MacBook Question.

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When I bought my Macbook last year second hand it has boot-camp on it and this is what my question is about.

My mac hard drive is nearly full and the windows disk is empty (boot-camp thingy) , is there any way I can merge the 2 drives back into one?

I really need to keep my office program as I didn't get the disk when I bought the machine.

So I guess reformatting is out:thinking:
 
If its partitioned you will need to reformat - to be honest grab an external HD for the price its well worth it - plus if anything does go wrong, you have a back up ;)
 
Had already considered an external drive, still leaves me with an empty windows partition though:bang::bang:
 
Have you tried just deleting the partition in Disk Utility? I'm sure that's how I got rid of my Bootcamp partition.
 
Oh that would be great, cant seem to see how to do this, any suggestions?
 
Gary said:
sorry, just deleted my post.. just double checking it as there seems to be some exceptions
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I just removed mine after you put yours in which you have now removed !
 
You can format it back to hfs(mac) and use it. A bit like a c: and d: but you can't merge the two together easily. As cowasaki says, backup to an image, partition the drive back to 1 piece and restore the image. It's a doddle in disk utility
 
What will work is, use something like carbon copy cloner to copy your main working drive onto an external drive then re-partition the main drive as one drive then copy it back. There is an option within boot-camp but it hasn't worked the two times I have tried! Then there was the idea added then removed by GARY ;)
 
cowasaki said:
What will work is, use something like carbon copy cloner to copy your main working drive onto an external drive then re-partition the main drive as one drive then copy it back. There is an option within boot-camp but it hasn't worked the two times I have tried! Then there was the idea added then removed by GARY ;)
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:)
 
ok, looks like i was right.. just wanted to double check :)

http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitysize_3.htm

'For practical purposes, this means that if you want to increase the size of a volume, you may need to delete the partition below that volume. You will lose all data on the partition you delete (so be sure to back up everything on it first), but you can expand the selected volume without losing any of its data.'


please back it up first though.. i dont want to be hearing from your solicitor :)
 
Brilliant Awesome :D:D

That worked a treat, so easy and done in 3 mins.

Said it before but this place and you guy's are brilliant.

Thanks Gary and co:thumbs:
 
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