scottmich Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 I am currently dualbooting OS X and XP with the help of Acronis OS Selector. I am confident with my OS X setup and I would like to move to OS X only. There are a coupe things I would like to do but am unsure of: 1) Remove Acronis from the MBR and have OS X boot on power up. Acronis served me well but there have been a few times where it gets fouled up and is unable to boot any OS's. To fix I had to do some sort of repair to the MBR with the XP disk, then boot into XP and setup Acronis again. I would just like to take Acronis out of the picture and always boot OS X. Unfortunately my XP installation is hosed and I cant get in to uninstall Acronis that way. 2) I would like to delete my XP partition and reclaim the space it is using. I would like to expand my OS X primary partition to use up the free space left by deleting the XP partition. Thanks in advance for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiggamirk Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 you should have created a bootable acronis cd, then you can deinstall the bootloader and make your osx partition active during the uninstall. for 2) you wont be able to resize the partition. i tried, trust me, you do not want to do that if you like your data.. wait until its time for a reinstall, then sweep your harddrive and make the partitions from scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogabean Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Yeah I went through the same thing when I decided I wanted to go OS X only on the machine. Better to back up all data on another drive and reinstall using all of the space. I would however highly recommend a small space left to toss in some of your more important stuff in case something happens to your OS X install and you have to reinstall as a recovery.. with the nature of the hackintosh and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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