willvg Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I want to make an apple filesysystem on the primary harddrive of my laptop, I know the command in command prompt to do this, but that only works on the disk as a whole. How do I go about this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 The way that I created a partition with HFS+ on it was using "diskpart" from inside Windows XP Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] © Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. F:\Documents and Settings\Justin>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565 Copyright © 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: STUDENT-18AB6F2 DISKPART> list disk <== Lists all hard disks Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 37 GB 6660 M DISKPART> select disk 0 <== Selects the hard disk you wish to use Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition <== Shows current partitions Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 2 Primary 31 GB 6660 MB DISKPART> create partition primary size=6660 id=af <== Creates a 6660 MB HFS+ hard disk You can change the size to anything you want, but it has to be 6660 in order to use deadmoo's VMWare image. I hope this works and helps you get to the point you want to be at. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
willvg Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 Right now my hard drive is showing, primary parition, and 6.6gb of unallocated space, can i use dispart to take that unallocated space and convert it to HFS+ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Yes, just use the method described above and it should make a partition with a HFS+ filesystem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
willvg Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 thanks, so once I get to the create partion primary part how do I select the partion I want to use sorry I just dont want to screw my new laptop up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
willvg Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 nevermind I think I got it, but now it says the arguments you specified for this command are not valid Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Assuming you meant set the HFS+ partition as active, do the following: F:\Documents and Settings\Justin>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565 Copyright © 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: STUDENT-18AB6F2 DISKPART> select disk 0 <== Selects your drive Disk 0 is now the selected disk. DISKPART> list partition <== Lists partitions on your drive Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Unknown 6660 MB 32 KB Partition 2 Primary 31 GB 6660 MB DISKPART> select partition 1 <== Change 1 to the number of your HFS+ partition (Shows up as Unknown in the "list partition" command) Partition 1 is now the selected partition. DISKPART> active <== Sets your HFS+ partition as active Just make sure that you have a way of getting OS X on it, because once you set it to active, it will be the drive the computer boots from. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
willvg Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 ok thanks, i figured it out, not to figure out the best method of installing osx I have the vmware image-x86 flat Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
willvg Posted August 24, 2005 Author Share Posted August 24, 2005 ok im gonna use the method used at http://www.shuddertrix.90megs.com/wiki/ind...le_And_Accurate If Im writing to partition 3 at this point, there is no way to easily screw up the computer is there? aside from the boot loader? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1109-making-apple-filesystem-on-primary-harddrive/#findComment-6752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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