mac boot camp question

[Jenks]

When i purchased my mbp, i ordered it pre installed with boot camp and windows xp and the hard drive partitioned to do this. I only need windows for my design software for work, but i've decided to just use my old pc laptop for that now and i'd rather have my mac hard drive be all mac. How easy is it to unpartition a hard drive? Am i going to lose anything? Help me get windows off my mac.

[asdf_admin]

Re: mac boot camp question

I would do a fresh install and reformat your whole drive. It is going to save you a lot of possible grief. The worst part is that you working with something that can be very destructive to your OS. If for some reason something were to go wrong, you are going to loose everything. I would recommend to back everything up ... go clean and go fresh. This will ensure no hickups in the near future.

You can check the status of your formats using Disk Utility. Just be careful Jenks.

[Jenks]

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crap. i was afraid it wasn't going to be as easy as highlight windows, move to trash can.

[toasty]

Re: mac boot camp question

crap. i was afraid it wasn't going to be as easy as highlight windows, move to trash can.

With parallels, it more or less is that easy. If you've partitioned your drive, though, I'm pretty sure you can't unpartition it without losing everything. Maybe you could dump everything in the Windows partition and just use that partition as a distinct drive? Otherwise, I'm not sure there's a way around a fresh install...

[ddr]

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parallels is a fake drive but with boot camp you gotta deal with partition crap.

but yea, nothing beats a fresh install. gotta deal with the problem of backing up, hopefully you dont have too much pr0n on there.

after that, its smooth sailing.

[miketpoto]

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In leopard you can resize partitions easily with disk utility.

Not sure if it works on FAT32 partitions though.

[asdf_admin]

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That is my main concern ... the FAT32 aspect. I would only assume it would complicate things. Let's us know Jenks.

[beanzncheez]

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The steps that assfuck_admin spoke of are really that easy. It just sounds "hard" to the immature mind. Good luck.

[Jenks]

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^i would whoop your ass in scrabble beaner.

[beanzncheez]

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^ ^ Fine by me. I'll be sure to look you up if I'm ever in the Lou.

[Jenks]

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[feather]

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Format, and take the chance to do a custom install of OS X while you're at it, will save you some space on the hdd. Think I almost halved my installation.

[miketpoto]

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yup, leopard printer drivers are like 3.8 gigs

[beanzncheez]

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Fookin' slam my ass with a cock and call me by my daughter's middle name.

[miketpoto]

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Fookin' slam my ass with a cock and call me by my daughter's middle name.

Shirley?