Kinseek Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Having finally gotten the Leopard install CD booting; I`m a little worried about ruining the data on my HD. I have the following partitions set up like this: NTFS 20 GB (Win XP) NTFS 40 GB (Win Vista) FAT32 20 GB (intended for Mac OS) ##Extended Partition## FAT32 10 GB (Linux) NTFS 375 GB (games, movies, etc...) With the exception of that one FAT32 partition, the rest are filled with stuff I`d rather not destroy. I figure that MacOS has to be on a HFS+ partition right? I`ve been thinking about using the disk utility on the install DVD to convert/destroy&create a HFS+ out of that FAT32 partition, but will that mess up all the other partitions, like ruining the MBR and stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 No, unless you tell Disk Utility to partition your drive, you need to erase the parttion you want for Mac OS and choose HFS+ Journaled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinseek Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Okey, I tried doing just that now, but with some issues. When Disk utility did its short little magic, the new supposed new HFS+ partition didnt have a matching volume name that I had given it (I gave it the name "Mac OS"), but instead showed up as drive06 (or something, cant recall the specific name). I could not select it for install when quiting disk utility, rebooting the install dvd and not a single partition could be seen, not even the HD itself in disk utility. In windows vista`s computer management the new format just shows up as "RAW". What`s the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Maybe because is not a Primary Partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinseek Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 It is a primary partition. Here is how it shows up when I tried running first aid: EDIT: Did some searching and did this in windows: diskpart list disk - shows you your disks select disk 0 - or whichever drive you want to use list partition - shows you the partitions, verify that the empty space is there select partition 2 - or whichever you want to delete delete partition - now it's unallocated space create partition primary id=af - makes a new parititon in the unallocated space with type AF (you can add "size=XXXX" for XXXX megabytes") Which allowed me to erase said partition in disk utility and then make it to HFS+. Install then went OK. Let`s see if I cannot make it boot as well now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Ok, in that picture the partition is still formatted in FAT32, choose erase and change to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinseek Posted November 20, 2007 Author Share Posted November 20, 2007 Ok, in that picture the partition is still formatted in FAT32, choose erase and change to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Yes I know. I did exactly as you described, yet it would still show up as FAT32 after it supposedly should have succeded. But then I did what I said in my previous post and it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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