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 complete erasing of your entire disk is not necessarily a requirement. On Apr 29, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn <jonc...@cox.net> wrote:
> 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 will > erase all data on your disk, but after Mavericks is completed being loaded > you will be able to restore from your time machine partition your penal > applications and files. > > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > > > > On Apr 28, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Shannon Dyer <solsticesin...@gmail.com> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 mehg...@icloud.com -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
