suryoyo Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Guys, I've previously set up osx on a separate partition and made it the default boot in my hard disk. I tried to remove it by actually deleting the partion (the osx one) that hosed my whole hard disk and I had to reinstall windows again. Is there a way to safely remove OSx and bring back my installation to the way it was when I first installed windows w/o OSx? Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetto Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Is there only one Hard Disk in your machine and have you already re-installed windows? If so, you chances are about Zero... You could try windows tools like Partition Doctor or various Data-Recovery tools (I like getdata.com) but... Moral-Of-The-Story: ALWAYS save an image of functioning System-Installs and do not use Macs Disk-Utility when playing around with Windows partitions and vice-versa. happy re-covery/installing, n.m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryoyo Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 Yeah there is only one hard disk. I install OsX after windows. Windows was already installed on the drive. So you're saying I can't remove OsX from my harddisk any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubbel Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 no it doesnt say......go to your osx patched install dvd......let the setup start up.....then go to disk utilty....mark your hdd(that's the first ) and format the hdd to windows filesystem or free space(not to mac journal)....then reboot with a windows install cd and you can install windows again sorry for my poor english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryoyo Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 I guess I'm asking whether I can just remove OsX without reinstalling windows. If I formatted the second partition under the OsX installer as an NTFS file system wouldn't that just bring everything back to the way it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gubbel Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 if you have 2 partition, you can lock the windows partition with disk utility and format your hfs+ partition without losing your windows install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suryoyo Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 Gubble thx for the reply. Sorry to be a little ignoratnt but which disk utility are you talking about the OsX installer? How do you lock it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Have a bootable fsdisk just incase you need to make XP your active partition. I just open up windows and right-click my computer and click Manage. In there, under one of the trees you will see all the partitions on your system. Right-click OSX and delete. But make sure your XP partition is active. Otherwise XP wont load and you'll need to use fsdisk. If XP partition isn't active then right-click the partition and select set-as-active. Then reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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