.aero Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I have been using Acronis Disk Suite and Partition Magic to try and create a partition off of the free space on my C: hard drive, which is my only drive. I have around 40 gigs of free space on the 120 gig hard drive, and still can't partition 20 gigs for OSX. It looks as if the C: drive is locked somehow, so I cant partition it. Whenever I try to partition it, it gives me just the unallocated drives to work with, which is only 7.58 mb in size. If someone can create a step by step guide how to partition (with any program, ill go out and buy/download it), and show me what I am doing wrong, that would be greatly appreciated. Also, if the C: hard drive is "locked", can someone help me "unlock" it? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14883-can-not-partition-c-primary-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
.aero Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 UPDATE: Looks like Acronis Disk Director did indeed lock the C: drive so can't create new partitions. Anyone know how to unlock it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14883-can-not-partition-c-primary-hard-drive/#findComment-95497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noomny Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 Hi, let's make it clear. I've never heard about locking partition or drive. By the way, are you sure that 40gb is unallocated space? If it's so, try to partition the drive by following these steps. 1- boot Acronis Disk Director. You can see your "C" partition and unallocated space. 2- choose "Create Partition". Select unallocated space. Specify the created partition size. Select the created partition type (PRIMARY). Select the partition file system. Choose the partition letter. 3- Press "Commit". I used this program several times to re-partition my HDD. Everything was charming! NOTE! If you use Acronis Disc Director trial, it won't execute anything. Only full version allows you to complete the operation. untitled.bmp Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14883-can-not-partition-c-primary-hard-drive/#findComment-95841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganymedian Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 I use knoppix and qtparted to make free space/partition/etc and it always works nicely, try using that Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14883-can-not-partition-c-primary-hard-drive/#findComment-96687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Van Macintosh Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 I have been using Acronis Disk Suite and Partition Magic to try and create a partition off of the free space on my C: hard drive, which is my only drive. I have around 40 gigs of free space on the 120 gig hard drive, and still can't partition 20 gigs for OSX. It looks as if the C: drive is locked somehow, so I cant partition it. Whenever I try to partition it, it gives me just the unallocated drives to work with, which is only 7.58 mb in size. If someone can create a step by step guide how to partition (with any program, ill go out and buy/download it), and show me what I am doing wrong, that would be greatly appreciated. Also, if the C: hard drive is "locked", can someone help me "unlock" it? Thanks! egviper, I've had a very similar problem trying to resize a Windows partition with Linux on a brand new laptop. I blew out the HP recovery partition and an unknown partition in linux and only then was I able to resize the partition. So, I do I believe that a hard drive can be set up to be "locked", especially if your Windows install is backed-up with a recovery partition. The only way I can install OSX successfully on this drive is to blow out the entire drive and dedicate it completely to OSX. Different partitioning, etc. produced a result where I could only boot windows, never could I boot OSX even though it was installed, not with Darwin, not even with Startup Disk (located in the OSX install disk and the OSX desktop). I am going to experiment further, but for now a single partition on a single drive is all I have for OSX with this laptop. I am unsure if this is like your set-up, though. It's just food for thought. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14883-can-not-partition-c-primary-hard-drive/#findComment-96714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtm3dd Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 Hi there, I have EXACTLY the same issue..... I have tried both Acronis and partition magic and they will not partition C drive. Could you tell me where you found out that acronis had locked it and have u tried unistalling acronis cos I tried partition magic AFTER acronis and it is still on the machine. Any help is greatly appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14883-can-not-partition-c-primary-hard-drive/#findComment-119001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtm3dd Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 UPDATE: I have got onto the acronis forums and it seems that its a common(ish) issue I have posted in these two threads for starters: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=129590 http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=132450 But I may just unintstall and use partition manager again and see if it makes a difference. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14883-can-not-partition-c-primary-hard-drive/#findComment-119090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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