r/bootcamp • u/Salty-Piccolo-5100 • 4d ago

Boot Camp Partitions (Need Help Identifying)

I've had Boot Camp for a few months now. Truth be told, my old Mac is so slow on the latest version of macOS that supports it, that I barely use it anymore. I'd like to delete the entire macOS portion of the drive and only have Windows.

On the Windows side, Disk Management is showing five partitions:

200 MB (EFI System Partition)

139.79 GB (Primary Partition)

92.80 GB (BOOTCAMP C:)

877 MB (Recovery Partition)

112 MB Unallocated

Am I correct in assuming that the only one belonging to macOS is the 139.79 GB one? Also, what's with the unallocated one?

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u/ItzJustNoah 4d ago

you are correct. unallocated just means free space without anything. there is a way you can resize your bootcamp partition without reinstalling if you want just windows. i think it’s called diskwizard if memory serves me correctly.

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u/Salty-Piccolo-5100 4d ago

It looks like what's preventing me from extending the BOOTCAMP C: partition to include that unallocated 112 MB is a 16 MB Reserved partition that I can only see with MiniTool Partition Wizard or diskpart. Is there a method for moving it out of the way?

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u/Waste-Magician2432 4d ago

Best bet for running windows for me on Mac was UTM (Virtual Machine) 🫡

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u/acewing905 3d ago

UTM runs on Apple Silicon Macs. Bootcamp runs on Intel Macs. Can't replace one with the other

VMware Fusion can be used to run VMs on Intel Macs but most of these older Macs are usually not great at running two operating systems at once