Remove Windows partition before or after upgrading to Leopord

Hi,
I have been using boot camp beta for some time. A short time ago, the Windows partition became unusable because the partition was too small. It appears the least risky approach would be to restore the disk to a OS X only system then re-install Windows on a larger partition. I have the Leopard upgrade disk. I have also read article 306805 which involves rolling back the computer clock.
My question is would it be safer to remove the Windows partition before or after upgrading to Leopard?

Backup and reformat your drive with Leopard. Then install both. You can use Migration Assistant to restore your files and settings.

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Ok. I'm in the club with the same problem...
Strange things:
* For the first days after Leopard's install, my BootCamp disk0s3 partition (I'll name it "BillGates") was mounted correctly. Then, after a few days (but BEFORE upgrading to 10.5.1), it disappeared.
* If I launch DiskUtility "BillGates" is shown, but (in the right device navigation bar) it's named "-n BillGates". If I click the Erase menu, it's named "-nBillGates" (without the space between "-n" and "BillGates"). If I launch SystemProfiler it's named "-n BillGates", but the mount point is "/Volumes/billgates". Can't understand where this "-n" thing is coming from!
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* In the FSTAB there were no instructions: it was empty.
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I tried the modify-the-FSTAB-solution: no results (with "BillGates", "-n BillGates" nor "-nBillGates".
I tried the chkdsk-solution: all tests were ok, but nothing happened.
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Who says you'll only use it once? Hard drives do fail and they fail at any time. Even SSDs fail.
You can buy Parallels or VMware Fusion and make a Virtual Machine of your current boot camp Windows install then not worry about that Windows partition.
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If you use Windows for 40-70% of your computing I suggest you invest in a Windows PC and Use the Mac for what it was made for, OS X programs.
If your Windows computing is limited to office and the like programs then a VM may work just fine for you. It doesn't for me as I run heavy CAD programs and Photoshop on my PCs. But the VM on my Mac works for what I may need Windows for on a Mac.

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Hello - anyone familiar with this scenario.
I have used TIME MACHINE from the very first day I had my iMac. So it was started almost immediately after the initial boot of a brand new iMac case I ever needed to restore my Mac to that initial Day 1 state.
That day has come, but it's now two years, and in that time I have installed BOOTCAMP, Parallels and Windows 7. That process created another partition, and created the required 'links' between my OSX and Windows via Parallels etc.
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popsynic wrote:
Hi - thanks for responding
"Is Parallels using the BC partition as a VM, or is it a separate VM with its own virtual disk?"
I don't know - basically I have a BOOTCAMP partition and Windows is installed on that (using these instructions from the Parallels website) I can then either open up Windows from in OSX Moutain Lion while keeping my mac running (and windows will run in its own little window - but within OSX. OR I can also choose to boot dircetly wi windows when I tuen on my MAC - and then it runs independently of my OSX.
You are using the BC Windows and running it as VM. There is no separate VM with virtual disk.
"Are you planning to erase the internal drive(s)?"
I wasn't sure - I want to restore my iMac like it was on the day I had it, before I partitoned BOOTCAMP and installed windows. So my question is, will the TIME MACHINE restore get rid of WINDOWS and the BOOTCAMP partition for me as part of its restore - or do i have to that, and then restore using Time Machine
It is much simpler to run BC Assistant and use the last option - "Remove Windows". It is a bit cleaner.
"If the backup on TM which started on Day 1 has continued as you have made changes, including BC/Windows/Parallels, it has continued to backup OS X and partition information. I suggest you backup Windows using Windows Backup to a separate external drive formatted as NTFS, and also consider Winclone or CampTune for a OS X compatible BC backup, if you run into any issues."
As above, I am not bothered about keeping Windows or the BOOTCAMP partition, I want to resore my iMac to the DAY 1 status - when I did my first full Time Machine backup - which was before I created a Bootcamp partition or installed Windows.
I suggest removing Windows via BCA and backing up to Time Machine. You will keep you OS X intact and keep all your files on the OS X side.

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I'm a little late to this party, but hoping to find some help. I can see my WindowsXP Pro partition on the desktop, but after upgrading to Mavericks it won't fully start up. I'll get the usual screens, then the XP loading screen with the blue loading animation. After about 5 passes of the blue thing, it will hesitate and flash a blue screen so fast, that it took me several attempts to snap a photo so I could read it. "Unmountable_Boot_Volume" is the error. It then says to follow these steps... but cuts off and reboots.
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THIS IS AN EXTRA FAT32 DRIVE
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *82.0 GB    disk0
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 NEWMAN                  82.0 GB    disk0s1
THIS IS THE MAVERICKS DRIVE WITH XP PRO PARTITION
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Big Al Pro              833.6 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         165.7 GB   disk1s4
Als-Home-Mac:~ user$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
Als-Home-Mac:~ user$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=81964302336; sectorsize=512; blocks=160086528
gpt show: /dev/disk0: MBR at sector 0
      start       size index contents
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Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 9964/255/63 [160086528 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: 0B    0   1   1 - 1023 254 63 [        63 - 160086465] Win95 FAT-32
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

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Als-Home-Mac:~ user$ sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk1s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
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00000000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 |.R.NTFS    .....|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 00 48 26 61 |........?....H&a|
00000020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00 ff 1f 4a 13 00 00 00 00 |..........J.....|
00000030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 ff a1 34 01 00 00 00 00 |..........4.....|
00000040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 cf 33 84 9c 53 84 9c d2 |.........3..S...|
00000050 00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb b8 c0 07 |.....3.....|....|
00000060 8e d8 e8 16 00 b8 00 0d 8e c0 33 db c6 06 0e 00 |..........3.....|
00000070 10 e8 53 00 68 00 0d 68 6a 02 cb 8a 16 24 00 b4 |..S.h..hj....$..|
00000080 08 cd 13 73 05 b9 ff ff 8a f1 66 0f b6 c6 40 66 |...s......f...@f|
00000090 0f b6 d1 80 e2 3f f7 e2 86 cd c0 ed 06 41 66 0f |.....?.......Af.|
000000a0 b7 c9 66 f7 e1 66 a3 20 00 c3 b4 41 bb aa 55 8a |..f..f. ...A..U.|
000000b0 16 24 00 cd 13 72 0f 81 fb 55 aa 75 09 f6 c1 01 |.$...r...U.u....|
000000c0 74 04 fe 06 14 00 c3 66 60 1e 06 66 a1 10 00 66 |t......f`..f...f|
000000d0 03 06 1c 00 66 3b 06 20 00 0f 82 3a 00 1e 66 6a |....f;. ...:..fj|
000000e0 00 66 50 06 53 66 68 10 00 01 00 80 3e 14 00 00 |.fP.Sfh.....>...|
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00000110 66 58 66 58 1f eb 2d 66 33 d2 66 0f b7 0e 18 00 |fXfX..-f3.f.....|
00000120 66 f7 f1 fe c2 8a ca 66 8b d0 66 c1 ea 10 f7 36 |f......f..f....6|
00000130 1a 00 86 d6 8a 16 24 00 8a e8 c0 e4 06 0a cc b8 |......$.........|
00000140 01 02 cd 13 0f 82 19 00 8c c0 05 20 00 8e c0 66 |........... ...f|
00000150 ff 06 10 00 ff 0e 0e 00 0f 85 6f ff 07 1f 66 61 |..........o...fa|
00000160 c3 a0 f8 01 e8 09 00 a0 fb 01 e8 03 00 fb eb fe |................|
00000170 b4 01 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74 09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 |.....<.t........|
00000180 eb f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20 64 69 73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 |.....A disk read|
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000001c0 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 00 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 |mpressed...Press|
000001d0 20 43 74 72 6c 2b 41 6c 74 2b 44 65 6c 20 74 6f | Ctrl+Alt+Del to|
000001e0 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 | restart........|
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David Anderson wrote:
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