Flawless Oddity Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Is there a way that I can add a new partition without erasing everything? I tried doing it in Disk Utility, but it is going to wipe everything on both partition when I click apply. It seems like it would be an easy task, to resize the current one, and make a second partition. Ive done a search and didn't find anything for what I was looking for mostly dual boot {censored} that would require me to format the drive. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108541-add-new-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 First question are you on GUID or MBR? SticMAN Is there a way that I can add a new partition without erasing everything? I tried doing it in Disk Utility, but it is going to wipe everything on both partition when I click apply. It seems like it would be an easy task, to resize the current one, and make a second partition. Ive done a search and didn't find anything for what I was looking for mostly dual boot {censored} that would require me to format the drive. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108541-add-new-partition/#findComment-769630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flawless Oddity Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 MBR, with EFI v6* I believe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108541-add-new-partition/#findComment-769634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 With MBR there is no resize! If you had two MBR partitions and you wanted to combine them into one, that can be done by using the Resizevolume command http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/nondest...esizing_volumes MBR, with EFI v6* I believe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108541-add-new-partition/#findComment-769828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flawless Oddity Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 Well, I do have two MBR partitions, but that is what I was wanting to do. I have a 80Gb hard drive, 70Gb for Leopard, and 10Gb for XP. I am running out of space on XP so I was thinking I could make a 3rd partition in Leopard some how and format it FAT. Then in XP convert the 3rd FAT partition to NTFS and then combine it to the original XP partition. You would think this would be an easy thing to do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108541-add-new-partition/#findComment-770208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Get Gparted Live CD. It will let you "SHRINK" your Leopard Partition (provided you have space in that). Once you have done that, it may let you "GROW" the NTFS Partition (I am not sure). If GParted cannot do it, Partition Magic should have no troubles to increase the NTFS Partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108541-add-new-partition/#findComment-770273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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