Need to repartition...
Once upon a time I thought it was a good idea to partition the drive in this PPC iMac into a couple pieces. Now I want to undo this and make one big partition.
It would be great if I could just resize the startup partition, but I guess you can only make them smaller. So... I have TM running on a 500G drive and I've cleaned out my second partition, I've also got a CCC clone on a separate TB drive... but I'm not sure I did it right. I was looking ahead to putting TM from other Intel Mac's on that drive so I partitioned it with GUID. Now (I think) I can't boot from the CCC Clone on that drive. Should I start over... partition that with and Apple Partition Map and then I could boot from there.
Or is there an easier way?
Oh... I suppose I could reinstall the OS from DVD and let TM redo the machine? Which is better and why?
If I understand you correctly, and a couple of assumptions are also correct, it may be very easy.
Open Disk Utility, select the top line of the drive (with the make and size), and click the Partition tab.
Is your boot (OSX) volume on top?
And you don't need anything in the "other" partition, that's below the OSX volume?
If so, all you need to do is select the "other" partition. It will be outlined in blue. Click the minus sign at the bottom to delete it, then Apply and confirm.
Once that's done, just pull the lower-right corner of the OSX partition all the way to the bottom, click Apply, and confirm.
See #4 in Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks.
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Need to repartition to install Lion?
When I am propmted to select the disk to install Lion on, my startup disk has a message This Disk doesn't use the GUID Partition Table Scheme...
What? I need to repartition my mac to install Lion? I have lost my systems disk so now I am screwed? ***, does that mean I will also have to reinstall all of my existing applications if I figure out how to repartition my drive? Can I easily restore the apps, with all supporting files from my existing TimeMachine backup? This really has me upset, as I didn't see any mention of this on the Lion page on the Apple Web site, nor did I see it mentioned in the App store before buyingI ran Disk Utility Verify and found there where some errors to correct, so I did a repair. After the repair was successful I tried to install Lion again. Once again it's telling me to repartition my hard drive.
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
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Upgrade to Leopard and Needing to RePartition
I have Leopard on the way and when I upgrade I need to break down my old windows XP partition on the beta-boot camp and repartition it for more space (I currently do not have enough on the Windows side).
I do not want to make any mistakes so as to destroy any info on my mac side or to cause more issues of any sort that would give me more work to do.
How would I go about simply breaking the old one down and then repartitioning and should I do it before or after upgrading to leopard?
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Need to repartition HDD. No DVD drive available - what now?
Hi. I posted this question here (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10691580#10691580), but was requested to start a new thread...
An Apple Authorized Repair facility installed my new drive yesterday. They were supposed to create 2 partitions for me, but failed to do so. Instead, they just cloned my old hard drive over to the new one. This really ***, because Spotlight and System Profiler say that my disk capacity is only 200GB and available disk space 40GB (same as original drive).
What do I need to do to create 2 partitions, one with FAT32 that is 25GB (for both Windows and Chrome OS/Ubuntu) and the other 615GB partition for OS X 10.6?
The important caveat is that my Samsung Superdrive is dysfunctional, as discussed in this long thread.
When I now try to use Disk Utility to Partition the drive, I get the error:
"PARTION FAILED Partition failed with the error: Could not modify partition map because filesystem verification failed"
And when I try to use Bootcamp Assistant to partition the drive, I get this error:
"THE DISK CANNOT BE PARTITIONED BECAUSE SOME FILES CANNOT BE MOVED. Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
Does this mean that Apple Computer has totally screwed me over? First they gave me a faulty Super drive, and then they install a hard drive without properly formatting the partition? What should I do now?Got my MBP back again today. As described here, I have a new Matshita Superdrive and it works perfectly. Mac Gallery (the Apple Authorized Repair facility) also created the 25GB FAT partition I requested. However, they did not address the 640 GB HDD only reflecting the 200GB cloned old HDD size. I need to leave for 6 months tomorrow morning at 6am, so I need to trouble/shoot this on my own now
Following advice from Pondini, I went into Disk Utility. When I attempt to do a repair disk, I received the following error message:
{quote:title=Disk Utility stopped verifying "Macintosh HD"}{quote}
This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
and then the following details are returned:
Verify Disk error:
Verifying volume "Macintosh HD"
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid key length
The volume could not be verified completely.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
Verifying volume "Untitled 2"
The volume Untitled 2 appears to be OK
Booting into safe mode didn't solve the Verify Disk problem, as recommended in the Apple support article.
Now that my Superdrive is working, I did a boot from the OS X Install DVD by pressing C during restart. From there, I clicked on Utilities menu from above, when the "Install Mac OS X Select the disk where you want to install Mac OS X" HDD selection GUI. Both HDD partitions had yellow exclamation marks on them and the size was wrong.
Opening Disk Utility, I did a Verify Disk and got through the steps where I was told that the disk should be repaired, but when I clicked on repair disk, I was informed that "Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files."
Good thing I insisted on getting my original HDD back! Mac Gallery assumed I didn't want it and didn't give it back to me (don't know what plans they had for it!).
So, I am out another several hours of formatting, partitioning, re-installs, etc.
Anything in particular I need to heed as I proceed?
Thanks for the tip Pondini! -
I need to get rid of my Ex girlfriends user id, so i can download updates
On my Macbook i am trying to do system updates but when i press update the pop up automatically comes up with my exgirlfriends user id (email) but it wont let me change it to mine. How can i get hers removed?
You don't say who actually owns the OS and other software, as these are not necessarily transferrable. I have these rather long instructions for selling a mac, which may be applicable here too. Please excuse their length...
Mac - Selling A
Internet Recovery, and Transferability of OS & iLife Apps
Selling an Old Mac:
• When selling an old Mac, the only OS that is legally transferable is the one that came preinstalled when the Mac was new. Selling a Mac with an upgraded OS isn't doing the new owner any favors. Attempting to do so will only result in headaches since the upgraded OS can't be registered by the new owner. If a clean install becomes necessary, they won't be able to do so and will be forced to install the original OS via Internet Recovery. Best to simply erase the drive and revert back to the original OS prior to selling any Mac.
• Additionally, upgrading the OS on a Mac you intend to sell means that you are leaving personally identifiable information on the Mac since the only way to upgrade the OS involves using your own AppleID to download the upgrade from the App Store. So there will be traces of your info and user account left behind. Again, best to erase the drive and revert to the original OS via Internet Recovery.
Internet Recovery:
• In the event that the OS has been upgraded to a newer version (i.e. Lion to Mountain Lion), Internet Recovery will offer the version of the OS that originally came with the Mac. So while booting to the Recovery Disk will show Mountain Lion as available for reinstall since that is the current version running, Internet Recovery, on the other hand, will only show Lion available since that was the OS shipped with that particular Mac.
• Though the Mac came with a particular version of Mac OS X, it appears that, when Internet Recovery is invoked, the most recent update of that version may be applied. (i.e. if the Mac originally came with 10.7.3, Internet Recovery may install a more recent update like 10.7.5)
iLife Apps:
• When the App Store is launched for the first time it will report that the iLife apps are available for the user to Accept under the Purchases section. The user will be required to enter their AppleID during the Acceptance process. From that point on the iLife apps will be tied to the AppleID used to Accept them. The user will be allowed to download the apps to other Macs they own if they wish using the same AppleID used to Accept them.
• Once Accepted on the new Mac, the iLife apps can not be transferred to any future owner when the Mac is sold. Attempting to use an AppleID after the apps have already been accepted using a different AppleID will result in the App Store reporting "These apps were already assigned to another Apple ID".
• It appears, however, that the iLife Apps do not automatically go to the first owner of the Mac. It's quite possible that the original owner, either by choice or neglect, never Accepted the iLife apps in the App Store. As a result, a future owner of the Mac may be able to successfully Accept the apps and retain them for themselves using their own AppleID. Bottom Line: Whoever Accepts the iLife apps first gets to keep them.
Mac - Selling B
Perhaps you may wish to use my tip for selling a Mac:
Follow these instructions step by step to prepare a Mac for sale:
Step One - Back up your data:
A. If you have any Virtual PCs shut them down. They cannot be in their "fast saved" state. They must be shut down from inside Windows.
B. Clone to an external drive using using Carbon Copy Cloner.
1. Open Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Select the Source volume from the Select a source drop down menu on the left side.
3. Select the Destination volume from the Select a destination drop down menu on the right
side.
4. Click on the Clone button. If you are prompted about creating a clone of the Recovery HD be
sure to opt for that.
Destination means a freshly erased external backup drive. Source means the internal
startup drive.
Step Two - Prepare the machine for the new buyer:
1. De-authorize the computer in iTunes! De-authorize both iTunes and Audible accounts.
2, Remove any Open Firmware passwords or Firmware passwords.
3. Turn the brightness full up and volume nearly so.
4. Turn off File Vault, if enabled.
5. Disable iCloud, if enabled: See.What to do with iCloud before selling your computer
Step Three - Install a fresh OS:
A. Snow Leopard and earlier versions of OS X
1. Insert the original OS X install CD/DVD that came with your computer.
2. Restart the computer while holding down the C key to boot from the CD/DVD.
3. Select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu; repartition and reformat the internal hard drive.
Optionally, click on the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
4. Install OS X.
5. Upon completion DO NOT restart the computer.
6. Shutdown the computer.
B. Lion and Mountain Lion (if pre-installed on the computer at purchase*)
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because
it is three times faster than wireless.
1. Restart the computer while holding down the COMMAND and R keys until the Mac OS X
Utilities window appears.
2. Select Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Utilities window and click on the Continue button.
3. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click
on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
4. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on the Security button
and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
5. Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
6. Quit DU and return to the Mac OS X Utilities window.
7. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
8. Upon completion shutdown the computer.
*If your computer came with Lion or Mountain Lion pre-installed then you are entitled to transfer your license once. If you purchased Lion or Mountain Lion from the App Store then you cannot transfer your license to another party. In the case of the latter you should install the original version of OS X that came with your computer. You need to repartition the hard drive as well as reformat it; this will assure that the Recovery HD partition is removed. See Step Three above. You may verify these requirements by reviewing your OS X Software License.
Note also, that if the system belongs to your ex-partner, she should go to the AppleID site and de-register the computer from her name there too. -
Do we need to split up windows ( xp ) on a mac pro ?
Bonjour,
Do i need to split up windows on my mac pro ? ( "défragmenter" in french)
XP is on my first drive on a part of 120 Gb. I use boot camp.
Tank you.Contrary to other comment,
You do not need to repartition your boot drive on a Mac Pro in order to install Windows.
You can format and install a Windows BootCamp partition on any internal drive, not just the boot drive.
I prefer not to put both on the same drive (safer, better performance for Windows).
There is a pdf manual that is part of BootCamp on Leopard or when it was downloaded off Apple in the past before it expired and was pulled. There is also the option to save instructions in the BootCamp Assistant Utility when you launch it.
The only reason to defrag is to consolidate free space, in case there is not enough free contiguous space in order to re-partition and create a 2nd partition out of the available space which can and usually is very FRAGMENTED.
The ideal (and actually quicker 99% is to backup the drive, erase, and restore and then run BootCamp again and try to partition it again...
... if I am understanding what you want to do and were asking about. -
Repartition disk and reimport the whole system
Hi everyone,
I have a working Arch Install and I love it. The only problem is that I need to repartition my HDD. The partition scheme is just slightly different. One partition that is now logical will be primary and most partitions (except one) will be slightly larger but that's it.
Meanwhile I need to reinstall Windows (I have a dual boot), then "copy/paste" my whole Arch system back and reinstall GRUB. For now I can think of a few problems.
1) If I reinstall GRUB from a live CD (would it work with Arch's install CD ?), will pacman still handle updates for it ?
2a) A friend advised me to use rsync to copy ALL of my system to an external HDD (I have JFS and ext2/3 partitions) and then use rsync again to recover my system (I was thinking of using a JFS external hard drive). Is it a good idea ? Will this keep all the needed metadata (privileges and such) ? Will it preserve symlinks ? hardlinks ?
2b) Is rsyncing really better than just copy-pasting all files ?
3) I guess I'll have to change my /etc/fstab once I have repartitioned, are there any other files to edit when I have my new partition scheme ?
4) How can I check that nothing has been broken/corrupted in the process ?
Are there "better"/alternative ways to do what I want (Repartition disk, reinstall Windows and get back my whole Arch system) ? What other problems could I encounter ?
Thank you in advance for your answers and sorry for my English (it is not my first language).yms wrote:1) If I reinstall GRUB from a live CD (would it work with Arch's install CD ?), will pacman still handle updates for it ?
Should be fine. Grub doesn't change that often, and I don't think I've ever needed to re-do grub-install because of an update.
yms wrote:2a) A friend advised me to use rsync to copy ALL of my system to an external HDD (I have JFS and ext2/3 partitions) and then use rsync again to recover my system (I was thinking of using a JFS external hard drive). Is it a good idea ? Will this keep all the needed metadata (privileges and such) ? Will it preserve symlinks ? hardlinks ?
Yes, yes, and yes. However, so will cp -a. If you're just using an external drive attached to your local system to do this, cp -a should be fine.
yms wrote:2b) Is rsyncing really better than just copy-pasting all files ?
If you're copying to a separate machine over a network, I prefer rsync. It's easier than net-mounting the target drive and then copying to it, and network filesystems have a way of sometimes mangling ownership & permissions, depending what your setup is. This doesn't apply in your case though.
One caution about just copy&pasting your filesystem (not sure if this still applies with current udev, actually) -- you can't boot with a totally empty /dev. Copying all of the device entries from a booted, mounted /dev/ into your backup and then copying them back works fine, but it's probably better to do this:
mount -o bind / /mnt/temp-root
cp -a /mnt/temp-root/dev /your-backup-root/dev
umount /mnt/temp-root
That'll give you the device entries that are actually in your root filesystem's /dev, before /dev gets mounted on top of it.
yms wrote:3) I guess I'll have to change my /etc/fstab once I have repartitioned, are there any other files to edit when I have my new partition scheme ?
crypttab, if you have any encrypted partitions. /etc/suspend.conf if you're using userspace suspend (it'll need to know the new swap partition to resume from after s2disk). mdadm.conf if you have software RAID and are using that. Likewise for stuff in /etc/lvm (possibly).
yms wrote:4) How can I check that nothing has been broken/corrupted in the process ?
On your current system:
find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum >> /big-file-checksum-list
When you've got everything copied back:
find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum >> /big-file-checksum-list2
Then sort those two files and compare them.
yms wrote:Are there "better"/alternative ways to do what I want (Repartition disk, reinstall Windows and get back my whole Arch system) ? What other problems could I encounter ?
Some things I ran into while installing Windows 7:
- Win7 has a separate 100MB boot partition. As far as I know, it's not easy to pick an existing partition and tell it, "this is your boot partition." I just let the installer create it for me.
- Win7 does not obey some partition table conventions -- I can't edit my partition table with cfdisk because Windows 7 apparently got some disk geometry slightly wrong (You know that 8mb of free space that XP & NT used to leave at the end of disks? I don't think they've fixed that yet). fdisk, parted, and sfdisk are all OK though.
Edit: one of the Win7 problems turned out to be something else; removed it.
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I am selling my 2013 MacBook Air and i need to figure out how to wipe all my information from the computer before selling it.
Any help will be appreciated, im ready to slam this computer through a wall.Follow these instructions step by step to prepare a Mac for sale:
Step One - Back up your data:
A. If you have any Virtual PCs shut them down. They cannot be in their "fast saved" state. They must be shut down from inside Windows.
B. Clone to an external drive using using Carbon Copy Cloner.
1. Open Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Select the Source volume from the Select a source drop down menu on the left side.
3. Select the Destination volume from the Select a destination drop down menu on the right
side.
4. Click on the Clone button. If you are prompted about creating a clone of the Recovery HD be
sure to opt for that.
Destination means a freshly erased external backup drive. Source means the internal
startup drive.
Step Two - Prepare the machine for the new buyer:
1. De-authorize the computer in iTunes! De-authorize both iTunes and Audible accounts.
2, Remove any Open Firmware passwords or Firmware passwords.
3. Turn the brightness full up and volume nearly so.
4. Turn off File Vault, if enabled.
5. Disable iCloud, if enabled: See.What to do with iCloud before selling your computer
Step Three - Install a fresh OS:
A. Snow Leopard and earlier versions of OS X
1. Insert the original OS X install CD/DVD that came with your computer.
2. Restart the computer while holding down the C key to boot from the CD/DVD.
3. Select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu; repartition and reformat the internal hard drive.
Optionally, click on the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
4. Install OS X.
5. Upon completion DO NOT restart the computer.
6. Shutdown the computer.
B. Lion and Mountain Lion (if pre-installed on the computer at purchase*)
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because
it is three times faster than wireless.
1. Restart the computer while holding down the COMMAND and R keys until the Mac OS X
Utilities window appears.
2. Select Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Utilities window and click on the Continue button.
3. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click
on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
4. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on the Security button
and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
5. Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
6. Quit DU and return to the Mac OS X Utilities window.
7. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
8. Upon completion shutdown the computer.
*If your computer came with Lion or Mountain Lion pre-installed then you are entitled to transfer your license once. If you purchased Lion or Mountain Lion from the App Store then you cannot transfer your license to another party. In the case of the latter you should install the original version of OS X that came with your computer. You need to repartition the hard drive as well as reformat it; this will assure that the Recovery HD partition is removed. See Step Three above. You may verify these requirements by reviewing your OS X Software License. -
Need Help using One-Key to make a system back up to DVDs
I bought U330 in Sept and now that I have some of my own programs installed and running, I want to make a backup to D (I think?) and also make backups to DVDs so I could make backups.
I'm no novice, but I cannot figure out the instructions for this.
When I pick Backup, even at Max compression, it says I don't have enough space. I don't have THAT much on D:---did I need to repartition this before I even started using this computer? Does this mean I can never use One-Key?
When I pick Create Recover Disc (to make DVD backups), what do I do next?
The dropdown for "Select Source From" has only two options, I am guessing I have to pick "Select another image", but then I don't know what to pick for the Image path. How do I pick the whole C drive ??? Or??
Please tell me exactly how to do this because I am finding LENOVO's instructions totally inadequate.
A couple times I got to the DVD burner--not sure how--but then it just wanted to burn the sample music files. I'm feeling quite frustrated--this should not be this difficult!!I thought you've got error of another type - that error is fixed by simple software update.
Regarding your case - it's always frightening in first time. Believe me - there's completely nothing to be afraid of.
Resizing C drive may result killing your DATA on it only in case of energy is down during the process. Process is taking about 15-20 minutes on slow programs and about 3-4 minutes on fast programs. That means that even having problems with electricity you'll be able to finish everything correctly running on battery.
I'd recommend using Acronis Disk director Suite, but it is not free. One of the best free progs for that are bootable Linux livecds PartedMagic and GParted. They're all intuitive understandable.
You will get your NOVO recovery feature lost after C resize, but you can enable it later, replacing that factory backup in hidden partition with your own backup - your NOVO button will restore your system with all your software and settings.
it will be good for you to start with some basic principles on partitions organization schemes - why, what for and how questions are briefly explained here. After reading this you'll be able to ask right questions to get right answers.
//help will save the world -
I need help with doing a system wipe/re-install
I want to completely wipe my Macbook Pro (running Mountain Lion) and do a OS reinstall so that it is as if it was just taken out of the box. I have already moved files I want to keep over to an external. My question is this, do I need to do anything in regards to Microsoft Office or iTunes? Do I need to deauthorize my iTunes or my Microsoft Office activation code? Also, how do I even go about doing this system reset?
Follow these instructions step by step to prepare a Mac for sale:
Step One - Back up your data:
A. If you have any Virtual PCs shut them down. They cannot be in their "fast saved" state. They must be shut down from inside Windows.
B. Clone to an external drive using using Carbon Copy Cloner.
1. Open Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Select the Source volume from the Select a source drop down menu on the left side.
3. Select the Destination volume from the Select a destination drop down menu on the right
side.
4. Click on the Clone button. If you are prompted about creating a clone of the Recovery HD be
sure to opt for that.
Destination means a freshly erased external backup drive. Source means the internal
startup drive.
Step Two - Prepare the machine for the new buyer:
1. De-authorize the computer in iTunes! De-authorize both iTunes and Audible accounts.
2, Remove any Open Firmware passwords or Firmware passwords.
3. Turn the brightness full up and volume nearly so.
4. Turn off File Vault, if enabled.
5. Disable iCloud, if enabled: See.What to do with iCloud before selling your computer
Step Three - Install a fresh OS:
A. Snow Leopard and earlier versions of OS X
1. Insert the original OS X install CD/DVD that came with your computer.
2. Restart the computer while holding down the C key to boot from the CD/DVD.
3. Select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu; repartition and reformat the internal hard drive.
Optionally, click on the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
4. Install OS X.
5. Upon completion DO NOT restart the computer.
6. Shutdown the computer.
B. Lion and Mountain Lion (if pre-installed on the computer at purchase*)
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because
it is three times faster than wireless.
1. Restart the computer while holding down the COMMAND and R keys until the Mac OS X
Utilities window appears.
2. Select Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Utilities window and click on the Continue button.
3. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click
on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
4. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on the Security button
and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
5. Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
6. Quit DU and return to the Mac OS X Utilities window.
7. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
8. Upon completion shutdown the computer.
*If your computer came with Lion or Mountain Lion pre-installed then you are entitled to transfer your license once. If you purchased Lion or Mountain Lion from the App Store then you cannot transfer your license to another party. In the case of the latter you should install the original version of OS X that came with your computer. You need to repartition the hard drive as well as reformat it; this will assure that the Recovery HD partition is removed. See Step Three above. You may verify these requirements by reviewing your OS X Software License. -
Problem installing OS 10.3.2 on G3
I am having trouble installing Panther on my G-3 "Blue & White". It is now running OS 9.1. When I try to install, I get an error message. It says that Startup Disk is unable to choose the install CD as the boot disk. Can any one help me get around this problem?
Hi marsupial2,
The machine will not boot up in OS X after the install from disk 1. <</div>
Are you still able to boot from your OS 9 hard drive and if so is the monitor working ok when booting from OS 9? Also, can you still boot from the OS X CD, without doing anything yet, just seeing if that disk can boot, and than quitting it?
I've tried booting up in OS 9 from the SCSI drive and repartitioning the ATA drive. I'm going to try the installation again. <</div>
Have you backed up your data on your drive? If you repartition the drive you will lose all your data on it.
Below is some info on reformatting and partitioning a drive for OS X, but before you do anything below, you may like to see if someone with more info chimes in. Since my install of OS X went very snoothly.
If you are ok with repartitioning that drive and deleting the data on the drive, it may be best to boot from the OS X disk and repartitioning with the OS X disk. That way you can format the drive in "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) for the partitions you plan on putting OS X on, and for the OS 9 partitions, if you are putting any on that drive, Mac OS Extended (HFS+).
However, I don't know if anything needs to be done with that drive before trying to repartitioning it. You may have to do some kind of repair to it or update drivers or something. Hopefully some one here with more info about installs that don't go so smooth can offer more help with this.
It seems that many G3s seem to need to have OS X in the first partition, and the partition should be 8GB in size. <</div>
Yes, I've read this in a number of places. In my case I did not need to do this.
I found this link posted in a thread. It talks a bit about that.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
The thread I found it in was:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3293800�
Note in the thread above, that user had to make that first partition smaller than 8GB.
As far as repartitioning your drive and some install info goes, according to this book, I used when I installed OS X, "Mastering Mac OS X". Third Edition by Todd Stauffer and Kirk McElhearm. (Note: I do not get any money from the sale of this book and am not affiliated with them in anyway. It is a book that happened to be on sale when I was installing OS X so I got it.) Anyway, you may have already done some of this and know some of this, but the book makes the following points:
* Backup anything important from your drive.
* Like Texas Mac Man also posted, make sure you do the firmware update with in OS 9 if needed. I had to do that for my iMac. I was told that if I tried to install OS x or even tried to use an OS X CD without that, it could damage my iMac.
* Check to see if your Mac is one of those Macs that need to have OS X installed on the first 8GBs partition of your HD. If it is you may need to repartition it.
* If you're using a third-party video card you should check with it's maker to see if it supports OS X. You may need to get new drivers for it or you may need to use an Apple video card to use OS X. In my case I did not have to worry about this. If you have a third-party video card, someone else will have to help you with this. I have no idea how to find out which ones will work or where to get drivers.
* If you install OS X on a already partitioned drive with OS 9 on it, update your OS 9 first. Like Frank Henyey posted above. Im my case I have OS 9 on a different partition but I had trouble downloading 9.2.2. I still have 9.1.x on my OS 9 partition.
* Also, if you were installing it on a partition that had OS 9 on it that partition needs to have already been formatted in HFS+ format or you will have to reformat. In my case I was installing it on a new FW HD. So I used the OS X install CD to format the OS X partitions on my drive in Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and the partitions I used for OS 9 in Mac OS Extended (HFS+).
NOTE: Mac OS X can be installed in both HFS+ and Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) formats. I think Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) is for a partition with just OS X on it. You can also install it on a partition with OS 9 if you are upgrading, as long as that partition is (HFS+). This makes it so you don't need to reformat that drive.
* If you have an older Mac, one that can dual-boot, you may wont to have OS 9 on one HD and OS X on the other. You can also have different partitions like this. However; in that thread above they were saying that in some of those Macs that need to have OS X on the first 8GB partition, OS 9 also needs to be on it. But in your case you have two HDs so you maybe able to have OS 9 on one and OS X on the other if you can dual-boot. In my case I can dual-boot. It is nice to be able to boot in OS 9 if I need to.
* You can use the OS X install CD to format and repartition your drive. You use Disk Utility to do so. For the OS X partitions I'd use Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) format and for any OS 9 partitions, Mac OS Extended (HFS+) format.
* IMPORTANT: Before you partition it, make sure you have the, "Install OS 9 Disk Drivers" box checked for your partitions if you want to be able to see your other OS 9 drive or partitions when in OS X.
I hope this helps, and I hope your trouble with this is just a minor bump in the road to the install of OS X.
Joe -
How do I get a portable HD to mount on my MacBook Pro G4?
I recently bought an Iomega eGo USB portable HD, so I could back up my data. The drive is not defective–it works fine on a desktop PC. I plugged it into my USB ports (I had to use both ports, with one extension cable–my ports are on opposite ends of my keyboard) to get enough power. I can hear the drive spinning, but the icon does not show up on the screen. The online manual says to reformat the HD, but I can't do that if the computer can't see it.
Is the solution to buy an auxiliary power source that uses AC power in addition to the USB ports? I can't get the answer at Iomega, because the portable HD was bought on eBay, and Iomega does not cover items bought on an auction site. They don't recognize them as authorized resellers. I found this out just yesterday, as this is not mentioned in any of their literature.Okay i looked them up and YES they are compatible with macs. if it's formatted for windows then no it will not show up on the mac, you need to repartition it on windows or try and see if you can pick it up in Disk Utility on osX. The following link is for this HD but talking about a mac PowerBook, it should be the same for you even if you are using the Intel macs. http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/other-hardware-peripherals/146258-iomega-portab le-hard-drive-not-mounting.html
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I am wanting to give this Macbook Pro to my grandson and I want to restore it to a clean, starting condition for him. How should I proceed?
Follow these instructions step by step to prepare a Mac for sale:
Step One - Back up your data:
A. If you have any Virtual PCs shut them down. They cannot be in their "fast saved" state. They must be shut down from inside Windows.
B. Clone to an external drive using using Carbon Copy Cloner.
1. Open Carbon Copy Cloner.
2. Select the Source volume from the Select a source drop down menu on the left side.
3. Select the Destination volume from the Select a destination drop down menu on the right
side.
4. Click on the Clone button. If you are prompted about creating a clone of the Recovery HD be
sure to opt for that.
Destination means a freshly erased external backup drive. Source means the internal
startup drive.
Step Two - Prepare the machine for the new buyer:
1. De-authorize the computer in iTunes! De-authorize both iTunes and Audible accounts.
2, Remove any Open Firmware passwords or Firmware passwords.
3. Turn the brightness full up and volume nearly so.
4. Turn off File Vault, if enabled.
5. Disable iCloud, if enabled: See.What to do with iCloud before selling your computer
Step Three - Install a fresh OS:
A. Snow Leopard and earlier versions of OS X
1. Insert the original OS X install CD/DVD that came with your computer.
2. Restart the computer while holding down the C key to boot from the CD/DVD.
3. Select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu; repartition and reformat the internal hard drive.
Optionally, click on the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
4. Install OS X.
5. Upon completion DO NOT restart the computer.
6. Shutdown the computer.
B. Lion and Mountain Lion (if pre-installed on the computer at purchase*)
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because
it is three times faster than wireless.
1. Restart the computer while holding down the COMMAND and R keys until the Mac OS X
Utilities window appears.
2. Select Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Utilities window and click on the Continue button.
3. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click
on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
4. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on the Security button
and set the Zero Data option to one-pass.
5. Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
6. Quit DU and return to the Mac OS X Utilities window.
7. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
8. Upon completion shutdown the computer.
*If your computer came with Lion or Mountain Lion pre-installed then you are entitled to transfer your license once. If you purchased Lion or Mountain Lion from the App Store then you cannot transfer your license to another party. In the case of the latter you should install the original version of OS X that came with your computer. If this is not possible then simply erase the drive. You need to repartition the hard drive as well as reformat it; this will assure that the Recovery HD partition is removed. See Step Three above. You may verify these requirements by reviewing your OS X Software License. -
"GUID partition table scheme" Can't install snow leopard on my mbp.
I have a mbp that is partitioned as half mac, half XP. I put in the snow leopard CD and came up with an error that said I could not istall snow leopard because my partition did not fit the "GUID partition table scheme". I followed the menues to the partition section of the disk utility. From there, I don't know what to do. I can't click on the "options" button to change to the GUILD thing. Do I need to repartition my entire mbp? Will this erase my other partition? And will it delete all my data? Any suggestions on what to do???
GUID partition table (GPT) or map is a set of instructions at the very begining of a storage drive to tell the hardware what partitions and formats are where on the drive.
A Intel Mac now requires a GPT to boot OS X as it uses EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) which is a software firmware in a hidden EFI partition on the boot drive designed originally for copy protection by Intel. EFI loads into memory before OS X does, which can be seen if you have verbose mode activated upon boot time.
Setting up the boot drive with a GUID Partiton table WILL require backing up of all data off the machine and a complete erasure of ALL partitions on the drive, which includes ALL data, programs, operating systems and files not backed up off the machine previously.
Since a partition map is basically road directions, when it's destroyed so does go the partitions.
Also since you will be fresh installing 10.6, your free iLife won't tag along,, however you can erase/install 10.5 first then upgrade to 10.6 (no BootCamp) and that shoudl work.
Unfortunatly Mac's only now support Windows 7 in Bootcamp, however Windows 7 Pro (and above) will run XP programs natively or via free virtual machine XP downloaded from Microsoft, however since it's really not native, 3D games etc likely won't run very well.
If your not familiar or willing to take a chance, then I suggest you have someone else upgrade that machine.
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