dainbramage Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Well, I have a beautiful 10.4.10 installation running on my machine right now - Radeon X800 with CI+QE, wireless Internet running - in other words, a lot of painfully created mods. But because iMovie '08 won't recognize any movie files on anything other than the primary partition, I need to extend my primary Mac partition. This isn't a problem in terms of space - I was just using the rest of the drive for a FAT swap partition, so, whatever. The problem is, I can't find ANY tool which will extend the HFS+ partition into the empty space, because the partition table is MBR and not GUID. Apple's diskutil chokes on the partition table. Acronis on Windows won't extend HFS+ partitions. gparted won't extend HFS+ partitions. COuld I use diskpart? I'm afraid to try right now. I imagine I could nuke the Mac partition, wipe the drive, repartition and reinstall, but it took me literally weeks to get it working right. If I do that, I'd prefer to be able to create a bootable image of my existing install on yet another drive I have, wipe the partitions and then restore from the image. But I can't figure out what tool to use for that. CCC doesn't work on 10.4.10, from what I hear. Disk Utility doesn't create bootable images. And the stuff I see on the Web about rsyncx, psync and such just makes my head spin - I can't figure out which of those would work at ALL. Can someone help me as to how to extend my partition or image my drive so I don't lose my painstaking mods? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62756-extending-mac-partition-or-cloning-mac-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Check out Clonetool Hatchery. It handles Apple GUID, MBR, real mac, Hack, all no problems. You can backup your current system to a second HD, (even USB/Firewire), and it will make it bootable. Reconfigure your main HD's partition and then do the reverse and copy back your system. (It only copies files, not partitions, so different sizes are no problem) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62756-extending-mac-partition-or-cloning-mac-drive/#findComment-444415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 I haven't tried it myself, but I've read that iPartition is supposed to allow you to change sizes of your partitions with affecting your data etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62756-extending-mac-partition-or-cloning-mac-drive/#findComment-444491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon1971 Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 I haven't tried it myself, but I've read that iPartition is supposed to allow you to change sizes of your partitions with affecting your data etc. I'm not sure, but I heard that iPartition didn't work (or didn't work well) with MBR. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/62756-extending-mac-partition-or-cloning-mac-drive/#findComment-444529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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