Creating a Snow Leopard Partition

I do need to be able to access my old Palm desktop data files, files on my old Zip disks, + some old games and other apps that never made the intel transition and so I UNFORTUNATELY will be needing to create a 10GB or so SL partition. I have never done this in Mac OSX, but I did it dozens of times in OS 7-9. In those days this was a royal pain as one needed to reformat the entire hard drive just for the daunting task. Can someone kindly explain to me how to do this in Mountain Lion? Overall I love ML, but there are a few missing features that I miss, and running PPC apps is one of them. Thank you.

I think if you aggressively look on the internet and eBay, you can find some discounting of the cost of Parallels.  Also they will offer the $49 update price if you can show you use a competitive product, such as VMWare.
On a similar line of thought, you could download the free VirtualBox and try it out and make some screenshots and then approach Parallels and see if that will get the "upgrade" price.  Be aggressive!
I could always waive my Parallels commission! hahahahahaha
Older PowerPC Macs only booted from Firewire; newer Intel Macs will now boot from USB external drives as well.  The "dual-boot" solution is another available choice, but will not allow you to have access to Mountain Lion concurrrently with Snow Leopard.
If you do follow my instructions for Parallels, be sure to follow STEP ONE in Snow Leopard or Lion, as there are currently problems completing STEP ONE in Mountain Lion.  The resulting .cdr file of the modified Snow Leopard Install DVD can then be moved to Mountain Lion and the remaining STEPS completed there.
Parallels offers a 14 day free trial version:
http://trial.parallels.com/index.php?lang=en&terr=us
You reacted to the elimination of Bootcamp negatively in this thread; and if you use Bootcamp, then you use Windows. Once you own Parallels, you can then use it for WIndows on the Mac as well.  Also Parallels can run Windows XP in Mountain Lion, even though Bootcamp will not; and Windows XP can be obtained relatively inexpensively on eBay and other sources.

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    I just upgraded to Lion, and unfortunately, can't access my Quicken 2007.  (Didn't realize Quicken didn't work in Lion until after I downloaded it.  Clearly, I live in a barrel.)  I just downloaded iBank and need to export my Quicken data to it.  From what I understand, I need to create a Snow Leopard partition where I can export my info.
    My question is, how do I do this? Although I know a lot about a lot of things, this isn't one of my areas of expertise, so please be gentle and walk me through it. 
    Thanks SO very much!

    To resize the drive do the following:
    1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
    After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
    2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
    3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.  (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
    4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
    You should now have a new volume on the drive.
    It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss.  Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
    Boot From The Snow Leopard Installer Disc and Install:
    Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
    Restart the computer.
    Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
    Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
    Wait for installer to finish loading.
    Install Snow Leopard on the newly created partition.

  • How do I fix a permissions problem that's emerged since I created a Snow Leopard partition on my Lion iMac?

    I recently partitioned my iMac, which was running Lion, so I could open old files created by apps like AppleWorks. I installed Snow Leopard in the new partition and the apps I moved there are running fine. But now when I'm using Lion and want to save or open a file, I'm frequently told I don't have permission to access or change the enclosing folder. I've tried using Disk Utilty and also manually resetting permissions on my Lion Home folder. All fixes seem temporary at best. I don't know why I'm having this problem or how to fix it.  I also don't know why there's a third (Recovery) partition I didn't create. Can I get rid of it?

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  • Can't Boot from Snow Leopard Partition

    I have a Macbook Pro from 2008. It previously just had one partition, with Lion on it.
    I created a new partition for Snow Leopard
    I installed Snow leopard from a retail disk on the second partition. The installation went fine, and I got the message at the end that the installation was successful, and to restart the computer.
    When I restart it, it just goes to the gray Apple screen, with the spinning gear, and never gets farther than that. The gear is spinning.
    I can still boot successfully into Lion. Once I booted into Lion, I chose the Snow Leopard partition as the Startup Disk, but the same thing happens - just the gray Apple screen and spinning gear. I've let the machine sit for half an hour in that state, but it still does nothing but the spinning gear.
    Any ideas on why I can't boot successfully into Snow Leopard and how I can fix it?
    Thanks.

    I already knew that I'm free to follow my own course, but thanks for giving me your permission (???)
    And would knowing the original OS of the machine make any difference in your "advice"? If it was originally Leopard, would that make it any different than if it was Tiger? Answer: No, because you don't understand the problem, and you don't know how to fix it.
    Thanks.
    If anyone ACTUALLY KNOWS anything about this problem, please post, as many others will benefit.
    If you DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW anything about the problem, either DON'T POST HERE, or else qualify your information to indicate that you are guessing. I'm open to suggestions and speculation, but could you please CHECK YOUR EGO AT THE DOOR, and tell people that you are GUESSING what the problem might be. You don't need to act like you are some great authority and try to make your random guesswork look like an established fact.
    If you were walking in New York City, and you ask someone how to get to Carnegie Hall, but the person doesn't even know where Carnegie Hall is, would you rather:
    1) Have the person tell you a bunch of random wrong information that could cause you wander aimlessly for hours?
    OR
    2) Have the person politely tell you they don't know where Carnegie Hall is, and that you should ask someone else?
    IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER, THEN DON'T ANSWER.
    OR IF YOU ARE GUESSING OR MAKING A SUGGESTION, THEN QUALIFY YOUR STATEMENTS SO PEOPLE KNOW YOUR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING.
    YOU DON'T HELP BY GIVING WRONG INFORMATION. YOU DON'T HELP BY STATING YOUR GUESSWORK AS A FACT.
    Why do people not have the slightest amount of common sense here? Are you getting paid to just post random wrong info here or something?

  • Damaged snow leopard partition

    Hello everyone!
    Sorry if i make some mistake, i'm a french mac user. =)
    I have a 2006 MBP and everything worked very well since this morning. I tried to boot on my snow leopard partition as usual but the grey screen with an apple and the loading icon didn't disapered. I tried to boot on my bootcamp partition, it worked very well.
    After a quick look on some forums, i tried to reset the PRAM (alt+cmd+p+r i think) and i tried to reinstall snow leopard by booting on the instalation cd. The instalation failed (it just freezed at 41 minutes left) so i restarted my MBP and now, the "hard drive utiliy program" tells me that the partition is damaged.
    I've just made an "image" of my disk on my external drive but it is also damaged...
    Does anybody know how i could save all my documents before reseting all my snow leopard partition?
    Thanks!!

    Hi Goeland,
    If you can't boot into Snow Leopard there's limited options:
    Run Disk Repair from Disk Utility (when booted off the OS installation media)
    Remove the HD from the computer and mount it externally (on another computer) using a USB enclosure or SATA drive dock/sled.
    Attempt to mount the drive using Target Disk Mode over FireWire with another Mac that has FireWire and extract the content on the drive
    Run a 3rd party utility like Drive Genius or Disk Warrior and attempt to "repair" the existing file/folder tree structure that appears to have been corrupted.

  • How to make an OS X Snow Leopard partition in OS X Lion??

    He folks,
    I'm a big fan of SimCity4. Since I updated to Lion I can't play Simcity 4 anymore, because SC4 is a PPC app which Lion no longer support.
    That's why I want to make a Snow Leopard partition. But how do I do this?
    I've already made a partition of 40GB, but how do I install Snow Leopard on that partition?
    When I restart my macbook, whilst holding the Option key, I get an screen with the bootable drivers. But no 'Snow Leopard partition'.
    What am I doing wrong? Or what am I missing?
    Please help me?!
    Greetz

    Exactly which model is your MBP? I found two different 8,1 on this site:
    http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.7- 13-early-2011-unibody-thunderbolt-specs.html
    Above originally came with 10.6
    http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.8- 13-late-2011-unibody-thunderbolt-specs.html
    Above came with Lion; if that one is yours, you cannot use SL on it.
    Edit: we obviously cross posted - disregard my post since you have SL disks.

  • HT3805 How do I restore Vault created under Snow leopard to new IMac with Maverick 10.9.2

    Purchased a new IMac with OS 10.9.2
    trying to restore an Aperture Vault (created by snow leopard) I get error message that Vault could not be restored because it was created by older OS.
    Is there a fix for this or do I kiss my 4k pics goodbye - I hope this isn't the case.

    Purchased a new IMac with OS 10.9.2
    trying to restore an Aperture Vault (created by snow leopard) I get error message that Vault could not be restored because it was created by older OS.
    What exactly is the error message? The operating system version should not matter, when restoring from a vault. What however will matter, are the version of Aperture and the file system of the disk with the vault.  Is your vault on an external drive? If yes, how is the drive formatted?  If the vault is not on a drive formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled), move it to a disk with the correct formatting and try again.
    And what version of Aperture created your vault? With SnowLeopard you probably used an older Aperture version. Then your vault needs to be upgraded to a newer Aperture version, before you can restore from it. Do you still have a version of Aperture installed, that is the same version as your vault? Was it an Aperture 3 version?
    If your vault is an Aperture 3 vault, try to open it as an Aperture library instead of restoring it.
    - a quick and dirty emergency measure: Try to open your vault directly on the drive where it is now without restoring it. Make a backup copy of your vault, before you try it.
    Change the filename extension of your vault to ".aplibrary", this will turn the vault into an Aperture library and try to open it directly in Aperture by double clicking it.
    Aperture will now try to open the vault as the current Aperture library and upgrade it.
    “Aperture Vault” was created by an older version of Aperture, and cannot be restored by this version.

  • Unable to unlock encrypted disk images created with Snow Leopard using Lion

    Anyone else unable to unlock encrypted disk images created with Leopard and Snow Leopard with Lion?  I know that they made changes with the release of FileVault 2 on Lion and Snow Leopard cannot use Lion encrypted disks but I thought it was backwards compatible where Lion should still be able to work with Snow Leopard created images (it was in the pre-release versions of Lion).
    When attempting to mount an encrypted disk image created with Snow Leopard on Lion the normal password prompt appears but then just reappears every time the password is entered and does not unlock and mount the image.  I'm positive the correct password is being entered and it works just fine when done on a machine running Snow Leopard.

    Not in cases when the computer successfully boots to one OS but produces three beeps when an attempt is made to boot it to another. If it really was a RAM problem that serious, the computer wouldn't get as far as checking the OS version, and it has no problems booting Lion. In the event of a minor RAM problem, it wouldn't produce three beeps like that at all.
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  • How do I create a bootable Snow Leopard partition on my iMac running Lion?

    Hi.
    I have recently bought an iMac running Lion.  I also have software such as Office 2004 and CS2 which I believe I can run using Rosetta, however I think I need Snow Leopard for this.  If I purchase Snow Leopard from the Online Store, how do I install this 2nd OS within another partition on my iMac (yet to be created) and how do I switch between Snow Leopard and Lion on start up?  Will my Lion software and data remain intact as I don't have any Lion disks should I need to reload this?  Can anyone help with a step-by-step instructions as I'm not incredibly confident with the repartitioning of my nice new iMac?

    To resize the drive do the following:
    1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
    After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
    2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
    3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed.  (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
    4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
    You should now have a new volume on the drive.
    It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss.  Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
    Boot From The Snow Leopard Installer Disc and Install:
    Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
    Restart the computer.
    Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
    Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo appears.
    Wait for installer to finish loading.
    Install Snow Leopard on the newly created partition.

  • Is there any way to make a snow leopard partition on an early 2011 MacBook Pro that was upgraded to Lion, without the original boot disk?

    So I have an early 2011 MacBook pro,  I believe it shipped with snow leopard originally, as I purchased and upgraded to Lion fairly early on.  I am trying to make a partition right now and have it run snow leopard so I can use programs that have PowerPC.
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    Also I should note I replaced my harddrive.  I went from what ever the standard 500 GB harddrive that shipped with 15 inch early 2011 MB pro's.  I now have a 3rd party SSD that's 240GB's that I also installed on my own, (at the same time as the RAM---Black friday items)  The harddrive has been working just fine since then.
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    I know this issue has been posted elsewere but it said answered and the answer is no longer available.  I also am unsure if any of the RAM or Harddrive swapping could have been causing the issue.  I have the old harddrive and RAM still, but unfortunatley have no external harddrive anymore or money to afford one.
    Is there any way I can install a partition that runs snow leopard on my early 2011 MB pro with what I have (new SSD, New RAM, Current version Lion running, no external drive, lack of original snow leopard disks [I lost them ] and the general 10.6.3 snow leopard boot disks).
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    sorry for the long drawn out post, I just wanted to include as much as possible from what I've seen other people have issues with

    BrettGoudy wrote:
    ...Is there any way I can install a partition that runs snow leopard on my early 2011 MB pro with what I have (new SSD, New RAM, Current version Lion running, no external drive, lack of original snow leopard disks [I lost them ] and the general 10.6.3 snow leopard boot disks)...
    As the last post suggests, call Apple and order a replacement original disc for about $17.  They will ask you the model and serial numbers.
    Your retail version of Snow Leopard OS 10.6.3 will not work on that Mac as it requires a minimum of OS X 10.6.7 to boot and operate.
    Another alternative is to again borrow another Mac to install your retail Snow Leopard into an external HD or partition, upgrade it to 10.6.8 and then clone it back to a partition on your MBP.

  • Trackpad inoperative in Snow Leopard partition

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  • Trying to Instal Snow Leopard partition on Lion

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    Yes, I created a separate partition for this purpose.  I've tried to instal Leopard and failed.  Then Snow Leopard and failed again.  I thought all I had to do was press "C" on the keyboard at start up and it would boot off of the instal DVD.  All it ended up doing was beeping.
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  • Zip file created in Snow Leopard can't be opened on a PC

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    All clients, or some clients? How big are the zip files?
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    sdl3 wrote:
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