Timeline for How do I delete a BootCamp partition using Terminal's diskutil?
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 16:21 | vote | accept | Jules | ||
| Sep 8, 2016 at 23:45 | answer | added | user200514 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 12:22 | answer | added | Ilona Rapp | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 7:14 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 17, 2013 at 19:56 | vote | accept | Jules | ||
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| Jan 17, 2013 at 18:20 | answer | added | user39813 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 5:30 | answer | added | Marc Lucke | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jul 4, 2012 at 3:29 | comment | added | Chris Page | Deleting a BootCamp partition with BootCamp Assistant may not be identical to deleting partitions with Disk Utility, and if BootCamp Assistant isn’t letting you delete the partition things may be messed up in a way that’s important to resolve before deleting the partition. At the very least it’s a clue as to what’s wrong. Have you tried contacting Apple about this? (1-800-SOS-APPLE, for example.) | |
| Jul 2, 2012 at 16:35 | answer | added | pmdj | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 23:47 | comment | added | Jules | I can boot into Windows, and it works through Parallels as well. I'm using 10.7.4, but let's not dwell on the BootCamp issue. I just want to use Terminal to delete the partition. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 20:55 | comment | added | Chris Page | Also: can you boot into Windows? Is the BootCamp configuration valid? | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 20:54 | comment | added | Chris Page | One thing mentioned in the BootCamp manual manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf is that you should quit other applications and there shouldn't be any other users logged in. Have you tried a Restart followed by logging in with Shift pressed to ensure nothing starts up, then opening BootCamp Assistant? | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | Chris Page | By the way, what version of OS X? | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 20:42 | comment | added | Chris Page | I don't know if DU is supposed to do that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's on purpose, to prevent you from getting into the situation described in that discussion I linked to. Why BootCamp won't let you uninstall is a mystery. You might try calling 1-800-SOS-APPLE for support. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 14:23 | comment | added | Jules | No I didn't customize the partitions. After setting up BootCamp, I lost all control of partitions via Disk Utility. Can't resize, delete, or add partitions. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 12:24 | comment | added | Chris Page | Did you customize the partitions after installing BootCamp? This discussion may provide some useful information: discussions.apple.com/thread/3698348. The executive summary is that if you've got more than two OS partitions, you may need to backup your OS X partition and reformat the drive (or at least delete the existing partitions), and then restore your OS X partition. | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 0:46 | comment | added | Jules | It was the second thing I tried; all the partition controls are greyed out. | |
| Jun 28, 2012 at 21:38 | comment | added | Vickash | Have you tried Disk Utility in the Applications folder? | |
| Jun 28, 2012 at 17:21 | history | asked | Jules | CC BY-SA 3.0 |