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    need bootcamp help asap!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by champloobob, Nov 28, 2007.

  1. champloobob

    champloobob Notebook Enthusiast

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    So i have another image of a partition on my mac and its 50 gigs of free space and im trying to run boot camp but every time i click continue it tells me to update my system before i continue on. All updates on mac are installed. I dont know what to do any help is greatly appreciated!
     
    champloobob, Nov 28, 2007
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    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Are you running Tiger or Leopard?
     
    saturnotaku, Nov 28, 2007
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  3. champloobob

    champloobob Notebook Enthusiast

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    leopard, i have this spare image of a 50 gig hd that wont go away. How do i make it go away? When i updated to leopard it wiped windows off but left the partition, but its a partition of nothing!
     
    champloobob, Nov 28, 2007
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    Boot Camp assistant does not let you merge the partition? Try running Disk Utility and see if you can erase the partition or format it into HFS+.
     
    Budding, Nov 29, 2007
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    First try the Boot Camp Assistant (Applications > Utilities): Removing Windows from Your Computer. Then if what Budding suggested does not work, try erasing the partition again, but format as MS-DOS (FAT32). Then use the Boot Camp Assistant to Restore the Disk to a single volume.

    To erase/format the partition open Disk Utility (Application > Utilities). Select the partition in the left pane, click the Erase tab, choose the Volume Format, and click the Erase button.
     
    Xander, Nov 29, 2007
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