Hi Shannon, If you go into the Utilities folder in your applications folder, and go into Disk Utility app, you can format your disk from there. You'll probably want to do a clean installation of Mavericks, and format your disk from the options before you install Mavericks, but the process is the same. Once you get to Disk Utility, you'll select your HD from the disks table, and choose the "erase" tab. You can then erase the disk, and its partitions, which will get rid of the XP one and leave the drive free for Mavericks. Rachel On Apr 28, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Shannon Dyer <solsticesin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all. > > I have a macbook that I purchased in 2010, just before lion was released. I'm > thinking of updating to Mavericks from Mountain Lion, but have a question > before doing so. > > When I first got the machine, I created a small windows partition using > bootcamp. Windows XP is the operating system that runs there. I would like to > update, but I want to make sure that the update will take away the partition. > Since windows XP is no longer supported, I want the machine to run the mac os > only. Is this possible? If so, could someone tell me how to make it happen? > > I would appreciate any help you can offer. > > Shannon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
