| In Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard, | | | | "Cannot delete partition" |
| you can use Boot Camp utility to make your system | | | | If you try to unmount the Boot Camp partition and |
| dual-boot with Microsoft Windows computer. It | | | | eject it, nothing happens. You can see a map of the |
| enables you to use both Mac OS X and Windows | | | | hard drive when you mark your hard drive on top of |
| operating system on same machine. It is generally | | | | the sidebar. |
| helpful for the software developers and software | | | | How to delete a partition in such cases? |
| testers. However, in some cases, this configuration | | | | Go through the underwritten steps to delete a |
| may cause serious problems, which leads to data loss. | | | | partition in such situations: |
| In such circumstances, you need to use Mac | | | | Insert Mac OS X installation disk and boot your |
| Recovery solutions to get your mission critical data | | | | system from it by pressing C key at startup. |
| back. | | | | Select Utilities from top bar and select Disk Utility. |
| When you try to delete the Boot Camp partition, | | | | Select your hard drive from sidebar in Disk Utility |
| which is created by Boot Camp utility to install | | | | application. |
| Windows partition, the process cannot complete. | | | | Choose 'Partition' from the application window. |
| When you go to Boot Camp utility and click continue | | | | It displays a map. Select the partition, which you |
| on Boot Camp to restore your hard drive, you get | | | | want to delete, from map. |
| an error message similar to the following one: | | | | Click minus sign. It deletes the partition. |
| "BootCamp cannot restore Macintosh HD into one | | | | If the above method does not work, formatting the |
| single partition." | | | | hard drive and operating system reinstallation is the |
| The partition cannot be deleted even with the Disk | | | | only way to go for. However, this method also |
| Utility. Disk Utility lists all the hard drive volumes in | | | | removes all the data from your Mac OS X hard drive |
| sidebar, but you get the below error message when | | | | and causes serious data loss that requires Data |
| you select the partition and press deleted key: | | | | Recovery Mac to be fixed. |