Cannot make changes to system HD - partition layout greyed out

Hi!
I recently reformatted my entire drive and reinstalled Lion with the official Lion USB recovery tool/usb. Now in disk utility the Partition Layout option is greyed out and I can not seem to re partition my disk. I´ve tried repairing my disk rights but still its greyed out.
I ran a demo of iPartition and this message was flagged:
"You cannot make changes to the disk from which your system booted.
To make changes to this disk, you should either boot from an external drive, use Target Disk Mode with another Mac, or create a bootable CD/DVD."
Does this mean I can only make changes with it when booting with the usb? This doesn´t make sense as it worked on the default startdisk before. Does anyone have solution?

i_Tim_ wrote:
It worked with the usb key, thank you!
You're welcome. Glad that worked for you.
But isn´t there a way to transfer the rights back to my disk or/and the integrated recovery partition?
I do not know the process. I suspect you'd get a quick answer by posting in the Lion forums: https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion
Good luck to you.

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> Regards,
> Sankar
I dont understand what to do in point 1, how to generate view of table, can you make it little easier to follow. I tried database table i.e. ekko and when I click change it asks access key, which I dont have as I guess I have to get it from SAP..
Edited by: Afshad Irani on Aug 17, 2010 12:30 PM

Finder wants to make changes to system.preferences

Every time we login to our iMac, a window comes up with "Finder wants to make changes" and asks for my password. The details indicate the change is to the system.preferences file, but I can't recall trying to make any changes.
How do I make sure that someone (e.g., one of our kids) didn't change system.preferences? And how do I keep the message from coming up?
(Note that up to now, I've been clickin on "Cancel".)

DrNuke98 wrote:
details indicate the change is to the system.preferences file
Are you sure this is the correct message? There shouldn't be any file with the name "system.preferences". Post the exact message.

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I have a Dell laptop with two physical hard drives. When I installed Windows 7, I deleted all the partitions on both physical disks. I installed windows and left the second disk unallocated. So why did the installer decide to place the 100MB System Reserved partition on the disk that wasn't being used?
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8403/partitionsi.jpg

I found the solution to the problem I described above. Here was the approach to resolve.
Install SATA Y-Power cable jumper on one of the SATA connectors. This gives me capability to power 3 SATA SSD drives
Install the third drive.
Start Windows and initialize the new drive. Now I have 3 drives.
Clone Drive C (Drive 0) to the new (third) Hard Drive (call it Drive 2). I used Acronis True Image Home.
Remove Hard Drives 0 and 1
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Run Startup Repair on this drive (drive 2) by loading the Windows Media CD and selecting the only drive installed (Drive 2)
If successful, I would have created a Drive that can boot on its own and has my image and data. If unsuccessful, I put back in Drives 0 and 1 and I am back up and running. I this is a zero risk approach.
Here are the results:
Success!
I got the power jumper cable in and executed the steps below. The below procedure worked flawlessly. The loading of the Windows CD took me to a Repair option that sensed a problem with Startup. If failed
to see the Windows installation on the Cloned drive (now drive 0). This was expected. It asked me if I wanted to fix it. I said yes. The system restarted and there was another boot error. I loaded the Windows CD again. This time it saw the Windows 7 Installation
and told me there were Startup problems that needed to be fixed. I said yes again. The system restarted and Windows came right up!
So now I can boot from one drive. I am going to run like this for a couple of days just to be sure. Then I am going to reconnect the other two drives as drives 1 and 2 and figure a way to use them effectively.
Good luck!
George

HT1918 Trying to make make account changes to my itunes account. Receive error message regarding province "enter at most 3 letters" when the only option I have is to select from a drop down menu. Cannot make changes to my account. How do I get this fix

As you can tell, this is my first post
I am attempting to make changes to my itunes account, but when I hit done, an error message "enter at most 3 letters or numbers for province" appears. I have not attempted to make any modificaitons to this field. The only options I have for data in this field are picked from a drop down menu. I have no idea why this msg is appearing. Any ideas on why it is showing up? Thanks.

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