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Mac OSX Lion: Extending Partitions

Aug 15, 2011 2:41PM PDT

On my macbook a 160gb hd, i previously ran Leopard on a 45gb partition and windows 7 pro on the rest. At the time i liked the macbook hardware and the ability to have both OS's. Now Enjoying Lion i have actually started using mac just as much if not more than windows but its currently installed on that partition. How can i delete my windows partition and extend my mac partition without having to reinstall lion?

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you can delete the Windows partition
Aug 15, 2011 10:01PM PDT

by running the Boot Camp installer again, assuming that you used Boot Camp to put Windows 7 on the disk.

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Boot Camp
Aug 16, 2011 2:44AM PDT

I did use boot camp to install windows 7 on my other partition while I was on OSX Leopard 10.5, since then i have already erased the data from my windows 7 partition and upgraded to OSX Lion. Using the disc utility i cannot extend my mac partition or delete my windows one. Now loading boot camp it tells me that my startup disc must be in a single partition or already partitioned by boot camp.

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Ive fixed the problem
Aug 16, 2011 2:50AM PDT

I almost feel stupid now. I was just not realizing how to delete or even add a partition using the disk utility considering i haven't had to remove one and boot camp added the one for windows. Even simple plus and minus buttons below the partition managed to confuse me. Thanks for the help.

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(NT) Pleased you got it sorted out
Aug 16, 2011 6:06AM PDT