Backing up partition

OK, Boot Camp is asking me to reformat the entire drive as a Mac partitioned drive. It says I need to create a backup image. How do I create a backup image of the drive, in order to restore it after I reformat?

OK. I tried creating a Disk Image using Disk Utility of the Mac partition. But, when I do I get an error
"Unable to create "Macintosh HD". (Resource busy)
Please help me fix this problem, so I may get my Vista Partition back up and running. Right now, I have NO Boot Camp partition, as it has been deleted. And, I need it back up ASAP. Even if I've lost my Vista data -- I need Vista, with or without the old stuff.

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OK so you have your key written down on a piece of paper.....just in case you need it. Please post if it does require you to enter the key. According to the instructions, if you haven't activated Windows 10 yet, it will require the key the first time since you're aren't going through Windows update. But I'm not sure if that's the case since I haven't tried it. Why don't you just go through windows update? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Edit: You don't need your backup partition to update through windows update. If you update through windows update, you won't need to enter your key. Why is it you think you need your backup partition in order to go to windows update and upgrade to windows 10? If you don't know how to find windows update on your computer, you can search for it on your computer.

Time Machine backing up partitioned external HD

Hello ALL...
I want to setup Time Machine but I have a question. I hope I can explain it.
I have a firewire 800 Lacie 250GB external Hard drive that I want to divide into two partitions. One partition named 'Time Machine' is for Time Machine to use for backing up and the other partition named 'My Files' has file of all sorts on it. What I would like to know is...Can Time Machine backup all the files on the partition named 'My Files' to the other partition where I have named it Time Machine.
I Also like to have Time Machine backup my internal HD to the partitioned named Time Machine too.
Can Time Machine do all of this. I hope I am making sense!
Thanks you in Advance.
D

One word of caution, TM does not clone(Bootable Copy) your HD, it backs up everything on your HD that you set it for. You will need another application to accomplish this. One last word of caution, different makes of external drives work differently with the new OS 10.5.2. This only applies if you are shutting down your external drive after you have updated to either partition. The external drive icons cannot be removed by dragging them to the trash. You get a window that says that the volume is in use. If this happens the only way to remove the external drive icons from your desk top is to shut down and unplug everything. Then hold the Mac power button in for about 20-30 seconds and release. Then plug in only the computer, mouse and keyboard. Start your computer and then plug in your external drive. When the external drive icons appear on your desktop apple click them and drag then to the trash. Icons should then disappear. This info received from an Apple Tech Rep.and worked for me. However if you ever change these 2 partitions on your external drive you will have to repeat this process every time. No name given for this problem but the fix works. Apple should really address this issue. Good luck

Merge free space back into partition

I was partitioning my external hard drive for time machine and I ended up with extra free space. How do I merge that back into one of the partitions?
See that extra block of 128 GB? How can I add that into the External Storage?

Manipulating the partition table always risks the data on the drive, but you can try the following to expand the partition size:
1. open the Terminal and enter "diskutil list" to get a list of the drive devices and volumes on them, along with their identifiers.
2. Run the following command using the identifier for the External Storage partition (replace "IDENTIFIER" with the identifier string, which will be something like "disk3s2"):
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Satellite U400 - How to get back formatted partition with HDD Recovery

Hello,
I have bought a new Satellite U400 notebook with Vista Home preinstaled on it.
I went throught initial configuration and after it has been done I realised that HDD partitions do not suits my needs.
So I resised the "Vista" partition (acctually I have shrinked it) and made the "Data" partition bigger.
I did not do anything with hidden partition.
Unfortunately when I did this procedure I formated the "Data" partition.
Now when I want to make backup DVD with TOSHIBA Recovery Disc Creator I got the error message saying that it is not possible because I have formated the "Data" partition.
Are there any suggestion how to solve this error?
The system goes fine, the only thing is that I am not able to backup and restore OS.
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Another possibility besides getting yourself a new copy of recovery DVD is, that you could use 3rd party programs to make an image or backup of your actual system.
I think Norton Ghost or Acronis TrueImage are good programs, but I only used last named one, so can't tell if Norton tool is equal to Acronis.
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I have several partitions on my MBP of which I would like to backup only 2. I know I can control this in the TM setup. However my question is would TM than make one or two sparse images. And if only one how could I get it to make two images.
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Yes you can. But i would suggest to do each one at a time. (Is just for performance, if you try to write from two computers on the same drive at the same time access time will be reduced to less than one half).
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I accidentally deleted Lion's backup partition. Is there any way to reinstall it without formatting the whole hard drive and reinstalling Lion?
Thanks.

You can get three things.
1: a USB thumb drive 1GB+ formatted with one partition GUID OS X Extended (Journaled) in Disk Utility.
2: a copy of this software
https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433
3: Another Lion Mac to do #2 to #1, basically copying their Lion Recovery Partition.
Take the USB to the Mac with no Lion anything and hold option to boot off of the USB, you will likely need a Internet connection either right away or afterwards when you reinstalled the Lion Recovery Partition and can command r boot into it.
You will need your AppleID to download Lion.
You likely will need to format the internal drive 1 partition, GUID, OS X Extended Journaled as well if it isn't already.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

After partitioning external drive network Time Machine instance can't back up

This is a re-post with additional background information requested by several responders:
I recently added a G-Speed Q RAID array to my MAC PRO to use exclusively for back-up with Time Machine. I purchased this RAID array from the Apple store, so assume that means it's acceptable to use for this purpose. Maybe that's a bad assumption on my part. In any event, it worked great with Time Machine on my MAC PRO. The G-speed array is connected to my Mac Pro via Firewire 800 port for now. I am awaiting delivery of an eSATA expansion card for the Mac Pro which I intend to switch to when it arrives. In any event, it is not configured or capable of acting as an NAS device. It is a shared external drive on the MAC PRO.
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Current status is as follows, local time machine back-up works fine on its partition. Remote machine finds and connects to its assigned partition once I provide correct user name and password, but fails while Time Machine is "searching for backup device" with the AFP error message. The remote (sending) machine is connecting as a dedicated user and not as "Guest".
I can write test files directly to the remote back up partition from either mac and I can read, modify and save files directly to this partition from either mac.
Please let me know if any additional information related to configuration is needed. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

In my "dispute" with Pondini in the other thread, I came across some information that will certainly explain things, but not in a good way.
Apparently you cannot use an external drive as a Time Machine repository. People who use Snow Leopard and Lion Server to provide Time Machine services have already discovered this.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3327294
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2472139
It may work better when your eSATA card comes in. My theory is that a Thunderbolt RAID would show up as an internal drive and would be useable as a Time Machine repository. There is a chance that an eSATA card would do that too. You'll find out. Apparently, one of the things you get with Lion Server is a warning pop-up if you try to use an external drive with Time Machine.
While I'm a big fan of Time Machine, I still consider it Apple Black Magic. You can use it, but don't get too clever. I don't like to take chances with backups. Simple is usually better. Time Machine isn't simple, but it is so convenient that I like to ignore the incredible complexity of it.
If the other machine were a notebook with local snapshots I might say you could manually plug it in to do backups. With two iMacs, I would recommend just getting another external drive.
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Hello,
I bought DV6-6120us with 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium few months a go. I made USB Recovery disk with the help of HP USB recovery flash utility. some days later my hard drive stoped working due to soe bad segments.
I claimed for warrenty. they changed the Hard drive with some worng recovery partition. Now when i try to restore my laptop to fectory settings from USB but that dont work. Would you suggest me any solution for the problem. And is there any solution to convert my USB recovery back into Partition Recovery.
Please Help me out.

Thanks for the reply.
Obviously I am not getting this across correctly.
The recovery from the USB stick did NOT put back the hidden recovery partition. Checked in Computer manage, disk management,
in the drive is
1) simple basic recovery partition (no drive letter) size 1.46gig and free is 1.46gig.
2) simple basic NTFS partition C drive. size 915gig free 841gig
3) nothing! (in the original disk this was the 3rd partition containing simple basic no drive letter, it was the recovery partition. Now after the recovery process to return the PC back to manufacturer original it has created the 1 and 2 but NOT the 3 partition.
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" the usage of recovery medium (disk or USb stick) would set the HDD back to factory settings". That did not happen. Would appears to be should have but DID NOT.
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Format External Drive Partitioned OSX extended and FAT32

I am new to the concept of partitioning a drive and have found information mentioning that disk utility has a MS-DOS option for partitioning a drive. I do not have this as a drop down choice in my Disk Utility options. I have read that this is format equivalent to FAT32. I would like to partition this drive half OSX extended and half FAT32. How do I get the drop down choice and is this possible.
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Thank you Limnos for all your help. Last night I tried again and it worked! I’ not totally sure on what I did right but:
• Both volumes on the new ext. driver were HFS (from my last attempt the other day) so I looked into a simple erase of one partition/volume into a different format, but DU did not offer a way of erasing it into MS-DOS(FAT32). But I think I did a simple HFS erase anyway of the volume I wanted to format to FAT32. There was nothing “in” that volume because this was a new external drive but I figured it could not hurt anything.
• So then, I think I went back to Partition, locked the partition/volume that I wanted to keep in HFS+ for my Mac files, and (re)partitioned the other just erased volume to MS-DOS. I think I did it under the MBR option.
• It worked! Not sure why but my Mac recognized both volumes one as HFS, the other as FAT32. Maybe someone will find this useful some day!!
• Then, I hooked up the drive to my work Dell, the Dell found only the FAT32 drive (as expected), and I executed a short simple easy command I found on ehow.com (search for ‘convert FAT32 to NTFS’) to make that volume NTFS.
Thanks again Limnos and everyone else!

How to set desired partition size on Satellite C850-12D with W7 Pro?

Hi all,
I recently got a new laptop, Satellite Pro C850-12D with Seven Pro: the disk (500 Gb) is initially partitionned like this:
- a small hidden, 1.46 Gb
- the C: one, 449.47 Gb (visible by the user)
- a hidden one, 14.83 Gb
I would reduce the C: partition to 100 Gb in order to create a new one for DATA.
So, I begin the process using the Seven tools for disk managing but the disposable size after reduction seems limited to a max of 226.685 Gb: C remains higher or equal to 233 570 Gb.
I tried defragmentation of C but its minimal size remains 233 570 Gb
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Hi
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Back to partition issue:
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I accidentally deleted my windows 8 partition.

Hi.
As the title states, i accidentally deleted and reformatted the partition that windows 8 was installed on, on my EliteBook 8570p, and now the recovery tool states that it is unable to restore because of a said missing partition. I was wondering if there was any way i could restore or format back the partition in question.
Many Thanks.

I guess i should state that this happened during a botched install of windows 7. Right now, i just want to see if i can restore windows 8 in it's original setting to this computer.

How can I partition an already in use external?

I have a 250gb external that I am using with Time Machine. Its still got plenty of space left, >80gb, and I'd like to see if I can partition it without losing what I already have. I know I can save files on the same disk without having to partition it but I would like to partition it anyways. I got bout 5gb of free space left on my internal HD and I wanna put my videos on the external. As long as I don't need any paid third party software I will do it. So, can disk utility do this? Or is there a way to do this?

You can probably do this. See item #6 in the Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum.
Note that while you can have TM back this partition up along with your internal HD, it will send you a warning, reminding you that it really isn't a good idea. To have reasonably-secure data, you need (at least) two separate copies of everything important in two separate places. Don't trust both your originals and backups to the same physical hard drive -- when it fails (and it will, sooner or later), you risk losing both copies.
If your videos are fairly static, consider archiving them to DVDs.
And/or, get a separate external HD for them, and let TM back up both your internal HD and the new external.

Need help to move my unallocated space to my system partition

When trying to check the healthy state of my D partition in Disk Management, I find there is some unallocated space behind this partition. Moreover, comparing to create a new partition with the unallocated space, I think it is better to
move it to my system partition. Therefore, do you know how to get that started? What are your steps for me to expand my system partition?

OK! Based on your description, the unallocated space is not adjacent to your system partition, right? If so, you probably cannot directly add it to your system partition in Disk Management. If you insist, you also will find a grayed-out
“Extend” option there.
Therefore, this is not proper for your situation. Just back up all partition data well and choose a third-party partition resizing tool to have a try. Search over the internet. You can find many efficient ones, like IM-Magic Partition
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Will Time Machine back up a boot camp drive partition with Windows XP SP3 installed as the OS?
Maui Guy

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