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Removing a Windows virtual disk from an iMac

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Posted Jan 10 2010 04:00 AM
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As a newcomer to iMac (OSX, 10.4.11), my son set up a Windows partition so that I could continue to use Win applications. A year later I no longer use the Windows partition and would rather have the space available to my Mac work.

Is there any way to return that volume's 100+GB (NT filesystem) to the Mac, without disturbing the data on the Mac volume?

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Posted Jan 10 2010 09:49 AM

The Bootcamp Assistant program, located in the Utilities folder, will safely remove the Windows partition. (This is how your son created the partition, but it's not the first place that people think of when they want to undo it.)
 : Jan 10 2010 11:26 AM
Thank you, but... The problem is that it was Bootcamp Beta (which has now expired), and the OS is 10.4 (which doesn't, I believe, support the current Bootcamp). Does that mean I must first upgrade the OS and then get hold of a new version of Bootcamp? But will that work on a disk created on the beta version in an older operating system?
 : Jan 13 2010 03:52 PM
The process is still the same (using Bootcamp Assistant) but you have to trick the beta into thinking it's not expired. Apple provides the details here: http://support.apple...iewlocale=en_US