Partition of hard drive to run 10.7 on one and 10.10 on the other

Anyone know if I can partition my hard drive on my MacBook to run OS 10.7 on one and
OS 10.10 on the other?
The reason is that I have business programs that will not run on the latest version
without an expensive upgrade.
And one program is not written yet for the upgraded OS.

If that's true, then do not disturb the 10.7 partition. Instead you want to divide it to create space for another partition. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder. You will see two entries in the sidebar list - an outdented one and an indented one. The latter is your Lion volume. But you need to select the outdented entry then click on the Partition tab in Disk Utility's main window. You should now see a partition map. Part of the map is blue (this is the used part) and part is white (this is the free space.) At the bottom you will see two buttons. Click the Add [+] button. Disk Utility will divide your disk space in half if it can. You must then select the lower rectangle and re-size it to what you want to allocate to Yosemite. I suggest it be no smaller than 50 GBs. Leave the upper portion for your Lion installation. However, be sure you are not over-writing an of the blue part in the partition map or you will lose data. Last click on the Apply button and wait. It may take a while for the process to complete so be patient.
When it's done you can now install Yosemite on the new partition. If you have the Yosemite installer then when you run it be sure to change the target drive to the Yosemite partition on your drive so it doesn't overwrite the Lion partition.

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Hi, I have macbook Pro, running Leopard OS X. I partitioned my hard drive a while ago to install windows and only allowed myself 10 Gig of data. I deleted windows after i realised i wasnt enjoying using it at all and wasted my hard drive. I now decided that i want another OSX on there instead yet i have only allowed myself 10 gb on the partition. I have ben thru some programms but am struggling on making this partition bigger.
I only want it at 20gb but cant seem to make the partition bigger, only smaller or split it into further partition.
Is there a way to do this, i have all installation discs from original OSX so think this could help.
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Thanks Chris

Hi, dragging the partition will only make smaller, not larger. In disk utility you can only split or make smaller the partitions. Yes i booted from installation disks also but still no help.
And Brody, I am willing to erase the disc completely, infact jus started doing a backup in order to do so but that failed also. And the information you gave on partition a hard drive, Although very simple and i already know how to do this, but it wont let me make the partition bigger, and i dont want to make a new partition, just enlarge the one i already have, which i dont see possible from disk utility.
Getting really frustrated now, even backing up is saying no to me. **** external being a douche.
I dont mind erasing the hard drive but surely this must be doable without deleting the secondary partition back t a single volume, and re partitioning into 2 volumes again.
Thanks again

I am running Snow Leopard on my iMac and have partitioned my hard drive to run Windows XP. If I upgrade to Yosemite, will I still be able to run XP?

I am running Snow Leopard on my iMac and have partitioned my hard drive to run Windows XP. If I upgrade to Yosemite, will I still be able to run XP?

bobfromnorth battleford wrote:
...Now what happens if I upgrade to Yosemite on either my iMac or my MBPro?
If I install VM Fusion or Parallels, does Windows run all the time? How does that affect computer performance? and how much do I need to worry about hard drive corruption?
Current versions of Fusion and Parallels are compatible with Yosemite. Both are applications which you only run when you want to run Windows within them. As such, there's no effect on computer performance when they're not in use. Like any other software, there is some additional load on your Mac when both Windows and the Mac OS are running together, but any noticeable effect depends on what each is being expected to do and what resources (e.g. available RAM and the number of CPU cores) you can devote to each.
I think there's less chance of HD corruption with a VM than there is with running Windows natively on the Mac in Boot Camp. Consider that, with a VM, you can create Snapshots of the state of your VM at a given time, and then, if something goes wrong (virus, malware, software installations), you can simply restore the Snapshot in a matter of seconds and eliminate the problems in the process. Moreover you can make a backup copy of the entire VM file, and replace a later version if you wish. Also consider that you can assign, say, 100GB of HD space to the VM, but the actual space devoted to the VM is only what's actually used; as more is needed, more is made available and Windows can't tell the difference. So, for example, my Win 7 Pro VM has an 80 GB virtual HD but only takes up 45 GB on my SSD, and that's with XP Mode in VPC installed inside it.
Microsoft no longer supports XP, though virus signature updates are still being issued. But MS has installed a pop-up message about EOL that won't go away (it's installed with KB2934207). Even if you remove that KB in Add and Remove Software, the pop-up continues. But if you have a Snapshot or a backup which is prior to it's original installation, you can skip installing KB2934207, and suppress it's reappearance on a Software Update list.

If i install microsoft office after partitioning my hard drive for windows, will it be available on both sides of the partition?

If i install microsoft office after partitioning my hard drive for windows, will it be available on both sides of the partition? Will it be universal for the computer or would i have to install it on both operating systems? Or, if I install office BEFORE partitioning, will it be available on both platforms after i partition?

If I understand your questions correctly, then I'm inclined to say no. Office for Windows and Office for Mac are two completely different applications. if you run via BootCamp, only one partition will boot.
If you want to run Mac and Windows at the same time, you could do what I did:
Get Parallels
Install Windows as VM on top of Parallels
Install Office in Windows
Now, you can run your OS X, jump into Parallels' WIndows and use Office that way.
It needs a lot of RAM, 4 is a bare minimum to realy make it sensible, 8 wouldn't hurt.

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Hello to everyone! I'm thinking on getting a new Mac pro 2.66 GHz and they come with 10.4.7, does anybody know if I can partition the internal drive to install 10.3.9 on one and keep 10.4.7 on the other? or even if i can just order it with 2 drives and installed 10.3.9 on the second and go back and forth on the star up disk between the 2?

Hi orate;
May I welcome you to the Apple Discussion Forums.
Why do you want to boot to 10.3.9?
As Ned stated you can't do that with a Mac Pro. The difference in the hardware of the Mac Pro will prevent you from being able to do.
I was wondering why you wanted to do this because we might be able to come up with a different solution for you is you will share the original problem with us.
Allan

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*[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders]
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Read more:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
*[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data Profiles]
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*[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them#w_backup-and-restore Backup and restore]
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarkbackups_folder
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Backing_up_and_restoring_bookmarks_-_Firefox

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You stated; "I increased my hard drive RAM"
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Allan

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Yes.
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What a great reply! Thanks very much!!!
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A question on sending: I really like to "QUEUE" my messages in Eudora, then send, say 5-10 all at once. Is that possible with Mail?
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Hi ancelau,
QuarkXPress 3 is a Classic Mac OS application, so you need a version of OS X that still supports Classic. I believe 10.4 was the last one.
So if you have an iMac that boots with 10.4, then yes that is possible. I doubt though that newer Macs boot with OS X 10.4.
So why don't you upgrade QuarkXPress 3 to a newer version? I am not just asking that because I want you to spend money with us.
Typically using software that was released almost 20 years ago is just feasible when you keep an environment that was current at the time of release or a few years after, so an older Mac with a operating system present at that time. 20 years in IT is a lot.
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Can I partition my Mac hard drive to run two different Mac OS?

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Yes it is possible... here's a link with instructions on how to do it. Cheers.

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