[bradoz71]

So ive got bootcamp, and the XP disk, and im desperate to get XP up and running on my iMac!

But alas, im having troubles with the fact of my startup disk being in two partions! This is my first mac ever, and ive only had it a good two months so im still learning a good lot about them and how they tick. Ive looked around the forum and found no real answer or guide to how to restore my startup disk into one partion.

Can anyone plz help?

[Barefoot Matt]

I don't have any experience with this myself, but I think what you're supposed to do is boot up into disk utility (hold D during startup with the OS X disk in the drive). Failing that, what did you use to divide it into two partitions in the first place? Chances are that tool can also change it back.

Back up your data before you try anything.

[bradoz71]

Originally Posted by Barefoot Matt

I don't have any experience with this myself, but I think what you're supposed to do is boot up into disk utility (hold D during startup with the OS X disk in the drive). Failing that, what did you use to divide it into two partitions in the first place? Chances are that tool can also change it back.

Back up your data before you try anything.

I didnt partion mine, it must have done it itself cause i cant recall it asking my if i wanted it partioned or not during set up

Ill give what ya said a try ^^

[Maflynn]

The only way I know to get back to a single partition is to boot up from the osx install disk by holding the C key. I haven't tried (or heard of ) holding the D key.

If you reboot with the install disc then follow these steps.
Once booted into the install, select from the tools menu, disk utility,
select the disk, and click on partition.
From the partition screen, select a single partition.
Click the options button, make sure the GUID partition type is selected (not sure if bootcamp changes this)
Click partition
Close the disk utility
Start reinstalling OSX


As you probably already guess the above operation will create a single partition but it will wipe out any data you have as it will reformat your hard drive after it re-partitioned the drive.

If you reboot with the install disk in the drive holding down the D key, this doesn't get you anywhere. If you repartition the drive, you lose the ability to boot into it, you also lose your data and you need to reboot and hold the C key to reinstall OSX.

Mike

[ghporter]

Boot Camp seems to like being in charge of partitioning the drive. It's written with the assumption that your Mac is set up like it came from the factory, so it expects to find one partition and (so far as I've seen reported) refuses to work if it finds the drive already partitioned.

Sorry.

[bradoz71]

Originally Posted by Maflynn

The only way I know to get back to a single partition is to boot up from the osx install disk by holding the C key. I haven't tried (or heard of ) holding the D key.

If you reboot with the install disc then follow these steps.
Once booted into the install, select from the tools menu, disk utility,
select the disk, and click on partition.
From the partition screen, select a single partition.
Click the options button, make sure the GUID partition type is selected (not sure if bootcamp changes this)
Click partition
Close the disk utility
Start reinstalling OSX


As you probably already guess the above operation will create a single partition but it will wipe out any data you have as it will reformat your hard drive after it re-partitioned the drive.

If you reboot with the install disk in the drive holding down the D key, this doesn't get you anywhere. If you repartition the drive, you lose the ability to boot into it, you also lose your data and you need to reboot and hold the C key to reinstall OSX.

Mike

So are ya advising against me re-partioning my start-up disk to a single partion?