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    Reverting to a single Mac OSX drive

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by jaybit, Jun 3, 2010.

  1. jaybit

    jaybit Notebook Geek

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    Hey guys.

    So I have a MB unibody and had bootcamp with windows 7 but I am going to sell so I wanted to do a clean install for the buyer. I ran my original osx disk, which at the time was regular leopard and what accidentally happened was that installed leopard on my bootcamp drive. So no i have snow leopard on my main drive and leopard on my bootcamp drive when i go into boot camp assistant it does not allow me the third option of removing the bootcamp drive and making just one drive. Any help would be appreciated as I am going to be selling this soon and I don't want to pass on the problem.

    Thanks

    Oh here is the window that pops up when I try to use bootcamp assistant
     

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  2. Melody

    Melody How's It Made Addict

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    Can't you kill the Bootcamp partition through the Disk Utility?
     
    Melody, Jun 3, 2010
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  3. jaybit

    jaybit Notebook Geek

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    Yah that was the next thing i tried right after I posted this thread and it worked lol. On another note is there a reason I don't get the option to erase and restore to factory settings when I try to reinstall my snow leopard DVD? Ive done it once and all my applications and settings remain intact.
     
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    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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  5. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    There's no need for a full OS X reinstall.

    Slide in your Mac Installation DVD and boot from it (by holding down alt at the grey screen). Go into the installation and from the menus choose Utilities > Disk Utility.

    Do a verify disk and permissions, repair what's needed and then reboot back into OS X and try Boot Camp Assistant again.
     
    cdnalsi, Jun 4, 2010
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