I have an iMac I bought at a storage unit auction. I'm not really familiar with mac OS but I can use it. I did some research and found I could use bootcamp and install Windows on it. I successfully installed Windows 7 on it and it boots to Windows on startup and I am happy. I want to know if I still need the partition that mac OS is installed on? I mean does the computer rely on any of that mac installation data or will it run on the Windows partition alone allowing me to recover that storage space?

Thanks in advance for any help!

1/17/2014 3:36:35 AM

I'm sure that just as soon as I post this reply someone's gonna prove me wrong and throw a link up that gives a plain answer, and I welcome that..., but I'm surprised that I can't find shit online to answer this. I mean I feel like I'm usually pretty good at finding pretty much anything but I'm getting nothing on this. I don't know, maybe I had a stroke or something and what I'm typing in searches and seems like legitimate correct search material to me is really just a bunch of random characters that only make sense to me... *sigh... It's not really an urgent issue and I have other drive space, but it would be unfortunate and annoying if it has to stay as is, and now that I have installed the OS I want and it's working I just want to get the rest done so I can I guess just be done with it.

1/17/2014 5:52:35 AM

If the Mac uses EFI, you'll still need OS X on it: http://superuser.com/questions/73965/remove-mac-os-x-and-install-windows

[Edited on January 17, 2014 at 7:36 AM. Reason : I searched for this: https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=remove%20osx%20after%20bootcamp

1/17/2014 7:36:03 AM

For that matter, if there are every any firmware updates for the hardware, they are not released for windows and must be installed through OS X.

1/17/2014 5:28:01 PM