Boot partition on 2nd or 3rd Drive?

How does one tell the installer to partition the 2nd HDD or 3rd HDD.
It defaults to the root drive \dev\cd0 but I want it on a different HDD.
Is it possible to boot solaris from the 2nd or 3rd drive. Is it possible to have fdisk change drives??

Hi,
Please select mode as Interactive for installation.In this mode system will prompt many questions which need to be answered. Under disk configuration window you will observe all the drive on left window. You can select appropriate disk and click On button indicating >> to select boot disk which will be shown on right window after selection. There on you need to partition the disk and continue.
However, after installation you need to use DCA floppy to select appropriate disk to boot the system.
I hope this tips help to solve your problems.
Regards,
SD

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I just added a 2nd and 3rd ata drive to my 450 MHZ tower. The motherboard had an open plug that said ata.
I plugged in the cord (strip) that came with the drive into the board and into the additional hard drives.
(fyi) I took both hard drives and strip from a working unix server.
I plugged in power to each.
I started up the mac. It shows the 1st drive on the desktop, but no others. Disk utility doesn't see the new drives either.
What did I miss?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Hi omoriginals ,
Welcome to the Discussions.
Your computer can only mount two drives unless you add another ATA controller card in an empty PCI slot. There's one bus that has the ability to control two drives.
The additional drive and cable you installed will need to be removed. The other that you attached to the existing data cable needs to have its jumper set to "slave" and then attach it to the center position on the cable. The jumpers are small plastic and metal blocks that connect two pins located next to where the data cable attaches to the drive. There should be a diagram on the drive for the settings. Just set it, reinstall then format it with Disk Utility (in your Utilities folder).
John

Boot Camp and XP on 3rd Drive

I have a MAC PRO with 4- 300GB drives. Is it possible to use boot camp for windows XP on Drive 3? I have tried it once and when xp asks to shut down and restart it tries loading xp on the main drive (drive 1) where my OS system resides. AM I trying to do something that is not possible?

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
not impossible since I have my BootCamp Windows XP SP2 on my second HD (together with a 100GB OSX 'playground') ever since BootCamp was Beta.
Never had any problems with it.
Stefan

Installing Windows 7 with boot camp as whole partition on 2nd internal hard drive

Hi all,
I am unsure what is the recent changes with Apple boot camp. But when I used boot camp utilitiy on my Mac Pro (Mid 2010) to install windows 7 64 bits. It would not install and created a whole lot of problems.
After I initialise the process to install windows 7 using boot camp utilities, I chose the option to create a single partition to installl windows 7 on my secondary internal hard drive (1TB). After I restarted my Mac Pro and started the Windows 7 installation process, I was unable to install Windows 7 on the BOOTCAMP partition created by the boot camp utilitiy. I got an error something about Windows cannot be installed on the selected forum because the driver contained GPT details.
I tried to format the BOOTCAMP partition, but it ended up with errors. I tried to delete and recreate the BOOTCAMP partition in Windows setup, but failed with errors again. As I could not go any further with the Windows 7 installation, I had to hard reset my Mac Pro and tried to reboot back into Mac OS X Lion and that's when the nightmare begin.
Not only I could not boot into OS X, I could not use any of the startup key combinations (i.e. Hold option key to select start up disk, option + R to boot the lion recovery drive, not boot from any external firewire drive installed with OS X Lion). Basically none of the key combinations worked except for the holdingi F12 and mouse key to eject CD.
The only thing I could boot the Mac Pro with is the windows installation CD and Linux Ubuntu Raring Distro. I can install the ubuntu distro without any issue. However, I could not boot my mac pro back into OS X as Linux does not support bootcamp. The only way I could use Mac OS X Lion again is to delete the partition OS X Lion was installed on, and then I was be able to install Windows 7 without any issue.
After installing windows 7 I would have to download boot camp and then use the boot camp control panel to restart in the Mac Pro installation DVD and I will have to reinstall OS X again. After installing OS X, I went to System Preference and tried to select Windows 7 as startup disc. But I failed to as it says "Windows 7" Was installed via another utility. I would have to erase the partition and reinstall Windows 7 again using bootcamp utility. If I try to install windows 7 again, the horror I described above repeats again.
From my understanding, the Boot camp utility creates a new EFI bootrom with Master Boot Record (MBR) in FAT32 format. Therefore I could not boot back into Mac OS X without using boot camp in windows 7 as none of the boot combinations key worked.
I want to ask if anyone is experiencing the same issue as i do, and if there are any solutions to the problem I am experiencing. I never had such issue before. I was able to install Windows 7 on my 2ndary internal hard drive without issue using boot camp. I don't what has changed. I have googled for solution, I only found something related to XOM but nothing else.
If anyone can provide me with any help in regards to installing Windows 7 as a whole partition on a secondary internal hard drive. It'd be grealy appreciated. Thank you in advance.

If you have driver issue, just pre-download the boot camp drivers and save them on an external drive or burn them onto a cd, you will be able to load drivers via the advanced installation option during windows setup, that is if your osx partition isn't actively preventing you from installing win7 on the BOOTCAMP Partition created by boot camp assistant, I find this rather ironic, took me 3 days to figure out this issue, I was stuck without being able to boot into anything beside the windows cd, which wasn't even helpful as I could not install windows as I did not want to delete my osx partition. I lost all my data becsuse of it, as I had no idea what was going on. I tried to recover the partition using testdisk, hfsprogs and gparted in ubuntu life cd but they dont support HFS+. As I could not access osx terminal (couldn't even boot into osx installation dvd with that dreaded MBR created by boot csmp). I could not use pdisk in terminal to restore the osx partition map. Though luck for me. Called applecare and they had no idea what the problem was, and as usual they orgsnised for hard drive replacement. But it was clearly a software issue.
They will have to fix bay2 for me as I can no longer detect any hard disk connected to that bay.

2011 Mac Mini - Boot up on 2nd internal hard drive?

Hi folks,
I just picked up a Mac Mini today, after I lost all patience with my circa 2007 MacBook Pro when it stopped booting up this morning. I ordered more RAM and am planning to install the recently replaced hard drive from my MBP into my Mac Mini. I'm just wondering, will that drive just show up as another hard drive, similar to the way that external hard drives appear? And more importantly, the old hard drive has an older version of Snow Leopard installed, as well as a bunch of software, including my Adobe CS software. I've already jumped through hoops with Adobe to get my software reinstalled on my MBP a few months ago, and I don't feel like dealing with that again. So if the drive does show up as a separate device, can I just run my Adobe software from that drive? Or do I have to reboot but select that old hard drive at startup (if that's even an option) to run all software on it?
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Booting from a different partition of an external hard drive

Any chance anyone could offer some advice for my asthmatic iBook G4?
The internal hard drive has given up the ghost.
I have re-installed Mac OS X 10.3.3 on a NEW external portable drive which I have partitioned. I have copied the contents of the farked internal HD - Mac OS X 10.3.9 to partition 2 of the external drive. Partition 1 currently has the re-installed recovery version OS X 10.3.3 on it and is now the selected drive and volume to boot from. However I now want to change the boot volume from partition 1 to partition 2 which includes all the OS updates to 10.3.9 plus all my user preferences, etc.
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I am thinking now that the Start Up menu is able to only recognise 2 drives - the internal and an external one which is connected by Firewire 400 port of which there is only one. Or only distinct drives. It can't recognise separate partitioned drives which would be pretty pi$$ poor. There are two other USB ports but I guess these are for other peripherals.
So how can I get my iBook G4 to boot from Partition 2 of the NEW external drive?
Just to re-iterate my iBook boots fine from the NEW portable hard drive partition 1, but this partition only has the OS X system as per the recovery disc.
My Mac is starting to really test my patience.
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Limnos wrote:
*In order to produce a bootable copy of the system on another volume you have to copy it using a cloning utility. Plain drag and drop will not work with OSX*.
[CarbonCopy Cloner|http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html] (donationware)
[SuperDuper|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html] (shareware)
[IBackup|http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html] (free)
The Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X. [Kappy's directions|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8799711#8799711]
[Tri-Backup (commercial)|http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html] (payware)
[Silverkeeper|http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper> (free) - version 2 has some issues (references: [here|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d12jan2009], and [here|http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/backup/index.html#d13jan2009]) and it is recommended Tiger users stick with 1.1.4.
[Kappy's Backup Software Recommendations|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9065665#9065665]
[Overview of Mac OS X Backup Programs|http://8help.osu.edu/1247.html]
Drag and drop is what I did so I will have to use CarbonCopy Cloner. Thanks for the tip. I shall report back shortly.

I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?

I have recently purchased a hybred 750GbHDD as an upgrade for my MAC Book Pro (Intell Version) I have a boot camp partition to the original 500GB HDD. How can I expand both partitions to fit the new drive?
I have tried bootcamp and have had no luck due to the fact that boot camp doesn't see the additional HDD space of 250Gb. What am I not doing?

Ouch, well there is a problem.
This is the stack of partitions on your old drive
EFI (hidden)
Lion (50GB say)
Bootcamp (50GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
This is the same stack on your new drive imaged from the old one.
EFI (hidden)
Lion (50GB say)
Bootcamp (50GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
Emtpy Space (100GB say)
This is what you want
EFI (hidden)
Lion (100GB say)
Bootcamp (100GB say)
Lion Recovery Partiton (hidden)
EFI has to be at the top of the drive and Lion Recovery has to be at the bottom of the drive.
And you only have four partitions.
You can't move the Lion Recovery Partition or Bootcamp partiton, however you can expand the Lion Partition into empty space below it. (but can't delete or move the Lion Recovery partition)
Your Duplicator duplicated perfectly, too perfectly Likely would work with same sized drives/partitions.
This is what your going to need to do.
You need to move the Bootcamp partition to a blank external drive using WinClone and disconnect. This is so you have two backups of it. (one on your old 500GB drive)
You will need a drive enclousre or IDE/SATA to USB adapter cable for the older 500GB drive and option key boot from it. (some enclosures can't be booted from so check first Other World Computing is good place to ask)
Download the free Carbon Copy Cloner, grab any new files off the new 750GB internal drive to the old 500GB your booted from.
Open Apple's Disk Utility and Erase with Zero option the entire internal 750GB drive and let it rip, this will map off as many bad sectors and improve reliability.
Now use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the 500GB Lion + Lion Recovery Partitions to the internal 750GB, it will "fix" things and place Lion Recovery at the bottom of the drive where it belongs, give all the extra space to OS X Lion.
Next your going to have to follow WinClones instructions to restore your Bootcamp, likely you will have to recreate the Bootcamp partition first (in Bootcamp) to the size you want and then clone. Likely Winclone may "fix" Windows to recognize it's in a new larger partition now. I don't know you'll have to check as I haven't used it.
When Bootcamp creates the partition it will place it near the bottom next to the Lion Recovery Partition.
As you know you will have to re-validate Windows with Lord Redmond or it expires as you changed the hardware.

Can I boot into Windows if it is partitioned on a second hard drive?

I want to put my 2009 MBP hard drive into a 2012 MBP by replacing the optical drive with the 2009 hard drive in a caddy. The 2009 has Windows partitioned on it already through bootcamp.
Will I be able to boot into windows through the second drive or will I have to bootcamp the new 2012 drive with Windows?

OK Cool. I think I will try that. Thanks for the tip. I appreciate it.

Boot Camp partition data disappeared - No DVD drive

Up until today my Boot Camp partition was working swimmingly.
Today, I was greeted with the "bootmgr not found" error. After restarting into OSX, none of my files on the drive show up (I have Paragon NTFS) pictured below:
It looks like the data is still there, but something in the partition tables/mbr is messed up. If possible, I'd like to salvage the existing data.
To complicate things, I don't have a DVD drive on my MBP. Also, apparently I cannot boot from windows USB keys.
This makes the usual windows boot repair difficult.
My attempted solution, which worked to get windows installed in the first place was to make a new partition, and copy Windows install files to it, but I can't seem to get that to boot, either. I tried using Boot Camp Assistant to prepare the files, as well as unetbootin. I also tried formatting as both HFS and Fat, and copying the files from the windows install disk. I also installed rEFIt, but I just get errors when attempting to boot the install partition.
My last ditch attempt was to rig something through VMware fusion to repair the drive by mounting it as a raw disk,
and loading my Windows 7 ISO to perform the repair, but raw disks don't seem to work well with partitions, and I didn't want to nuke all of my data.
Does anyone have suggestions as to how I might fix this drive, to at least grab some files off of it?
Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

To clarify, in Bootcamp the " This disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved" error is relating to my OSX boot drive - 128Gb SSD. It currently has ~30gb free. Is there a way I can clone this data, and restore it without a DVD drive, or some other bootable media?
Not being able to create a second partition is on my second drive, 320Gb. Which has 64Gb free. Searching around the net, I saw that resizing a partition to it's smallest possible size is the easiest way to defrag free space in OSX. I did that, and the option to create a second windows partition is still greyed out.
Even if I nuke the existing bootcamp partition, I need another working, bootable partition that I can boot the Win 7 disc from. Not sure what's changed since my initial install, but it seems even more difficult this time.
I'll try using carbon copy cloner on my system partition, and test if it's bootable from USB. I'm running out of Ideas.

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I installed a boot camp partition on a 3T fusion drive. Running disk utility afterward it looks like this.
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I have been using Drive Genius to adjust the size of my boot partition larger. But it doesn't seem to allow for much increase, even though I deleted the second partition and tried to apply the disk space to DH1: (boot - there is a single partition on the hard drive now.)
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You don't want to make a disc image. You want to clone to an external drive:
How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Once you finish the clone open Startup Disk and set the clone as your startup volume, then click on the Restart button. You should now boot from the clone. You can then repartition the internal hard drive the way you want, then clone the external drive to the internal one.

Hard Drive Migration w/Boot Partition

I am currently running an Arch media box/server from which I am planning to move all home server functionality onto a new piece of hardware. It currently has two hard drives setup in it (/dev/sda & /dev/sdb) which are setup with lvm. I am planning to move the bigger of the two hard drives (/dev/sdb) into the new server box. Since I'm using lvm, and the install is currently small enough to fit entirely on /dev/sda, this is mostly non-problematic. However, the caveat is that my boot partition is installed on /dev/sdb on a regular ext2 partition whith the bootloader installed to the MBR of /dev/sdb. Does anyone know of a good way I could setup /dev/sda for booting the system?
Also, if anyone knows of a way to setup /boot on an lvm partition so I could avoid this problem again in the future, that would be welcome additional information
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No. Not "directly", no.
If you have a separate /boot partition, only the bootloader's config file and /etc/fstab will have to be adjusted.
But if you don't have a separate /boot partition you will need to reinstall the bootloader -- which is really not that difficult. Each bootloader has their own wiki page.
For example:
Syslinux:
$ sudo extlinux --install /boot/syslinux
$ sudo dd bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1 if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb
GRUB Legacy:
$ sudo grub-install /dev/sdb
GRUB 2 (I have only tested this from a chroot, and using a "live" Linux distribution):
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@Steve Holton: Sorry Steve, but you're wrong about that one . I'm using 10.8 (purchased and downloaded) on the internal HD of this MBP8,3 (2.2 GHz, 17"), and I am also able to boot into 10.7.4 and 10.6.8 from external FW800 partitions.
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I need to resize the C:\ drive which has the OS on it.
The D:\ drive has lots of space on it but it also has a SQL Database that is ArchiOffice and some other minor software.
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Hi Susie2229,
Based on your description, I test in my Lab environment. However, it seems that can’t achieve your target via
Disk Management.
I Shrink Volume on E drive via Disk Management. Then an unallocated partition occurred. It’s in the right of
E drive (if the unallocated partition is next to C drive, you may be able to extend volume). However, when I right click the C drive, the Extend Volume option is grey out. I can’t extend the C drive by using that unallocated partition. If my testing process
didn’t follow your original thoughts. Please feel free to let me know.
There is a similar thread that you can refer to. It may help you.
How to extend system drive partition (C:) to get more capacity
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/how-to-extend-system-drive-partition-c-to-get-more/6acd8697-4292-4280-8270-049691d14598
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Best regards,
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Having an image of a drive; having a bootable backup; not relying on one backup method... those for me are essential. Time Backup is secondary.
Having a small emergency only boot volume for running repairs and maintenance, essential and more important than anything.
Having a 2nd at least backup image: you can try out updates, new drivers or software first.
Why can't TimeMachine be cloned? or consider using two TimeMachine sets that you alternate. What if one goes out?
The first six months of TimeMachine was way too much "1.0" beta testing and flimsy for me, it made lots of mistakes. I won't even turn it on for automatic backups.
There are utilities to change the schedule now.
Spotlight is another, it too gets in the way while working and can hurt performance when editing and working. Seems to be an option missing "index while idle" or move the index to another location.
How good something is you don't want to find out not during easily sailing and good weather, but when a storm brews and rough sailing.
HFS+ doesn't even deal with or notice a disk sector is weak or gone bad or report it let alone attempt to map it out. Yes, the disk drive itself maybe should, but doesn't look like it happens. So add another $149 utility to the mix of Disk Warrior and SuperDuper, SoftRAID just for having a better driver (the days of people buying Silverlining or Hard Disk Toolkit being long gone).
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