I have a Macbook Air 2013 running Mavericks and I want to install windows 8.1 on it but first im getting a message saying that the iso is not 64-bit and im so confused because it partitoned my harddrive aswell so how do i get that back.
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Get back where?
If you want to get back to where you were prior to running BootCamp that will require a reformat and reinstallation of OS X.
The reformat will wipe out all daya so backup everything first.
Allan
Not true. In Mac OS's Disk Utility, you can delete the Bootcamp partition then resize the Mac partition larger to use the free space.
Gn12, if your mac keeps trying to boot to your Boot Camp partition, hold down the Option key as you boot so that you can select the Mac partition then use the Startup Disk preferences to select the Mac partition for future boots.
Disk Utility is not capable of working with the disk once BootCamp has been used to create a partition on it.
Allan
Again, not true. Disks are disks and partitions are partitions. Just because a partition is formatted as NTFS doesn't mean Disk Utility suddenly can't touch it.
BootCamp creates a hybred partition map which has both GUID and MBR schemes. Disk Utility is not capable of working with that. See http://www.coriolis-systems.com/help/iPartition-3/content/schemes.html
Allan
The article you linked to was written in the Mac OS 10.4 era.
I have used Disk Utility successfully with a Boot Camp disk (though there are limitations on what it can do; it can't resize an NTFS partition, for example). I've never seen problems between the two.
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