How to Remove a Windows Boot Camp Partition From Your Mac

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Posted March 27, 2012 at 3:32pm by iClarified

These are instructions on how to remove a Windows Boot Camp partition and expand your Mac OS X partition to regain the newly available hard drive space.

Step One
Launch Boot Camp Assistant from the Applications:Utilities folder.

How to Remove a Windows Boot Camp Partition From Your Mac

Step Two
Click the Continue button.

Step Three
Check only the Install or remove Windows 7 option and click Continue.

Step Four
Choose Restore disk to a single Mac OS partition and click Continue.

Step Five
Click the Restore button to begin.

Step Six
You will be asked to login with your Administrative username and password. Enter these and click the OK button.

Step Seven
You disk will now be repartitioned to remove the Windows volume.

Step Eight
You will be informed that your disk has been restored as a single volume. Click the Quit button.

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RomanAsh - January 15, 2018 at 2:22am

Mine doesn't let me continue to remove stuff. it says: "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows." I'm stuck...

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mikeelray - November 2, 2017 at 12:15am

what if there is no third option to remove?????

What+To+Do - May 12, 2017 at 5:06am

The problem with this method are when you restart your Macbook, it will not load your default Mac OS X, but prompt an black screen error message : "No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key". Any bright ideas to resolve this problem, guy out there if any???

RomanAsh - January 15, 2018 at 2:21am

You hold the key "option" before loading the pc and you choose OS there. I have same issue and thats why i was here to remove the windows completely.

Megan Collins - August 6, 2016 at 7:50pm

When I try to launch it it says "The application “Boot Camp Assistant” can’t be opened". I don't know how to proceed. Any suggestions and or links recommendations on a expert to seek?-Megan

Felipe_Reyes - July 30, 2016 at 9:18pm

Will our Mac files still be intact?

Eric Garcia - July 14, 2016 at 4:40pm

can you still keep the product key

Abdul M. Khan - May 11, 2016 at 7:16am

|Nice suggestion ! Thanks you

Pratama - October 21, 2014 at 3:45am

Works like a charm! Thank you~

victorctk - October 9, 2014 at 7:42am

Thanx, works great!

Dylan - May 29, 2014 at 7:38pm

Do you get the reactivated product key with this?

adeelayubiahassandad - February 15, 2014 at 1:30pm

in step 3 there is no option of remove window 7 ....only two options one for window support software and one for using mac disk......what i do ireally want to get rid of window 7

Alok - December 21, 2013 at 2:45pm

It worked like charm..... Thanks you so much.

Mark Livingston - September 18, 2013 at 7:22pm

My mac says bootcamp assistance has expired how do I do it now?

Ruksheen - June 14, 2013 at 5:01pm

thanks alot... wanted to delete bootcamp for a while but didnt know how. Really easy steps and it was done in 5 mins. Thanks again!

Michiel - April 30, 2013 at 5:16pm

My bootcamp crashed while partitioning, how to recover this space?..

Jacob Elias - April 19, 2013 at 1:35am

Be careful! If you have installed VM Ware or Parallels tools onto your boot camp, be sure to uninstall the tools on windows before removing the partition. I learned the hard way that when you don't you can't get the space back or use it for a boot camp partiton again until you re-format the entire hard drive.

Lora - March 20, 2013 at 3:17pm

Is there any risk when doing this of deleting things on the mac hardrive. I am completely out of space on my mac platform and want to do this but I'm not very tech savy and want to make sure I don't make a mistake

LN - October 21, 2012 at 6:48pm

Aaand, see to it that you have > 10 Gb of space on your hard drive before running this. Otherwise the last part where the disk is to be combined into its full size will fail.