To remove Windows using Boot Camp Assistant, login to the Mac OS and open Boot Camp Assistant. Delete Using Boot Camp Assistantīoot Camp Assistant doesn’t typically present any issues, so using it to remove the Windows OS from your Mac is easy and ideal. Now the storage space from both will be available in one partition. Your partitions should then be merged under the partition you first clicked on. To merge your partitions, click and drag the corner of the partition you want to keep over the partition you just deleted. If the partition remains open, it will continue to mark storage as unusable because it’s sectioned off for different use. Once you’ve deleted all of the information on your partition, you may have to merge your Windows partition with your Mac OS partition, so you will have all of the space available to you once again. Be sure before you delete your partition that all of your information and data from your Windows OS has been saved elsewhere. In doing this, you will lose all of the data saved on the Windows OS. Select the Windows OS partition and click “Erase.” If you installed Windows using the Boot Camp Assistant, your partition will likely be named BOOTCAMP. In the Disk Utility window, you will see all of your partitions on the left. To find Disk Utility, you can look on “Finder” under applications, or you can open Launchpad and go to the section “Other.” Once you find Disk Utility, open it. Open Disk Utility and Delete the Windows Partition You will then be brought back into the Mac OS. This will bring up a screen where you can choose your OS. As it is rebooting, press and hold the “Option” key. To access the Mac OS, reboot your computer.
If you have already downloaded Windows onto your Mac, the default OS will be Windows, so your Mac won’t automatically open the Mac OS. Read the following for more detailed instructions on uninstalling Windows and merging your partition, into one Mac OS partition. It will be called BOOTCAMP if downloaded using Boot Camp Assistant. Here you can see and delete the Windows OS, which will be in a partition on your drive. To uninstall Windows from Mac, without Boot Camp Assistant, log in to the Mac OS by pressing alt as your computer boots up.
How to Uninstall Windows on Mac Without Bootcamp This would basically get the job done if it works on the rMBP as well, but I'd prefer something friendlier.If you are running out of space on a Mac that also has a Windows OS partition and you no longer have use for Windows, you may be wondering how to delete it.īoot Camp Assistant is usually the easiest option, but you can still uninstall the Windows OS without it. When I did this sort of experimenting on my Macbook Air there seemed to be a method which involved setting the desired setting in smcFanControl in OS X and then sometimes rebooting into windows would have the setting stick. My understanding is that under OS X I can use the smcFanControl app to manually specify the fan RPMs, but I have not been able to find a similar way to control or fix the fan speed once I am booted into Windows.
So long as the 105 degree Tj Max point is not passed the computer keeps up with whatever game you're playing just fine. So I hope this makes it clear that Apple's fan speed scaling is a bit on the conservative side when the temperatures are high.įrom what I can tell, once you get the machine nice and toasty and the load "stabilizes" it will generally be in a state of equilibrium where the CPU core temperatures hover in the high 80's and 90 degrees C, making occasional excursions above 100 degrees C. I know that the fans are capable of running higher than the highest they have been recorded to run which is in the neighborhood of 4900 RPM, they should be capable of going to 6000 RPM, which, even though it would be noisy would be keeping the CPU cooler, which is a good thing in my book. This is somewhat inconvenient of course, as it means the CPU has reached a temperature that it should never reach, and also requires a reboot.
Gaming on the rMBP under Windows 7 is a very good experience but I have noticed that unless I elevate the chassis there is a tendency for the automatically regulated fan speed to fail to engage a rising computational load fast enough to keep the CPU under thermal shutdown temperature (Tj max) and freeze the machine.