arixis Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hi, i have a dell inspiron 8600 with dual boot (Winxp,Mac Osx). How can i unistall Mac osx without loosing Winxp system. The Mac osx system is 10.4.6 Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted blatino Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 use a partitioning software, such as norton partition magic, delete the partition you installed osx on, then choose your windows partition, then choose resize, then resize your windows partition to use all the unallocated space by moving the slider, then click apply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arixis Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thank you for your answer. I want to put Vista in the partition of Osx. I dont want to loose the xp sustem in the other partition. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twisted blatino Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 hey maybe there is a partition eraser in the vista cd, boot from that and choose install , choose your partition and erase thatone first, maybe it wont work cuz i dont think windows can read hfs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arixis Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 perhaps i can erase the partition from within WinXP's disk management, but i am afraid i loose the boot ini. One friend of mine erase the partition and lost the WinXP boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinji257 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 It is doubtful that you will lose the boot.ini if you remove the HFS+ partition. The reason is that the boot.ini file has to be read from a FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS partition. The windows boot loader doesn't understand HFS+. If for some reason the file does disappear though you can always use the windows xp disc to repair that. @twisted blatino: yes. there is a partition manager on the vista cd. allows you to shrink, expand, create and delete partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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