azurekite15 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Hello everyone Just before I installed OSX on my laptop i used XP to make a 9GB partition for it Then once i installed OSX i deleted the XP partition and wanted to expand my mac one to the full 20GB that my hardrive has... I cant... Does anyone know how to? Thank you for your time... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kytzu Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 If your disk is formatted as MBR you can't resize, insetad you can boot from Leopard DVD, start disk utility and make a image of your Mac partition (you need a second HFS partition on same or another disk). Then delete/recreate the partition as needed and restore the OS from image. I didn't try the trick by myself but it should work like that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azurekite15 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 So how would I recreate the partition? I dont mind if i loose everything. I only installed yesterday... So is there not an application in MAC that can just wipe everything out and give me a nice big 20GB partition? P.S sorry i just saw your signature and the five line rule... Mines more than five lines... im gonna change it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 So you have 2 partitions one has nothing on it and the other has Leopard... Go to Disk Utility and click on the drive, then go to partition and click on the old XP partition, click on the "-" to remove it. Read, it will confirm that it will erase/remove the XP partition BUT not the MacOS partition! create a new partition on the empty space, it will format itself Now, go to terminal You can do this in Terminal.... type: sudo -s (enter your password) type: diskutil list You should see your disk with 2 partitions.. write down which is which...(this is only an example) /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *465.8 Gi disk0 1: Windows 265.8 Gi disk0s1 2: MacOSX 200.0 Gi disk0s2 say you have disk0s1 and disk0s2 disk0s1 contains your old XP partition or clear disk0s2 contains your MacOS partition now type: sudo diskutil mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk0s2 disk0s1 (include all the "") (you can even copy and paste my typing) this will merge disk0s1 with disk0s2, which is the partition you have MacOS on! It is very important that the one that you want to keep is first!! I've done this about 50 times and it works everytime! SticMAC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azurekite15 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 I have two partitions One is disk0 and the other is disk0s1 I did what you said to do and it says: Merging partitions encountered error Unknown error: -5344 (-5344) on disk disk0s1 Main. The erase will not occur. What should i do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 Go back into Disk Utility and make a partition of the empty space that you removed previously! then follow the same steps in terminal again... You MUST have a disk0s1 and disk0s2 BEFORE you can merge, you can't merge what you dont have! disk0 is just the drive name s1 and s2 are the partitions... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azurekite15 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Ummm.. right when i go into Disk Utility and click on my 18GB hard-drive then go into partition it says: This disk contains the start-up volume and can't be partitioned. Im really sorry about this im a newbie Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 that means your Darwin bootloader is on THAT partition! Sorry Mate, it would seem you'll have to start from fresh, the other way is just too complicated! SticMAC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azurekite15 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Ahhhh great..... Oh well So starting from afresh would that mean wiping my hard-drive and using some kind of boot-cd? I do have damn small linux if that helps... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 No, you can do it from the Mac DVD when you start and have chosen your lanuage, the before you start your install there is a disk utility the same as in MacOS under tools use it the same as I described before but this time you create one partition and continue sticMAC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azurekite15 Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Thanks sticMAC the problem is sorted now and i owe it all to you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152279-mac-partition/#findComment-1075958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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