Comments on: Remove Boot Camp Partitions from a Three Partition Setup http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/ Rants and Raves from South Kingstown, RI Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:00:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Curtis Zhao http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-372697 Curtis Zhao Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:29:53 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-372697 Ummmm.... Carlos Orozco, can you please tell me where to find the "gpt" software because I am having trouble finding it and it is really bugging me that I cannot delete these two useless hard drive partitions that are sitting on my desktop. Plz and thank you Curtis Zhao Ummmm…. Carlos Orozco, can you please tell me where to find the “gpt” software because I am having trouble finding it and it is really bugging me that I cannot delete these two useless hard drive partitions that are sitting on my desktop.

Plz and thank you

Curtis Zhao

]]> By: Carlos Orozco http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-367814 Carlos Orozco Sat, 16 May 2009 03:41:47 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-367814 @Noob: Disk Utility does not delete partitions at all (I'm running Mac OS 10.5.6, Leopard). You still have to use gpt in order to delete the partitions. Gpt as a tool is part of the EFI specification; diskutil has no extensions that may use gpt to delete partitions. Initially I thought pretty much as you did that Disk Utility would delete the extra partitions but it didn't; so if you haven't tried, please be extra careful. @Brian Jepson (cc et. al): Thanks for posting such a great guide, and thanks to the other people posting extra details about their experiences, this really helped me fixing this problem. I found annoying not being able to delete partitions using diskutil, but being patient, reading carefully and having the OS X installation disc handy really helped get things moving. Your guide, even if it's 2-years old, it is still as valid today as when you originally wrote it. :-) @Noob:
Disk Utility does not delete partitions at all (I’m running Mac OS 10.5.6, Leopard). You still have to use gpt in order to delete the partitions. Gpt as a tool is part of the EFI specification; diskutil has no extensions that may use gpt to delete partitions.

Initially I thought pretty much as you did that Disk Utility would delete the extra partitions but it didn’t; so if you haven’t tried, please be extra careful.

@Brian Jepson (cc et. al):
Thanks for posting such a great guide, and thanks to the other people posting extra details about their experiences, this really helped me fixing this problem. I found annoying not being able to delete partitions using diskutil, but being patient, reading carefully and having the OS X installation disc handy really helped get things moving.

Your guide, even if it’s 2-years old, it is still as valid today as when you originally wrote it. :-)

]]> By: Brian Jepson http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-331582 Brian Jepson Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:28:34 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-331582 Good question, n00b. This is a rather old article (2 years old almost to the day). AFAIK, Disk Utility either didn't support this, or it didn't support it reliably. Good question, n00b. This is a rather old article (2 years old almost to the day). AFAIK, Disk Utility either didn’t support this, or it didn’t support it reliably.

]]> By: n00b http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-331549 n00b Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:09:11 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-331549 Unless I'm not grasping the goal of this article at all (which I might not be), there is a much easier way to do this. Just fire up Disk Utility, delete the extra 3rd partition, and expand the OSX partition into the free space. Boot camp sees it as a normal harddrive again, and you are home free. Unless I’m not grasping the goal of this article at all (which I might not be), there is a much easier way to do this. Just fire up Disk Utility, delete the extra 3rd partition, and expand the OSX partition into the free space. Boot camp sees it as a normal harddrive again, and you are home free.

]]> By: N00b http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-331545 N00b Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:54:45 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-331545 I'm sorry if this question seems incredibly n00bish, but bear with me; I've only had my new iMac for about a week. Couldn't you just go into Disk Utility, delete the the Windows partition and the extra 3rd partition, and resize the OSX partition to take up the free space? Or am I missing something important? I’m sorry if this question seems incredibly n00bish, but bear with me; I’ve only had my new iMac for about a week. Couldn’t you just go into Disk Utility, delete the the Windows partition and the extra 3rd partition, and resize the OSX partition to take up the free space? Or am I missing something important?

]]> By: Emmanuel http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-183312 Emmanuel Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:09:27 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-183312 Hello, I accidentally formatted my hard drive under Bootcamp as NTFS. I cannot install Windows XP and I can't install Leopard either (the Disk appears to be only readable). I have now 131 Go out of 250 as NTFS and I don't know what happened to the other 120 (or so) Go. Will these commandes help removing the wrong partition ? Thank you for your help ! Hello,
I accidentally formatted my hard drive under Bootcamp as NTFS. I cannot install Windows XP and I can’t install Leopard either (the Disk appears to be only readable).
I have now 131 Go out of 250 as NTFS and I don’t know what happened to the other 120 (or so) Go. Will these commandes help removing the wrong partition ?
Thank you for your help !

]]> By: Designer http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-173787 Designer Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:48:19 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-173787 Thanks a lot for sharing this with us. Extremely helpful! Thanks a lot for sharing this with us. Extremely helpful!

]]> By: Garry van den Berg http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-161523 Garry van den Berg Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:50:16 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-161523 Dear Brian, I used Bootcamp until I instaled Leopard I deleted the Bootcamp partition and installed everything. I installed Bootcamp 2 and there is 131 GB left of the 250 and I can not install Windows on my iMac. Do you have a solution? Thank you very much!! ;) Best Regards Garry Dear Brian,
I used Bootcamp until I instaled Leopard I deleted the Bootcamp partition and installed everything. I installed Bootcamp 2 and there is 131 GB left of the 250 and I can not install Windows on my iMac. Do you have a solution?
Thank you very much!!
;)
Best Regards Garry

]]> By: jeangui111 http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-148616 jeangui111 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:31:12 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-148616 I had an issue with the gpt command to remove the Fat32 partition I created after having resized my Mac OS partition. The "gpt show disk0" command gave me "unable to open device ‘disk0′: Resource busy" error. What I did to remove the partition is: ------------------------------ * Boot with Mac OS X install disk by olding the "option" key. * Launch "Disk Utilities" * Select the 2 partitions under the internal disk (both Mac OS and Fat32 partition) * Unmount both of them * Quit the Disk Utilities * Launch "Terminal" * Enter the "gpt show disk0" command to be sure that my Fat32 partition was partition 3 * Quit the Terminal For an unknow reason, both partitions are automatically mounted back again. * Relaunch "Disk Utilities" * Select the 2 partitions under the internal disk (both Mac OS and Fat32 partition) * Unmount both of them * Quit the Disk Utilities * Relaunch "Terminal" * Enter the "gpt remove -i 3 disk0" command to remove Fat32 partition * Quit the Terminal Reboot as usual => That's it! now I've got free space, and I can resize my Mac OS partition to its initial size. I had an issue with the gpt command to remove the Fat32 partition I created after having resized my Mac OS partition.
The “gpt show disk0″ command gave me “unable to open device ‘disk0′: Resource busy” error.

What I did to remove the partition is:
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* Boot with Mac OS X install disk by olding the “option” key.
* Launch “Disk Utilities”
* Select the 2 partitions under the internal disk (both Mac OS and Fat32 partition)
* Unmount both of them
* Quit the Disk Utilities
* Launch “Terminal”
* Enter the “gpt show disk0″ command to be sure that my Fat32 partition was partition 3
* Quit the Terminal

For an unknow reason, both partitions are automatically mounted back again.

* Relaunch “Disk Utilities”
* Select the 2 partitions under the internal disk (both Mac OS and Fat32 partition)
* Unmount both of them
* Quit the Disk Utilities
* Relaunch “Terminal”
* Enter the “gpt remove -i 3 disk0″ command to remove Fat32 partition
* Quit the Terminal

Reboot as usual => That’s it!

now I’ve got free space, and I can resize my Mac OS partition to its initial size.

]]> By: all2ez http://www.jepstone.net/blog/2007/01/02/remove-boot-camp-partitions-from-a-three-partition-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-137130 all2ez Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:18:58 +0000 http://jepstone.net/blog/?p=591#comment-137130 For anyone looking for another solution to this problem, I followed this page and it works without needing the command line stuff: http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp#Restoring_your_Mac_to_its_original_state I had 30GB HFS+ Mac partition, 80GB FAT32 data partition, and 32GB NTFS Windows XP partition. I used the partition editor on the Ubuntu live cd to delete the FAT32 and NTFS Partitions. For anyone looking for another solution to this problem, I followed this page and it works without needing the command line stuff:

http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp#Restoring_your_Mac_to_its_original_state

I had 30GB HFS+ Mac partition, 80GB FAT32 data partition, and 32GB NTFS Windows XP partition. I used the partition editor on the Ubuntu live cd to delete the FAT32 and NTFS Partitions.

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