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gettting rid of bootcamp
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GuillaumeB
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Oct 27, 2007, 04:01 PM
 
I have prepared my computer for a Leopard installation

I had Tiger and XP on my MacBook Pro
This afternoon I launched the bootcamp utility to get rid of the Windows Partition... it took like just 2 minutes and now my hard drive is 149 GB with only Tiger...

Is it normal? I mean can it possibly have formatted the partition and deleted it in just two minutes and a reboot???
Also hasn't my MacBook pro 2,4GHz a 160 GB hard drive?
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Oct 27, 2007, 04:13 PM
 
Hard disk sizes are measured with the unit GB meaning 1 billion bytes on the box, but computers measure a GB as 1073741824 bytes (that's 1024^3, if the number seems arbitrary). So a 160 GB hard drive has 149 GB of usable space.

And I think all it needs to do to delete the Windows partition is mark the space as belonging to the Mac partition, so it shouldn't take long.
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