Removing the XP Partition without OS X reinstall?

[Capt. Kyle]

Hello,

I'd like to remove the XP partition without reinstalling OS X, is this possible? I've gone into disk manager and I can't even touch the partition. By the way, I can't boot into XP.

Thanks in advanced for the help,
Kyle

[Chungy_KR]

What you could do, is to purchace iPartition and get the access to iPartition BETA (which runs in OSX), delete the XP partition and Enlarge OSX partition. Not 100% sure that it will work (if you partitioned the XP one with NTFS format, etc.), as I just erased the whole drive off and installed OSX from scratch.

[iFrodo]

Hello,

I'd like to remove the XP partition without reinstalling OS X, is this possible? I've gone into disk manager and I can't even touch the partition. By the way, I can't boot into XP.

Thanks in advanced for the help,
Kyle

If you used Boot Camp, just launch the Boot Camp Assistant (in Applications/Utilities) and select the option to remove XP.

That's it! :)

[Capt. Kyle]

If you used Boot Camp, just launch the Boot Camp Assistant (in Applications/Utilities) and select the option to remove XP.

That's it! :)

I've tried this. :( It says it's removing it for about one second, and then it asks to restart and it restarts and it's still there.

Is there a way to do it without iPartition?

By the way, Im on a 20" iMac

[Robert L]

From OSX desktop logged in as administrator, open console window and run FDISK program to delete XP's mbr partition entry.
Then reboot from install dvd, open console window, unmount harddisk using DISKUTIL program, and call GPT program to remove XP's gpt partition entry.
Now you can create another HFS+ volume in the free space previously occupied by XP. Last time I checked, enlarging existing HFS+ volumes was was not yet functional in DISKUTIL (only shrinking).