zlayaa Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Hello! My HDD crashed a month ago and I was forced to buy a new one, I had Hackintosh installed and it worked fine. When I got my new drive I needed a working computer quickly so I decided to install Windows 7, I left about 90 gb of free space to install Snow Leopard on. Now when I tried to install it Disk Utility doesn't allow me to create a partition in the free space, when I mark the free space the +/- buttons are grey:ed out, I can't do anything to it. However, it does allow me to partition the drive if I mark for instance 3 partitions in the drop down list above, but this option will erase the current partitions. It looks like this: After scanning around the menus for a while I found this, when I mark a partition in the list to the left I get an option to erase the partition and format it to another file system, looks like this: What if I create a FAT32 partition with Gparted in the free space, and then go into disk utility, mark the partition and select erase and HFS+ journaled as output, would that work? But I'm worrying about that the erase tool might erase whole my hard drive which I don't want. What do you think? Thanks, zlayaa Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255193-install-hackintosh-into-free-space-on-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 I decided to install Windows 7, I left about 90 gb of free space to install Snow Leopard on. Now when I tried to install it Disk Utility doesn't allow me to create a partition in the free space Your free space is part of an NTFS partition on an MBR formatted drive, right? You cannot make changes to NTFS partitions in Disk Utility (other than wipe them out) and you cannot resize partitons (of any type) on MBR partitioned drives. Use the disk management console in Windows to create a partition on that space. Then use Disk Utility to format it. In Windows, click the start button and type 'create and format hard disk partitions', then click on the most obvious search result. You cannot install retail Snow Leopard to an MBR partitioned drive, you will have to use a distro - or, you can use Disk Utility to 'restore' the retail install DVD to a hard drive partition and make the necessary changes to the installer packages. There are guides detailing the procedure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255193-install-hackintosh-into-free-space-on-hdd/#findComment-1672296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlayaa Posted April 19, 2011 Author Share Posted April 19, 2011 You cannot make changes to NTFS partitions in Disk Utility (other than wipe them out).Your free space is part of an NTFS partition, right? Use the disk management console in Windows to create a partition on that space. Then use Disk Utility to format it. Click the start button and type 'create and format hard disk partitions', then click on the most obvious search result. The free space isn't part of any partition, it's just a blank area not used by anything. Sounds like the method I thought of, I'll try it! EDIT: Hackintosh installed! But I had to reformat and repartition the whole computer because the HDD was set to MBR and the installer didn't allow me to install it to it, so I had to repartition it to GUID.. Thanks for the help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/255193-install-hackintosh-into-free-space-on-hdd/#findComment-1672303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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