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About LinkBacksi recently got a MacBook, and it came with Boot Camp pre-installed. i really have no need for Windows on my machine and i'd much rather get the hard drive space back, so does anyone know how i can uninstall Boot Camp? i tried Googling but strangely enough, i couldn't find anything helpful. one site says i have to look for the Boot Camp Assistant under /Applications/Utilities but there's no such program installed on my MacBook. help? TIA
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- 10-15-2006, 12:44 AM #1Mac Lover
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp In case the previous owner installed the utility in a different location, go to the Spotlight icon at the upper right corner of your MacBook and search for Boot Camp Assistant. Click on that app if it shows up. (If none, just download the Bootcamp installer at http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/. Install it and run it)
Then choose option 3 to Restore volume to a single drive thus erasing the windows partition.Mac Pro 2.66, iMac Intel Core 2.8 Duo 24", MBP 2.3Ghz i5
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- 10-15-2006, 02:18 AM #3Administrator
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp In addition, if you find Ditoy's instructions complicated, you should go back to your reseller and have them remove it. BootCamp is a user-installable application, no reseller should be pre-installing it without the buyer's consent. I'm assuming, of course, that your reseller was the one who placed it there in the first place.
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- 10-15-2006, 02:28 AM #4Super Moderator
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp There are two ways to verify if you have a windows partition:
- If 2 volumes appear on your desktop, see attachment.
- Holding the OPTION key before the Mac logo appears upon bootup will also show you a Windows partition if it is actually in your system.Mac Pro 2.66, iMac Intel Core 2.8 Duo 24", MBP 2.3Ghz i5
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- 10-15-2006, 02:02 PM #5Mac Lover
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp i followed Ditoy's advice and downloaded the Boot Camp installer. everything worked out fine. thanks for the help!
- 10-15-2006, 04:24 PM #6Super Moderator
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp Oh great! Enjoy more hard drive space.
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- 11-03-2006, 05:53 PM #7Mac User
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp Hi. I have decided to run Parallels Desktop instead for my Windows needs instead of rebooting everytime to use Windows. Anyway how can I delete the Windows partition to reclaim the HDD space? Many thanks!
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp Run Bootcamp again under Apps-Utilities. There will be an option there to restore drive to a single Mac partition, erasing the previous Windows installation.
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- 11-03-2006, 07:10 PM #9Mac User
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp Ang tanga ko talaga ganon lang pala, sige maraming salamat ditoy_eagle
- 11-03-2006, 10:25 PM #10Super Moderator
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Re: uninstalling Boot Camp Heheh don't say tanga ka. Things are so simple with the mac that we tend to overlook these easy steps.
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