mlavio829 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Hi, Does anyone know how to resize the Leopard OSX86 Flatimage? I have an 80gb hardrive and can only utilize 15gb of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sladeslade Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 had the same problem, it's very difficult, you have to turn off journaling and use ubuntu to merge partitions... but may be you'll just buy leopard, instead of stealing it that's what i did. still feel a little weird, installing the software updates tho... i have a pentium 4 ht and in the back of my head, i always wonder if that information is sent to apple during the update... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
996gt2 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 To re-size your HDD you need a program like Norton (formerly PowerQuest) PartitionMagic or Acronis Disk Director, assuming you want to do this in Windows. Just install, reboot, start the program, and drag the partition you want to resize. The new space will become unallocated space, which can then be formatter for installing an OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 996ct2: NO. this does not work with HFS+ partitions. Has anyone tried installing the flat image to a GUID partition & boot it with pc-efi? If the reports are correct, you should then be able to non-destructively resize the partition with disk util. Just a thought.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 The newest flavor of iPartition is supposed to handle this. The older versions weren't very successful. I've always wondered why there aren't more solutions for this very desirable feature on Macs. I'm relatively new to Macs but it seems to me that Apple has been around long enough for some entrepreneur to jump on this. Intel Macs have only been out for a short time and Paragon has already come up with a solution for reading and writing to NTFS drives. Non-destructive partitioning software seems like a natural. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 The newest flavor of iPartition is supposed to handle this. The older versions weren't very successful. I've always wondered why there aren't more solutions for this very desirable feature on Macs. I'm relatively new to Macs but it seems to me that Apple has been around long enough for some entrepreneur to jump on this. Intel Macs have only been out for a short time and Paragon has already come up with a solution for reading and writing to NTFS drives. Non-destructive partitioning software seems like a natural. The crux has been the combination of HFS+ filesystem and MBR partitioning.. GUID partitions have been resizable on Macs for some time, MBR partitions have been resizable on pc's for ages, but not with HFS+ FS on them. Some solutions have surfaced that can resize such partitions, but HFS+ on MBR is still a bit esoteric for most mainstream applications (hackintoshes are the only machines to boot from such a config). In short, resising exists for macs, and for pc's, but the hackintosh, being a hybrid, falls between the 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlavio829 Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 had the same problem, it's very difficult, you have to turn off journaling and use ubuntu to merge partitions... but may be you'll just buy leopard, instead of stealing it that's what i did. still feel a little weird, installing the software updates tho... i have a pentium 4 ht and in the back of my head, i always wonder if that information is sent to apple during the update... I did buy Leopard, but couldn't get the Brazil method to work properly with it. (otherwise i would have used that) So i resorted to the flat-image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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