Zyke Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Hi, I have 2 partitions on 1hdd, the first one is for OSX, the second one was to install Windows, but since I didn't get that to work I wanted to get the two partitions to merge. But is it just to go to "disk utility" and chose "partitions" on the hdd and chose "1 partition" and it's done, or will it try to erase information on the hdd? (I only have information on one of the two partitions) thanks in advance Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enrico1985 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 OS X's Disk Utility can't grow or shrink partitions on the fly: it will always write a new partition table and that's it, which implies your existing partitions won't be readable thereafter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagertolearn Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 try making the partition active. i've tried making vista partition active and using vistas' bootloading to dual boot, or u can use Dawin bootloader to dual boot(make Os x partition active for Darwin). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zyke Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 OS X's Disk Utility can't grow or shrink partitions on the fly: it will always write a new partition table and that's it, which implies your existing partitions won't be readable thereafter! that blows : ( maybe I can run a linux cd and use fdisk there!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY Mike Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Download the GParted LiveCD and use that. With the graphical mode, resizing stuff is quite easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zyke Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 Download the GParted LiveCD and use that. With the graphical mode, resizing stuff is quite easy! thanks, I'll try that, I just have to solve this problem first http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1113214 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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