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Removing Windows from Your Computer

You can use Boot Camp Assistant to remove Windows from your computer and restore your hard disk to a single partition.

Warning: Make a backup of the important information on your computer before removing Windows. Windows software and all other information on the Windows partition will be erased.

To remove Windows from your computer:

Step 1

In Mac OS X, quit all open applications and log out any other users on your computer.

Step 2

Open Boot Camp Assistant, in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.

Step 3

Select “Restore the startup disk to a single volume,” and then click Continue.

If your computer has multiple internal disks and you used Boot Camp to create a Windows partition on one of them, follow steps 1 and 2 above, and then click “Create or remove a Windows partition.” Click Continue and select the disk with Windows on it. Then select “Restore to a single Mac OS partition.”

If you installed Windows on a single-volume disk, use Disk Utility (located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder) to erase the disk and reformat it as a Mac OS X volume.

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