Help with removing Windows XP from Mac Book Pro

[bluebug]

Hi all,
My well meaning mother got me a new MacBookPro with Windows installed (which I don't need or want). I would like to have my hard drive space back so I can install the rest of my mac programs, but windows is taking up too much of the partition.

Is there a way to remove Windows and get that partition back to OSX? I have tried installing Bootcamp to uninstall Windows, but there is not enough hard disk space for the installation!

Any ideas?

 

[projectle]

What you will want to do is first boot into OS X Install Disc, delete the Windows Partition with the Disk Utility and note the Disk ID, then go into your terminal.

# resizeVolume <diskID> <size>

Problem solved.

 

[bluebug]

Thanks!

Thanks so much! I don't know why that didn't even occur to me...

 

[iCeQuBe]

What you will want to do is first boot into OS X Install Disc, delete the Windows Partition with the Disk Utility and note the Disk ID, then go into your terminal.

# resizeVolume <diskID> <size>

Problem solved.

You could also just re-run bootcamp and then select revert to original and it should delete the windows partition and reclaim the space.

 

[dmw007]

Getting rid of Windows, my favorite thing to hear bluebug. Congrats on your new MacBook Pro.

 

[iCeQuBe]

Getting rid of Windows, my favorite thing to hear bluebug. Congrats on your new MacBook Pro.

True... It is a good choice if you can do without windows completely!

 

[Bulldog69]

I need to remove windows xp also, but in mi case the macbook does not have mac os installed, I tried to boot from the mac os disk but wont boot. Please help.

 

[HLdan]

I need to remove windows xp also, but in mi case the macbook does not have mac os installed, I tried to boot from the mac os disk but wont boot. Please help.

How is it that the Mac OS is not installed?