I believe if you run the bootcamp utility you can re-merge your bootcamp
partition back into the main partition. If that does not work, and you have a
backup available, then run disk utility from the installation and use the
partition tab to re partition your disk to have one partition. This
Again though, you don't need to reformat your entire disk unless Mavericks
proves to have problems no one else is having. Just erase the Windows partition
to merge it back into your Macintosh HD partition, then install Mavericks. Of
course, you should back everything up just in case, but a
Hello, all.
I have a macbook that I purchased in 2010, just before lion was released. I'm
thinking of updating to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, but have a question
before doing so.
When I first got the machine, I created a small windows partition using
bootcamp. Windows XP is the operating
Hi Shannon,
If you go into the Utilities folder in your applications folder, and go into
Disk Utility app, you can format your disk from there. You'll probably want to
do a clean installation of Mavericks, and format your disk from the options
before you install Mavericks, but the process is
You can certainly erase your Bootcamp partition, but you can't erase your OS X
partition while booted into that same OS. You will need to make a bootable
drive and use that, a process detailed in tons of guides online and made dead
simple in Mavericks. A bootable drive is handy to have anyway,
