Chkdsk partitions without drive letters

Toshiba computers come with 4 partitions. I've looked up the partition characteristics using the following:
- Disk Management
- PowerQuest Partition Table Editor
- Partition Type codes at
   http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
The partitions are:
1. Type: 0x27 (Windows Recover Environment hidden partition)
   Size: 1.46 GiB
   Disk Management labels: Healthy (Active, Recover partition)
2. Type: 0x07 NTFS
   Size: Hundreds of GiB
   Disk Management labels:
      Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
3. Type: 0x17 (Hidden Internal File System
   Size: 22.37 GiB
   Disk Management labels: Healthy (Primary Partition)
4. Type: 0x17 (Hidden Internal File System
   Size: 12.83 GiB
   Disk Management labels: Healthy (Primary Partition)
I also have a paltry 1.x GiB of unallocated space after partition 4.
Partitions 2,3,4 are of types 0x07 and 0x17, which are well described at http://fixunix.com/help/9334-what-hidden-ifs-e-g-hpfs-0x17.html . Both are Internal File systems (IFSs), but 0x07 is unhidden while 0x17 is hidden. IFSs seem to be OS dependent:
- HPFS (OS/2)
- NTFS (Windows)
- Advanced unix or QUNX2.X(pre-1988)
From exchanges here and elsewhere, the feeling is that partition 1 is boot & SRP, while partitions 3 & 4 are for creating recovery discs (which don't come with the laptop), for disc-less recovery in case you don't have (or have access to) recovery discs, and for other-language versions of recovery. Partition 2 is simply C-drive, and contains the OS. When Ghosting, I use SRP switches for partition 1, and the clone satisfies the tests of booting properly, creating recovery discs, and doing disc-less recovery.
Partitions 1,3,4 do not have letter drives. So I was wondering whether I can still use chkdsk (and if I can do that for all the partitions at once, so much the better). I've surfed and found info on assigning letters to the partitions, but that option is grayed out in Disk Management. I am also concerned about the effects of assigning letters on the intended functions of those drives. Disk management, partitions, volumes, file systems -- stuff I never really knew about before having to clone (motivated by a boot failure scare).

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Disk partitions with same drive letters in Win 2k3

Hi
We are hosted a 2003 standard server in Vmware.Recently we did an extend in the hard disk partition.We are using the storage as San.After extending the partition it got extended successfully.But when we open disk management it was showing as two partitions
with the same letter.In my computer only showing one drive.Please suggest how this happened and what it actually meant.We are using dynamic disk.
Partition Size in My computer : 1.4 TB as one single drive
Disk Management : 1.2 TB & 200 GB ( Same drive letters with two drives)
We have recently extended the disk to 1.2 TB to 1.4 TB.
Thanks
Roo

Actually, this is normal for dynamic disks.
Dynamic disks, unlike basic, disks may have many (dynamic) partitions.
From the picture you posted it shows that:
Volume D: (1228.79GB) = Partition1 (1024.00GB) + Partition2(204.79GB).
For some reason, system was unable to extend Partition1, so it added Partition2 to the volume. This is perfectly normal.
You may read more about basic and dynamic disks at Technet library.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363785(v=vs.85).aspx

Tutorial - How to triple boot OSX, Linux and Windows 8.1 with a shared Data Partition without any third party Win / OSX softwares

This is not a question, but rather a personal guide that has proved to be running successfully.
I would like to thank numerous sources, including Christopher Murphy's suggestions at:
Re: Repairing Boot Camp after creating new partition
Before proceeding, there are certain concepts needs to know:
Why Boot Camp does NOT allow further partitioning of drives after Windows has installed?
Answer: Because the way Apple configures the Mac to be recognized as non UEFI capable system on Windows.
Quote from Christopher Murphy based on the above line:
However, Windows on Macs right now use CSM-BIOS mode in Mac firmware that presents BIOS to Windows rather than EFI. Windows thinks it's on a BIOS computer, and therefore mandates the use of MBR for boot disks, rather than GPT. So that's why we have this hybrid MBR+GPT approach on Mac with Windows on it. You inherit the limitations of MBR, which is four primary partitions.
So what does it means?
It means that OSX + EFI + Recovery HD + Boot Camp partition = 4 primary partitions and thus any attempt to modify the disk will render booting issues of either system.
For more info on GPT (GUID Partition Table disks VS Master Boot Record or MBR in short, you may visit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535%28v=vs.85%29.a spx)
So, how to overcome it?
The general guideline is to install ALL GPT ready OS first then create a Data partition, before installing Windows (Which is again, NOT supported GPT due to EFI configuration by Apple where end-users are not able to modify it).
Interestingly, since Mac Pro 2013 Late supports only Windows 8 and above, thus it is not known if this CSM-BIOS applies to it or not.
Do take note that GPT disks in Windows can only be booted when the system meets the 2 requirements:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535%28v=vs.85%29.a spx#gpt_faq_win7_boot
1) Windows x64 version (Which is a must for newer Macs. If you cannot go to Boot Camp 5, then you need Windows 7 x86 or 32bit version)
2) UEFI system. However, Windows sees all Macs (With the possibility of Mac Pro 2013 Late is an exception. To be determined) as BIOS, or rather NON-UEFI system.
In short, booting on GPT disks is not possible for Mac in Windows.
Summary,
It is tested that a combination of the following will not work:
- OSX + Windows + Linux
- Windows + OSX + Linux
- Windows + Linux + OSX
Usually it can create the system un-bootable or OSX refused to install due to the system does not recognize such partitions and / or Disk Utility refused to format a free space. An example screen-shot is provided below:
The error message is shown as
Title: "Failed to erase volume" Message: "Failed to wipe volume, as an error occurred: MediaKit has reported that the device does not have enough free space to execute the requested operations."
The second thing is about the preparations we need.
1) 1X Windows 7 or 8 DVD or USB thumbdrive
1A) If you uses a DVD to install, you will need another thumbdrive to load the BootCamp drivers for Windows as well as may requires an external DVD drive for newer Macs
2) 1X Linux DVD of your choice. Personally I choose Fedora 20.
So ready? Let's go.
1. Using Disk Utility, shrink the OSX's partition size to what is needed. For me, I give OSX 150GB. Do NOT create any new partition.
Disk Utility should see something like below whereby only OSX partition is left with desired disk space. The remaining space are to be unused disk space for the moment.
Note: Click on the top most item that should start with the size of your HDD / SSD. Then clicked on "Partition" and specify the desired OSX size. Hit "Apply" after that.
2: Download Boot Camp drivers only via Boot Camp Assistant. The USB thumbdrive shall be used later after Linux's installation.
Boot Camp Assistant should see this:
I have only selected "Download latest Windows Support Files from Apple"
3. Insert Linux DVD, reboot Mac into EFI mode (The left most first "EFI mode").
Note 1: Before rebooting, please plugged in an Ethernet adapter because Wi-Fi drivers is not installed.
Note 2: For Thunderbolt adapters, it must be plugged in before reboot as hot-swapping is not supported under Linux. More on the tips at the end of this article.
Note 3: Press and hold "Option" after the screen turns black. Release Option key after you see the image as below:

For the unfortunate part that did not make it on time to edit the images:
9. Install the Windows Support software from your CD/USB drive to gain full functionality of your computer. Reboot and go to Windows again.
Note 1: You may choose to eject disc at this point of time. For Apple SuperDrive users, you will need to wait until the drivers (i.e. Boot Camp support files) is installed and rebooted before ejecting is reasonably possible (As I failed to figured out how to right click without the drivers)
Note 2: Unlike Windows 7 on KBase article TS4599 Keyboard/trackpad inoperative, black screen, or alert messages when installing Windows 7, USB stick can be plugged in after the Windows installation is done. This is because Windows 7 (And probably Windows 7 with SP1 DVD) does not have a built in USB 3 drivers when it was released back in 2009 where USB3 has not arrived then.
Note 3: Due to TPM, Bitlocker is not supported without the use of thumbdrives.
10. Using Disk Management to determine the given drive letter for the DATA partition (DO NOT DELETE and RECREATE partition or else you can goodbye to booting Linux and OSX). Disk Management will not allow you to format it as exFAT / FAT32 in graphical way.
Note: You may remove or modify some of the disk letters in Disk Management. However, do NOT remove / modfify the drive letter for the partition with 200MB size in HFS. This is because it will disallow booting of Linux and neither could Windows nor OSX can do anything EXCEPT to reinstall Linux only.
11. Open Command Prompt in Administrator Mode (Important!!), and key in the following command:
format F: /FS:exFAT
Give this volume a label after it has successfully formatted before hitting "Enter" again.
Note: Mine Data partition was assigned as F drive. Please make necessary adjustment to "F:" should your Data partition is assigned to other letters.
12. After that, Setup your Data partition structure as you like.
Tip: Minimally create the important folders such as:
- Music
- Documents
- Movie (Videos)
- Downloads
- Pictures
All these folders are commonly used by the 3 OSes. I do NOT recommend changing of /home (OSX and / or Linux) and / or user home directory (Windows) either partially or as a whole.
This is because of compatibility issue.
On a side note, iTunes Media Library used in OSX and Windows are NOT able to be use interchangably due to hard-coded path used.
13. Useful troubleshooting in Fedora / Linux:
With references to these:
http://chaidarun.com/fedora-mbp
http://anderson.the-silvas.com/2014/02/14/fedora-20-on-a-macbook-pro-13-late-201 3-retina-display/
http://unencumberedbyfacts.com/2013/08/16/linux-on-a-macbook-pro-101/
I would like to highlight a few important points:
1) Wi-Fi driver:
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
Note 1: The sound driver should be installed at Out of Box Experience. However, the Wi-Fi is not.
Note 2: Install both free and non-free repository. By the way, some other software like VLC can only be found after the Free Repository is installed.
Search for "akmod-wl" in Gnome-Package-Installer in order to install Wi-Fi drivers
Note 3: For those who do not have Ethernet adapters and their Mac does NOT have a built-in Ethernet port, it is recommended to get one. This is because Fedora 20 does not have a good support for iPhone USB tethering. Unsure for Andriod / Blackberry / Windows Phone users.
2) Grub Menu:
It will show several options to boot into OSX, even of the capability to boot into x86 or x64 mode. However, neither of them is bootable except Linux and the rescue.
Hence, it is recommended to remove the items by hand in this file:
/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Command to be used:
"sudo gedit /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg"
Parts to be removed:
- For any extra kernels, delete the target entry by locating the line "menuentry" under "/etc/grub.d/10_linux" sector to one line above the next "menuentry".
It is recommended to keep one main kernel, and one recovery at the minimal.
- For other OS, delete all the entry (Since neither it can works) under "/etc/grub.d/30_os-prober" sector without removing the lines starts with ###.
Auto Mount exFAT partition:
- After installing extra packages for exFAT support (Since it is not supported by Fedora 20 from a default installation), you may wish to edit "/etc/fstab" in order to mount the exFAT partition during boot time.
Command to be used:
"sudo gedit /etc/fstab"
Add the following line in gedit:
UUID=702D-912D /run/media/Samuel/DATA exfat defaults 1 2
Note 1: For DATA partition, OSX & Boot Camp partition, Fedora defaults mounts under: "/run/medua/<Username with case sensitive>/<Partition Label Name>"
Note 2: UUID is unique ID. You can find out the UUID by:
Step 1: First determine the DATA partition number:
"sudo gdisk /dev/sda"
Step 2: Determine the UUID of this partition number:
"sudo blkid /dev/sda8"
Reference 1: http://manpages.courier-mta.org/htmlman5/fstab.5.html
Reference 2: http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/short-tip-get-uuid-of-hard-disks/
3) Overheating CPU
Solution is to issue the following command in Linux terminal: su -c "echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo"
4) System resumes immediately after suspend
Solution is to issue the following command in Linux terminal: su -c "echo XHC1 > /proc/acpi/wakeup"
5) What does not works well out of box:
- Both GNOME and KDE's fonts are too small to be readable for out of box experience. Additional configuration is a need. (Some of the info can be found on "More Tips" later)
- Thunderbolt hotplugging is NOT supported under Windows and Linux so far. Neither FaceTime HD camera works as well.
- The red light in Headphone jack is always on. I do not have luck in switching off the light without losing the sound.
Note 1: It is determined that the module "snd_hda_intel" is used by both cards (HDMI and normal output)
Note 2: It is also known that blacklisting it can switch off the redlight at the price of muting the system.
Note: Based on this article, http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1574
A Mac (Except Mac Pro) needs servicing when there is a red light while the system fails to detect internal speakers. However, this article does NOT applies to this issue.
5A) More Tips:
Install gnome-tweak-tool for more customization
Search for: "gnome-package" to install:
Install Gnome Package Installer for advanced package repository
Install Gnome Package Updater for advanced updates to be install (Whereby Fedora's App Store alike might not show the relevant updates)
14. Verify if disk is still GPT:
Use Gdisk to determine if the disk is pure GPT:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1742682
Command: sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda (The entire hard drive)
You should see the MBR is "Protective" instead of anything else.
15. Congrats, the system is ready for triple boot. (I forgot to eject my Windows DVD when the photo was taken)
Note 1: You cannot set the default startup disk in Linux due to the lack of Boot Camp Control Panel in Linux.
Neither is changing startup disk recommended in Windows due to the inability to display correctly.
For me, I click "Cancel" whenever I am on this tab (Feel free to make other Boot Camp adjustments in other tabs).
Only OSX I know that can show the startup disk options correctly.
Note 2: For some reason, OSX likes to auto mount the EFI partition everytime it boots up. It is not known to have any issue for ejecting other disks or mounting disks via Disk Utility.
Note 3: It is not determined if any Firmware or System upgrades will cause issues. It is only known that all 3 OS's regular updates should not be an issue.
System Updates excludes Mac OSX 10.9.3 updates to OSX 10.9.4 type as I had done it on a OSX 10.9.4 Mac or Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 Update 1 since my Windows DVD comes with Update 1.
System Upgrades refers to OSX Mavericks to Yosemite, Fedora 20 to Fedora 21, Windows 8.1 Update 1 to Windows 8.2 / Windows 9 for that matter.
Note 4: Reset SMC and / or PRAM will NOT affect your ability to boot any of the OS (OSX, Recovery HD, Fedora & Windows 8)
Yup, that is it!

New-Partition assignes driver letter to mount point after reboot.

Trying to create a series of mount points using powershell on Server 2012 R2. When I have used diskpart in the past I could initialize the disk, create a partition, format a volume and assign a mount point without assigning a driver letter to the drive.
When I try to do the same thing in Powershell on Server 2012 R2, everything looks great until I reboot. Every partition I created and assigned as a mount mount gets a driver letter added to it... I am using mount points to avoid drive letters. Is there a way
to prevent this behavior. The following is an example:
Get-Disk 3 | Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT
Get-Disk 3 | new-Partition -UseMaximumSize -AssignDriveLetter:$False | Format-volume -confirm:$False
Add-Partitionaccesspath -DiskNumber 3 -Partition 2 -AccessPath c:\someFolder
Everything looks good at this point with no driver letter assigned. Rebooting adds a driver letter to the volume with no impact on the mount point... Is there a way to suppress the driver letter assignment?

Figured it out... It appears that this part works fine:
Get-Disk 3 | Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT
$Part = Get-Disk 3 | new-Partition -UseMaximumSize -AssignDriveLetter:$False
$Part | set-partition -NoDefaultDriveLetter:$True
$Part | Format-volume -confirm:$False
If you look at the output of Get-Partition the NoDefaultDriveLetter value is TRUE. After running Add-PartitionAccessPath it changes to FALSE. You can set it back with the Set-Partition command:
Get-Partition -DiskNumber 3 -Partition 2 | add-PartitionAccessPath c:\SomePath -passthru | set-Partition -NoDefaultDriveLetter:$True
I had a bunch of them to do so I used the following:
Function Config-Disk {
[cmdletbinding()]
Param(
[INT]$Disk,
[INT]$Partition = 2,
[String]$Label,
[String]$MountPoint
Get-Disk $Disk | Initialize-Disk -Partitionstyle GPT
Get-Disk $Disk | New-Partition -UseMaximumSize |
Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel $Label -Confirm:$False
Add-PartitionAccessPath -DiskNumber $Disk -PartitionNumber $Partition -AccessPath $MountPoint -Passthru |
set-Partition -NoDefaultDriveLetter:$True
MD "c:\SomeLocation1"
MD "c:\SomeLocation2"
Config-Disk -Disk 3 -Label "SomeLabel1" -MountPoint "c:\SomeLocation1"
Config-Disk -Disk 4 -Label "SomeLabel2" -MountPoint "c:\SomeLocation2"

Rescue and Recovery Drive letters - error message

Trying to run Rescue and recovery after partitioning my hard drive results in the following error message:
"The last backup of this system included the following drive letters:
C:
Your system is currently backing up the following drive letters:
C:
E:
Please set the letters as they were previously and retry the backup. You may need to exclude partitions created since the last backup"
NOw I have changed the options to exclude E: but I was wondering is there any way to include it in backups - would I have to back up to a USB hard drive without any previous backups on it? And is it a good idea to use R&R to backup partitions?
Any advice much appreciated!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Sorted - needed a formatted backup USB disk and that worked fine.

I have partitioned my time capsule, but I can't get it to work as a Time Machine back up and permanent media server for both mac and PC. What format do I need to partition the drive to so that it works for both mac and windows and so that it will be visab

I have partitioned my time capsule, as I want part of it to act as a media server for both mac and windows. However I don't know what format that I need to partition it to. I also can't make it a permanently accesible drive. I want to restore the drive to the original format (which I don't know) and start again and re-partition the drive in a format that can be used for media by both mac and PC and for time machine back-ups and make the media part of it permanetly accesible so I can add and acccess my files.
Thanks

You are mixing up a couple of things here.
The TC drive cannot be partitioned without removing it.. did you do that?
If you partition it you must use a Mac disk utility and use the HFS+ ie standard Mac format. And GUID partition table not windows type.
You can select erase disk in the airport utility.. that will take the disk back to original format. No partitions. TC is deliberately not partitioned as it is not a media server.. it is a backup device for TM. Over time .. the disk will be filled with TM backups so you have a long history of file changes to your computer.
There is no media server in the TC.. it is merely disk storage.. you can serve files from it to a media device.. but the TC itself is dumb as dumb.
Now the actual format of the drive is irrelevant to the PC.. The TC offers SMB file services to the network. You can copy files to and from the TC as if it was a local disk without caring one iota about the format. The TC handles that .. it is not a local disk .. it is a network drive.
Although you cannot partition the TC. you can still copy files to it.. this does have implications for TM.. but as long as there is plenty of free space should not be a major issue.
You can create a disk image via the disk utility in a Mac.. and as stated you can create partitions if you do it on a Mac with the disk directly connected which means breaking warranty if any exists on the TC.

How to partition my drive for Mac and XP use? from a novice

I would like to use my MacBook Pro for both Mac ad PC programs (Office and others) and hear that I can partition the drive. How is the best way to do that? Also I have an external Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external drive to set up that supposedly can back up both Mac and PC without formatting each time. Do I have to partition the drive first? Do I use Time Machine?

Is it your intent to run Windows programs on your computer? If so then this is more than simply a partitioning exercise.
In order to use an external drive on both Macs and PCs there are two options. Option One is to partition and format the drive MBP and FAT32, respectively. OS X can read/write a FAT32 formatted drive. However, due to filesystem differences some features of the OS X filesystem are not supported by FAT32, so FAT32 is not the best choice for transferring OS X documents, but would be fine for transferring Windows documents.
Option Two is to partition the drive using GUID then creating two partitions. One partition is formatted Mac OS Extended, Journaled and the other partition is formatted FAT32. Each partition can be used for the data from the appropriate platform.
TM is not a file transfer program, cannot be used for Windows documents, and does not work on Windows.
If you wish to run Windows on your Mac then see the following:
Windows on Intel Macs
There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.
1. Install the Apple Boot Camp software. Purchase Windows XP w/Service Pak2, Vista, or Windows 7. Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows. Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.
2. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
3. VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7. VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
4. CrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows. The Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X.
5. VirtualBox is a new Open Source freeware virtual machine such as VM Fusion and Parallels that was developed by Solaris. It is not as fully developed for the Mac as Parallels and VM Fusion.
Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc. There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization. The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system.
See MacTech.com's Virtualization Benchmarking for comparisons of Boot Camp, Parallels, and VM Fusion. Boot Camp is only available with Leopard or Snow Leopard. Except for Crossover and a couple of similar alternatives like DarWine you must have a valid installer disc for Windows. You must also have an internal optical drive for installing Windows. Windows cannot be installed from an external optical drive.

Can I back up a bootable partition from an APM drive to a GUID-partitioned hard drive for storage, later to be able to clone restore the backup back to an APM and have it be bootable on a PowerPC?

Tongue twister of a question, huh?
I am creating a APM-partitioned hard drive for use with a PowerPC iMac G5, so I can have a fresh OS install on one as a reference, and the other be my usable OS. Now, I also want to back both of these partitions up on a storage hard drive that I also want to contain partitions that are bootable on an Intel mac (GUID). My question is, can I clone my APM partitions as backup to designated partitions on my GUID backup/storage hard drive (which I plan on being able to boot other partions on an Intel Mac), and have the option of later cloning the same APM partitions back to an APM-paritioned hard drive and have them still be bootable on a Power PC? I know I won't be able to boot a Power PC from off of the GUID-paritioned drive, but I want to be able to restore my APM-partitioned drive incase things go sour with it.
Thanks so much for your time, guys!

Block-level copier that copies not just the files but the filesystem structure as well. But files can be moved from GUID to APM partitioned devices without any effect on the file. The partition scheme affects whether an installed system will boot a particular type of hardware.
If you installed OS X on a GUID partitioned drive you would not be able to boot a PPC Mac.
And, you're most welcome.
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I want to partition my drive. how do I do this

I have the Mac Book Pro and would like to partition my drive so I can take some programs off of my sony vaio that are only available in windows. Can I do this myself or do I have to take my computer in?

Every Mac comes with a utility called Boot Camp Assistant. It will help you setup and install Windows in a separate partition. With Lion you will need a copy of Windows 7 as it is not compatible with XP.
If later on you want to move up to, say, Parallers Desktop, you can, without having to reinstall Windows, and using either one.
Right now, Parallers Desktop seems to have the best reviews.

Partitioning Hard Drive for Use with Mac (Time Machine) and Windows

I have a brand new Imac on which I am also running WIndows Vista through Boot Camp (sweet, by the way). I have a large external hard drive on which I set up Time Machine easily enough. I would like to partition the drive somehow so that I could use half the drive to separately back up files on the WIndows side, but I can't seem to do this. Any suggestions? Is this even possible with Time Machine?

You can use Disk Utility create two partitions. Choose FAT for the Windows partition and Mac Extended (Journaled) for the Mac. One limitation of FAT32 is that you can't write files bigger than 4GB. You can reformat this partition as NTFS within Vista which will allow bigger file sizes but you won't be able to write to this partition from within OS X without other utilities. Also you can't write to the OS X partition from Vista without other software.
Time Machine will not be able to back up the windows formatted drive partition.

In trying to free up memory on my C: drive,I'm trying to move iTunes to a partitioned D: drive but my iPad then doesn't "see" the computer to sync. Is it safe to erase andreload?

In trying to free up memory on my C: drive, I'm trying to move iTunes to a partitioned D: drive but my iPad then sees it as a "new" computer and won't sync without erasing and re-synching. Any suggestions?

In trying to free up memory on my C: drive, I'm trying to move iTunes to a partitioned D: drive but my iPad then sees it as a "new" computer and won't sync without erasing and re-synching. Any suggestions?

Little Known Fact About Mapping Drive Letters

It's easy enough to create a shared folder on one computer and map a drive letter to access the folder on a different computer. Usually the mechanism behaves flawlessly with a hiccup here and there. But, did you know, that a logged on session has two sets
of drive letters? It's true. You create drive letters whilst not running as administrator and you access those drive letters whilst running as not administrator. But, the moment you run as administrator, those drive letters vanish without a peep of explanation
from Windows. However, you are free to create drive letters as administrator and access those drive letters as administrator. I'm sure there is a very good technical reason for this. Something about a security token being different between the two states.
But that does not forgive whoever is responsible for warning the end users about this.
MARK D ROCKMAN

you are correct when you log on even as administrator your rights are still a user, when you attempt a task that requires the administrator privilege you are elevated to that level, if you have UAC turned on you would see the box come up. this is to inform
you that you are now running under administrator privileges, this is by design, this is also what happens when you run the command prompt as a administrator. It's mostly for security reasons imagine a virus or a program being able to launch a elevated
command and basically taking over the networks shared information simply because you opened a command prompt wit admin rights.
Microsoft has many people that keep saying "how come I can do this and access this" they then publish their findings and the malicious software people take advantage of the security hole so they have to patch, you shouldn't be mad at Microsoft
"I don't work there" be mad at the people creating malicious code.

I tried to install windows and forgot to partition a drive?

So i bought a copy of windows to install on my Macbook Air and i forgot to partition a drive for it. I selected the "boot with disk" option and then i restarted. So windows setup starts but i would have to format a system drive to run it. If my disc drive isn't plugged in the computer goes to the black screen and says "no bootable disc found". Is there anything i can do from home? Any help

Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive
Ejecting the stuck disc can usually be done in one of the following ways:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the left mouse button until the disc ejects.
2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
5. If none of the above work try this:
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following:
/usr/bin/drutil eject
If this fails then try this:
Boot the computer into single-user mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above. To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.
You cannot install Windows using a Dell specific installer disc. You need a retail copy of Windows.

Can I create a Bootcamp partition without installing Windows immediately?

I have a clone of my bootcamp that contains Windows 7, but can't restore to the Clone without a Bootcamp partition.
I am running Lion.
Is there anyway to create the bootcamp partition without the Windows Install Disk?...if so, I could just restore my Cloned Bootcamp onto the Bootcamp Parition.
Thank you,
AK

Wait...after I hit send, I realized you had cloned your boot camp parition with winclone. My bad...well, you can always try putting the cloned partition on the exFAT partition, if possible. I think what I had to do when I bought a new hard drive was to boot into the old had drive. I then attached the new drive with a handy universal drive kit (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NVSPATA/). I think I used iPartition to create an NTFS partition on my new drive. I then copied my cloned Windows partition onto the new drive.

Partition External Drive

Hi,
I am looking to create a duplicate of my iMac drive onto my external drive. My question is:
Is it necessary to partition the drive using Disk Utility or can I use a program like Disk Studio or iPartition to partition the drive without having to wipe it clean. These apps would be preferable for me because I already have stuff on my external.
In other words has anyone had experience with the above applications? Is it safe?
Thanks in advance!

If you have formatted your drive to the GUID format then you should be ok. I used the disk utility to wipe and reformat my external drive. Bring the info from your external drive to your internal. Reformat the external (GUID) and then just put the info back on your external drive.
Better yet make that external a bootable drive by cloning your startup drive. I use a program called DataBackup. It does a nice job it will compress the data and I can schedule it to run in the background.

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