I need to delete my windows partition off my drive.

II need to delete my boot camp partition. The data is no longer useful. I want to reformat the partition into one large drive as it was out of the box.

Open Boot Camp Assistant (Utilities folder) and use it to remove the partition.

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I have a mac book pro with Boot Camp that also runs windows. I upgraded to Lion and now the mac side crashes/freezes periodically, especially iphoto. I am told by the genius' that I probably need to "clean" it and reinstall lion using the "recovery drive" which resets everything back to default and reinstalls the lion operating system. My question is will this also delete the "windows" partition drive and all that data too. If so that will be a huge pain in the ___ to back up and reinstall boot camp and windows. I want to shoot the lion.

There is no system like Acronis for the Mac platform. You can try using the buiilt in Disk Utility to create an Image of the complete Mac drive but I have found that this does not work very well as on tryiing to restore it gives errors sometimes.
You can use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable Clone of your system partition. But that is only for the System partition and not the complete drive.
If you use Boot Camp to install Windows on your Mac neither of those two programs will clone the Windows side.
Neither will Disk utility as Mac's can not create or write to a NTFS partition. So some other program is need for that.

How do I delete a Windows partition and resize the MAC HD partition to orig

How do I delete a Windows partition and resize the MAC HD partition to original? I am new to Mac and created a very large Windows partition and need to delete it and get back. To make matters worse, I do not have a drive configured for Time Machine.
Okay, I'm stupid and jumped the gun. but can anyone help this poor fool?
Richard

Okay, after lots of Google-ing, I finally decided to follow the ru - WAEFRTFI - and found the answer in the Boot Camp Installation Setup pdf on p. 22.
Richard

How would i "completely" delete my Windows Partition?

Hi all,
After a month use of windows, i am finding it more useful to use my mac so i have made the decision to delete my windows partition.
How would i "completely" delete my Windows Partition?
This is what i was planning on doing (Please correct any problems):
Disk Utility -> disk0s3 (windows) -> Erase (Zero out data)
Is this right or is there a more efficient way of doing this, i want to "completely remove everything in the partition, which is why i have chosen to "zero out" data.
Thanks

OK. A normal erase doesn't actually erase the file data stored on a drive. Instead, it just removes the small amount of info that tells the file system where to find that data on the drive & frees up that space so that the file system can use it for data from other files. This is much quicker than actually overwriting the file data with some other data pattern. (There really is no such thing as an "erase" in the normal sense of "remove" or "rub out" -- all the drive can do is write something over the old data to obliterate it.)
As long as the file system is working correctly, this is all that is needed to effectively "erase" the file, since whatever data patterns that space on the drive contains is treated as if it contained nothing. Special purpose forensic applications can recover some or all of that data by ignoring the file system & scouring the drive, looking for "orphaned" chunks of data & reassembling them into files. (It is a little bit like putting a filing cabinet back in order after someone has emptied all the pages & file folders into the trash.)
The OS offers a set of security measures to prevent this, the simplest of which is to "zero out" the data by overwriting it with an all zero data pattern. If you are not concerned about someone recovering sensitive data "erased" from your hard drive with one of these specialized applications, you do not need to use these measures, which are time consuming.

I need to delete all my pictures off of my iPhone because I have run out of storage. I have downloaded all pics to my mac but is my entire camera roll backed up on iCloud as well? I just want to make sure before I delete them from the phone.

I need to delete all my photos off my iphone because I have run out of local storage. I have synced with my Mac but also wanted online backup. Are all my photos from the camera roll uploaded to iCloud? I just want to make sure I can retrieve them after I erase from the phone and in case my Mac crashes.

Import photos through iPhoto. (You will prompt to delete from iPhone when import competes).
Backup your Mac. (At least the iPhoto Library)
Backup to iTunes.
Backup to iCloud. (Check in Settings>iCloud>Storage and Backup>Manage Storage>your device name>Camera Roll ON).

I accidentally deleted my windows partition

I had created a 100GB partition for windows on my 500GB hard disk from BootCamp and accidentally deleted the windows partition and I've got that 100GB free that I cannot use anymore. The partition cannot be resized and that's it. Please suggest a way in which I can get rid of that free space and resize my hard disk without losing ant data.

tug! wrote:
there are 2 options here,
1) use bootcamp assistant to delete your failed partition and reinstall windows. or,
The OP has already deleted it, can't delete it again
2) using disc utility open your hdd (use the original branded name, not the short name of the same drive)
select "partition" highlight your failed partition, click the minus button then click apply. this will give you your 100GB back. from here you will be able to start over with bootcamp again if you wish.
Once more, the partition is already deleted, how can it be deleted again?

HT1688 i need to delete this email acct off my phone but cant because i did it from the link, the information that i have in is wrong. What to do?

i need to delete this email acct off my phone but cant because i did it from the link, the information that i have in is wrong. What to do?

Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars - go to the Accounts section, choose the account to delete, scroll to the resulting page and tap "Delete Account".

I made a windows partition on my mac but now i cant swap back to the mac part so is there any way that i can delete the windows partition whilst running windows 7 so i can go back to the mac part

i made a windows partition on my mac but now i cant swap back to the mac part so is there any way that i can delete the windows partition whilst running windows 7 so i can go back to the mac part

You are telling us you read and tried the normal methods?
Boot Camp or Taskbar. Option on restart. "x" on startup. And none of those work.

Delete a Windows partition

I am trying to delete a Windows partition I create with Boot Camp.   It does not show up in Disk Utilities under my Hard Drive.
Boot Camp Assistant does not give me any options either.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Wayne

#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
Waynes-iMac-2:~ Wayne$

Will upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion delete my Windows partition (bootcamp)?

On my other computer I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, and the windows vista partition was completely deleted. I was wondering if I upgrade from Lion to Mountain Lion on my other mac with Windows 7 will it be affected, or in other words, is Mountain Lion Bootcamp compatable with WIndows 7. Should I save it to an external hard drive?
Thanks!

No OS X installer deletes a Windows partition automatically. There is no reason for a Mountain Lion installer to do so when upgrading from Lion.
Nevertheless, having backups is always a good idea no matter what. If you don't have them, then this is a good time for them.

Deleting Multiple Windows Partitions

So i put two partitions of windows on my mac, one using boot camp and one using vmware fusion. Once i connected to the internet on both of them, i was hit by some MAJOR viruses. I am done with windows and want to delete all partitions and be clean. I cant seem to figure out how to delete them though. When i open the bootcamp assistant, it doesnt give me the option to restore or remove partitions, only installation. I saw that you might have to use disk utility to delete them, but i the partitions dont show up on the hard drive, only the "mac" partition. i know that the partitions are still there because i can still use them. How do i get these darn things off my computer without reformatting it? Is that what it comes down to? Also, i heard something about first and second disk partition and that can make a difference, but i have no idea what they are talking about. A little insight would help a poor fellow out. Thanks!

You cannot use Boot Camp once you change the number of partitions on the drive. Boot Camp only works on a drive that has one partition prior to creating the Boot Camp partition. Now that you created a third partition you removed the ability of Boot Camp to delete its partition. You did read the Boot Camp documentation?
You need to backup your OS X partition by creating a bootable backup to an external Firewire drive. Then repartition your hard drive and clone your system back from the external drive. You can create the clones using the Restore option of Disk Utility. Be sure you use DU to repair the hard drive and permissions before cloning. Your external drive should be erased prior to cloning.

Help needed: how to restore windows partition on Mac OS X

i delete my windows vista partition by accident,anyone knows how to restore it. what software i need? Thanks:)

If you deleted the partition you'll need to use BootCamp to recreate the partition.

When partitioning my computer, do I need to delete everything on the current hard drive?

I am looking to get Mac OS Lion so I can have boot camp to get windows 7, but my brother, who had Mac OS Snow Leopard, tried to get windows 7 using boot camp, and it wouldn't partition the hard drive, it said he had to clear the entire hard drive. My Mac is about three years old. I am just curious, if I get Mac OS Lion, then try to download windows 7 through boot camp, do I need to delete the entire hard drive? or was that just a problem for my brother because he had snow leopard?

Got to your Mac HDD icon and get info from the file menu. Or open Disk Utility and click on the Mac HDD icon and look at the info displayed at the bottom ofthe window. Or click on the Apple menu and select about this mac, then more info and from the top menu bar select storage for numbers and graphic display.

Help needed with delete of bootcamp partition, error message 'Couldn't unmount disk'

Hello all
Sorry if this issue has been repeated elsewhere, I did search but there wasn't a discussion relating to my specific issue.
When we bought the iMac a couple of years ago, my husband partitioned the hard drive to run Windows via Bootcamp. Having got used to the Mac and experiencing the frustration between having to reboot to access each partition I have decided to restore the Mac to factory settings and install Parallels 8 so I can continue to use Office and Coreldraw).
So having backed up all of my files, I started the Mac up holding the 'Alt' key and then loaded the Recovery HD mode followed by Disk Utility. I then selected Bootcamp and erased all data from the partition. [Note: there are 2 files left which it won't allow me to erase through this method]
I then selected the main drive and the tab 'Partition', from the layout I then selected Bootcamp and clicked the minus button. I get the message confirming which partition I am about to delete and hit remove. I then get the error message 'Partition failed: couldn't unmount disk'.
I would be very grateful for some help please? I am not the best techy person but happy to give anything a go.
Just to mention there is nothing left on the Mac that I want to keep, therefore if there is an easier way than having to delete the partition then happy to hear it.
Thanks
Tara

Hello Tara,
Are you using Filevault?
https://kimmo.suominen.com/blog/2013/03/file-vault-volumes-cannot-be-resized/
Also see the last few posts here...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3894449?start=15&tstart=0

Tiger to Leopard... Need to re-install Windows Partition?

Hi everyone,
I'm running Tiger right now and I am going to buy Leopard soon. Judging from all the problems people are having. I have decided I am going to do an Erase and Install. However, I'm running Boot Camp under Tiger right now. If I do an Erase and Install, will that effect my current Boot Camp partition? Do I need to re-install Windows again or will Leopard see that its a separate partition and leave it in tack?
Thanks

Erase and install will not touch the Windows partition.

I need to delete my windows partition off my drive.

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