Mac OS X: Mavericks hard drive partion resize?
I had a different partition on my iMac for windows. Since I dont need it anymore I deleted it..
Normaly I can just resize my Macintosh parititon to the full capaticy of my hard drive... since the update I cant.. what now?
Heres a screenshot of my situation: http://puu.sh/5IxTw.png
Michael,
First,Back up all important files.Then...
Run Apple Hardware Test from OS X Install Disk #1.
If it reports any problems,believe it and call AppleCare to have MacBook repaired.
If AHT reports "No problems found",I'd recommend an Erase and Install of OS X.
Let us know the outcome either way.
Jim
PowerBook G3 500 Mhz "Pismo"/ 2.0Ghz BlackBook 2GB OWC RAM Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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and then deleting them off of my computer.
BIG BIG MISTAKE ..... youre making a linchpin deathtrap for your data trying to shove everything on a single fragile HD.
Dont suffer the tragedy other people make, buy another or 2 more HD, theyre cheap as dust.
The number of people who have experienced terror by having a single external HD backup is enormous. One failure that WILL HAPPEN, and kaput,......all gone!
Dont do it, its all about redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
follow here:
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection
Deleting them off your computer is fine....having only ONE copy is extremely BAD.
The Tragedy that will be, the tragedy that never should be
Always presume correctly that your data is priceless and takes a very long time to create and often is irreplaceable. Always presume accurately that hard drives are extremely cheap, and you have no excuse not to have multiple redundant copies of your data copied on hard drives and squirreled away several places, lockboxes, safes, fireboxes, offsite and otherwise.
Hard drives aren't prone to failure…hard drives are guaranteed to fail (the very same is true of SSD). Hard drives dont die when aged, hard drives die at any age, and peak in death when young and slowly increase in risk as they age.
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I have an iMac G4 and a Mac Mini (with Panther on them). The hard drives for these two macs are running out of space due to a large library of music, video, and photo. I am thinking of getting an external hard drive and move all these to there.
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iMac G4, Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.3.9) Mac MiniAn external hard drive can be shared by two computers, but both computers can't be plugged into the hard drive at the exact same moment. However, if you have iTunes or iPhoto running on the one computer with the hard drive, you can share your music and pictures to the other one. You could also turn on File Sharing on the computer with the hard drive and then you could connect to the hard drive across your network to access or share other types of files.
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The error doesn't mean you have name conflicts. It means that the Finder won't take the chance that you might have them.
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About 3 years old...pretty dated now I guess. Am thinking I may just need to have it upgraded by a Mac tech.
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