neckarb Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Hi Guys, I have a slight problem, i have three partitions on my MacBookPro. One for Vista, one for OSX Tiger and One for OSX Leo. anyway i would like to take them all back to one without formatting so that i can go back to using bootcamp with just two partitions, any ideas? Currently 80GB- OSX Tiger 20GB- Windows Vista 20GB- OSX Leo Beta Aim 80GB Tiger 40GB Vista Without Reformatting Tiger Thanks In advance, neckarb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 There's this live linux cd in here: http://puredyne.goto10.org/ It might have a partition editor. If not, there is also a gnome partition editor live cd, but I don't know if you can startup from it in a macbook pro. It's here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ Hope this helps.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 be careful tho - GPT partitioning systems write pretend masterbootrecord partition info, and older MBR-based tools may make you think they can edit the partitions whereas in fact they are not, as they are not GPT-aware. try to find some GPT partition editing software. EDIT: Wait, i just re-read your original post. So you dont mind losing your Vista install? Bootcamp Assistant should let youre-merge all your partitions into one, then when you next run it, it should let you create a partition for Vista again, all without breaking Tiger.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 be careful tho Absolutely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neckarb Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 thanks for the hlep. i just read what munky said about using bootcamp to put my partitions back, but when you run bootcamp it comes up with something along the lines of you have too many partitions please reformat blah blah, basically bootcamp will only work when you have 1 or 2 paritions? any other ideas. i dont care about loosing all data except tiger paritions? any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Try formatting vista and leopard partitions as HFS+ in Mac OS and go back to bootcamp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neckarb Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 yeah good idea, but i've tried that previously and it dosent work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Can u use fdisk? if so, then use the fdisk to print partition table and write it down on paper. Then, use fdisk to edit the partition table. It is relatively easy. BTW, u can practice merging, deleting partition all u want with in-memory version. Just don't do "write" or "quit". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 i dont think fdisk is GPT-aware. its rather dangerous, as GPT writes 'pretend' MBR data, so MBR-only (ie non-GPT-aware) apps will think they can modify them. basically, unless the software you use is GPT-aware (and you're SURE it is), you might completely fux0r your install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Use gparted.... works teh best.... http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php and free, so no warez needed :pirate2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopazBar Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Sorry, but what is GPT? Grand Prix Tour? I'm just kidding :pirate2: Yes, I agree that it can be dangerous. i dont think fdisk is GPT-aware. its rather dangerous, as GPT writes 'pretend' MBR data, so MBR-only (ie non-GPT-aware) apps will think they can modify them. basically, unless the software you use is GPT-aware (and you're SURE it is), you might completely fux0r your install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neckarb Posted November 24, 2006 Author Share Posted November 24, 2006 i tried gparted but it would never load, when i ran the live cd version? does it work on a mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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