
    6. Last is Q.  Q is a freeware emulator that is compatible with Intel Macs.  It is much slower than the virtualization software, Parallels and VM Fusion.
    Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc.  There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization.  The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system. See MacTech.com's Virtualization Benchmarking for comparisons of Boot Camp, Parallels, and VM Fusion. Boot Camp is only available with Leopard or Snow Leopard. Except for Crossover and a couple of similar alternatives like DarWine you must have a valid installer disc for Windows.
    You must also have an internal optical drive for installing Windows. Windows cannot be installed from an external optical drive.

  • HT5639 Do I need to uninstall boot camp 4 before I install and update to boot camp 5. I already have windows 8 pro with boot camp 4 installed. Do I need to unistall boot camp 4 or not necessary?

    I already have windows 8 pro with boot camp 4 installed on my macair book 11". I have searched the entire articles on how to upgrade boot camp 4 to boot camp 5 but have found no answer as to my question: Do you have to uninstall boot camp 4 drivers before you install boot camp 5? I am not sure if it is ok to install boot camp 5 directly without uninstalling boot camp 4 because there might be driver version conflict. So I have not installed boot camp 5. Is it ok to install boot camp 5 withoust uninstalling boot camp 4? Your answers will be much appreciated. Thanks.

    Welcome to Apple Support Communities
    You don't have to uninstall Boot Camp 4 drivers before installing Boot Camp 5 drivers. Boot Camp 5 drivers will simply overwrite Boot Camp 4 drivers, so you don't have to uninstall old drivers before installing new ones and making that process easier

  • How to uninstall boot camp partition?

    How to uninstall boot camp partition?

    Use the Boot Camp Assistant and follow the menus to remove an existing Boot Camp partition and return your computer to only OSx. Adding or removing a boot Camp partition is performed using Boot Camp Assistant.

  • How do you uninstall Windows 10 Dual Boot?

    Hello,
    I am running a dual boot installation of Winodws 8.1 and 10 Techical Preview, and I like to know how do you uninstall the Windows 10 from the dual boot scheme?  I think I've uninstalled previous beta versions of windows 8 by erasing the partition it
    was installed into and that was it.  Is this the correct way to remove window 10 too? Just asking, since the graphical version of the OS boot screen is present in this dual boot installation, does that change anything.

    Hello,
    I am running a dual boot installation of Winodws 8.1 and 10 Techical Preview, and I like to know how do you uninstall the Windows 10 from the dual boot scheme?  I think I've uninstalled previous beta versions of windows 8 by erasing the partition it
    was installed into and that was it.  Is this the correct way to remove window 10 too? Just asking, since the graphical version of the OS boot screen is present in this dual boot installation, does that change anything.
     Logon to your Win 8.1 > press the Win logo key and R key . You are now at Run window> at the Run box type diskmgmt.msc > OK
    You are now at Disk Management window > right click at the partition that house your Win 10 TP > click Delete Volume > the partition is now UNALLOCATED.
    At the left of it is your Win 8.1 partition. Yes ?
    If yes, right click at Win 8.1 partition > click Extend Volume > click Next > at Select the amount of space in MB, type in the maximum available space shown for the unallocated space in MB > Next >  Finish
    The space shrunk for Win 10 partition is now back to your Win 8.1

  • Trouble uninstalling Boot Camp

    A few weeks ago, I installed Boot Camp which partitioned my drive accordingly.
    I then tried to follow the steps I derived from 2 different forums to create a Windows XP boot disk from my Virtual PC disks.
    I could not get this to work, so I never installed Windows.
    Since then, I decided to use Parallels instead of Boot Camp. I bit the bullet and purchased both Parallels and Windows (XP Pro w/SP2 on OEM disks for $135.)
    Now I'm trying to uninstall Boot Camp and running into a problem, I think.
    I opened Boot Camp Assistant and selected "Restore" to remove the Windows partition and restore my hard drive to a single-partition Mac OS X volume.
    I then see a swirling blue & white "peppermint" stick a cross the bottom below a line that reads: "Status: Partitioning disk...."
    All seems right, except that this lasted for 20 hours with no change.
    Every few hours, when I'd notice it still "running" I'd check the "Force Quit Applications" window, expecting to see Boot Camp Assistant listed as "Not Responding." Not so...seems to be an app running normally. So I thought, 'maybe it really does take this long,' and I let it go.
    Checking back this morning, still no change, checked out a few forums, and I don't see this issue mentioned anywhere. In fact, one contributer made a comment to the effect that he was "surprised how quickly Boot Camp Assistant performed this task" (I wonder if he was being sarcastic? Hmmm)
    So I decided to quit out of BC Assistant, relaunched the program, and selected "Restore" again. I now have my horizontal blue and white swirling "barber pole" back (what is that called?), the Status is "partitioning disk", and I'm wonder how long this is supposed to take.
    Can anybody help me with this?

    The restore should not take long. You've definitely got something amiss. Use Utilities>DiskUtility to look at your hard drive. How many volumes are shown, and what are they labeled?

  • Can you run Boot Camp and Fusion at the same time?

    Hi,
    I had boot camp installed on my mac pro and loved it. I decided to get greedy and install Fusion using the boot camp partition. The Fusion install went ok but then Microsoft started to get fussy. Every time I would do something on Fusion it would ask me to "Re-activate Windows" when I logged into boot camp. Maybe if I saw Fusion fully working I wouldn't want to run boot camp any more but I think I want to have the option to run either. Right now I only have 1 gig real memory on my mac pro and Fusion seems a little slow compared to native boot camp. Can I run both boot camp and fusion without having to buy two native copies of Windows XP pro? I don't want a "sensible" answer, I want an answer that takes into account how Microsoft treats this re-activation situation.
    I guess Leopard might make this all obsolete, but until then .....
    ... Flash Gordon

    You need to make sure to install VMware Tools into your virtual machine (while booted into Windows via Fusion). Once you do this you shouldn't have to continually activate Windows when going back and forth from Boot Camp to Fusion. I've seen this discussed over on the VMware Fusion discussion boards, so you may want to look there for more details.
    Also, if Windows starts telling you it's been activated too many times, you can call Microsoft and they'll give you an alternate activation key. The phone number is listed on the Windows error screen. I had to do it and they were very accommodating. I just told them I was running Windows in a virtual machine, and there were almost no questions asked.
    You don't need to buy 2 copies of Windows to run both Boot Camp and VMFusion.

  • I bought windows 7 download online and started setting up boot camp but it says to insert the windows 7 disk so how do i do this?

    i bought windows 7 download online and started setting up boot camp but it says to insert the windows 7 disk so how do i do this?
    plz help me

    Hi Jaimie,
    To install Windows via Boot Camp you will need to have a copy of Windows on a physical dvd disc.
    If your purchase provides you with an ".ISO" file then you can simply burn this to a DVD and then follow the standard Boot Camp installation instructions.
    Boot Camp instructions: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf
    If you get stuck, just let me know the website you purchased Windows 7 from and I might be able to help you out.
    Cheers

  • Uninstalling Boot Camp Beta: is it dangerous?

    Hi,
    I installed Boot Camp on my MacBook some time ago, so that I could use both Win and Mac... Now I don't need to use Win anymore, so I would like to uninstall Boot Camp to free up some space.
    I don't care about the Win files, so I can lose them all, but I'm worried about my Mac files: am I going to lose them if I uninstall Boot Camp? Is there any danger or such?
    Please let me know asap!

    Re-partitioning a hard drive is always a potentially problematic operation. If you used the Boot Camp Assistant to create the Window's partition, then you can use the Assistant to remove the partition and recover the space. Theoretically this should not cause any loss of data. However, it would be wise to backup your OS X partition just in case. Always better to be safe than sorry.
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  • Uninstalling Boot Camp on OS 10.5.7

    I have Windows installed on a separate drive that is untitled. When I tried to uninstall Boot Camp - and asked what I wanted to do - "restore to a single MAC OS partition" was not a choice. Only allowing me to "erase disk and create a single windows partition"
    Assume I want to do that and when done reformat the hard drive for the MAC PRO????
    Thanks for your assistance!

    The Boot Camp Assistant will remain on your computer, but can be deleted manually if you really want to do so. All the other components will be erased; if the computer was set to start up into Windows, change it from the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.
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