undoing a partition on MAC HD?

Try this:

1) Make a back up of your important files (Just to be on the safe side)
2) Run Disk Utility (You may have to boot to your OS X DVD and run Disk Utility there, I can't quite recall)
3) Click on your HD in the list on the side.
4) Click the "Partition" tab.
5) Select the Windows partition in the Volume Scheme Diagram. (MAKE SURE you have selected the Windows partition and not your Mac partition.)
6) Click the minus button below the Volume Scheme Diagram.
7) If it doesn't resize automatically, click the bottom of your Mac partition in the Volume Scheme Diagram and drag it down so it fills up the Volume Scheme Diagram and shows you ONLY "Macintosh HD" (Or whatever you have it named as).

Let me know how/if that works out for you. Again, you should be able to do this without booting into your OS X DVD, but it's been awhile since I've done it, so I could be wrong.

If the partition was created with Bootcamp assistant, it is a simple task to remove it with Bootcamp assistant.If it was partitioned with Disc Utility, that changes things significantly.

Before changing your hard disc to a single partition, make sure you have a bootable clone of your hard drive, SuperDuper will do the job, as going back to a single partition will erase all data on hour hard drive.

Removing the partition with Boot Camp (or Disk Utility) will not erase all data on the drive. It just deletes the partition. Your Mac OS X partition remains untouched.

Although backing up JUST in case, is always a swell idea.

I am wondering if by the grace of all that is good and holy if there is someone that can help me.

I own a G5 and pc w/ vista. My roommate also owns a G5 and he may have royally screwed me. My 1 Terabyte external harddrive was originally formatted for PC. In an attempt to transfer files to my external drive, he managed to format the entire drive (negating 600gigs of very important files: reports, design projects, irreplaceable video footage etc...). He thought he was only creating a 10gig partition to dump the MAC files onto it. He used the Disk Utility feature on his computer, and the rest...well you get the idea.

Is there ANY WAY AT ALL that those files can be recovered? I am desperate. Thanks so much.

Open up the Boot Camp Assistant again and it'll help you remove the partition. It won't affect your Mac OS X partition at all.

Hello g:

I am not familiar with Bootcamp (I never run Windows stuff on my Mac), but you should be able to delete the partition using disk utility.

Barry

You should make a new post out of your question. Nobody will see it here.