How do I uninstall windows 7 from my mac?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at
5:12 pm
I just installed windows 7 onto my mac. But apparently I need to reinstall bootcamp to switch back over to my mac settings. But I cant find the software that came with my mac to do that. Is there anyway I can uninstall windows 7 from my mac?
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So you wiped out your entire Mac partition? Maybe not.
You can download a Boot Camp software for windows in Apple.com, or you can insert the DVD that came with your mac, that should give you options to install drivers and necessary software.
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You don’t need to reinstall Bootcamp to switch to your MacOS install. Assuming you can still get into Windows 7, you just go to Control Panel > Bootcamp and specify which partition you want to make default.
If that doesn’t work, you can restart your computer and press "Option" when you hear the startup tone (or sooner). It’ll prompt you to select your Windows or MacOS partition to boot from. To make it permanent from MacOS, go to Spotlight > Startup Disk, then select which one you want to be the default.
If you still want to completely remove Bootcamp and your Windows partition see the link below or ready the Bootcamp guide from Apple.
What the…? You can’t boot back to OS X, so you want to kill Windows? Doesn’t make any sense.
To fix Windows, download and install the update for BootCamp that provides the control panel to choose OS X and the drivers for Windows &.
To delete Windows, boot to OS X… (see above)…open Disk Utility, select the Windows partition, select the "Erase" partition and erase. Then select the "Partition" tab, and move the dividing slider down to the bottom, click Okay.