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, since you can run Disk Utility from it or do other work on your Mac while not booted into OS X itself, and you can install Mavericks on as many computers as you want with that same drive.
All that said, you may not need to do a clean install at all. Erase the Bootcamp partition if you don't need it anymore, but the only reason to do a clean install is if odd things are happening on your Mac that permissions repairs and other troubleshooting don't fix. Before going through the hassle of deleting and then having to restore all your files, apps, and settings, be sure you really need to do a clean install. On Apr 28, 2014, at 9:41 PM, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 the same. > Once you get to Disk Utility, you'll select your HD from the disks table, and > choose the "erase" tab. You can then erase the disk, and its partitions, > which will get rid of the XP one and leave the drive free for Mavericks. > Rachel > On Apr 28, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Shannon Dyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 system that runs there. I would like >> to update, but I want to make sure that the update will take away the >> partition. Since windows XP is no longer supported, I want the machine to >> run the mac os only. Is this possible? If so, could someone tell me how to >> make it happen? >> >> I would appreciate any help you can offer. >> >> Shannon >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
