Restoring to a one partition drive after mistake of making a free space partition
Anyone know how to retore your os x to one partiton after making a mistake of making a free space partition in disk utlilty? I tried to revert back to original in disk utility and it won't let me. When I tried to partition inside the free space, It just did nothing, and when I tried to exit out of disk utility, it said their where unsaved partitions. And it won't SAVE! The free space that i'm trying to get back would really help as I am a little low on disk space. I'm on a late 2012 macbook pro retina display 13 inch running OS X Mavericks 10.9.2. Feedback would be excellent. Thx!
Bottom part that is bordered with blue is what I want to get rid of.
Willio_A,
if no diagonal lines appear in the lower-right corner of the “OS X Mavericks” partition when you’d clicked on it, then alternatively you could just quit out of Disk Utility and not save any changes that you’d made during your session. Or are there partition changes that you’d made in Disk Utility which you are trying to save?
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Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
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Hi. My iMac hard drive is running Mavericks. I have an old version of Quark Xpress (3.32) which won't run in Mavericks. Can I partition my hard drive and run an older system on one partition, so I can access my Quark? Is that possible?
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.
So my opinion is that on a new Mac with a brand new operating system you need to use something a bit more current.
How about QuarkXPress 9 (released 3 years ago) or QuarkXPress 10? You are better off with v9, as QuarkXPress 10 only opens v7 and higher (whereas QuarkXPress 9 opens v3.1 and higher).
Or - I am even happy to make an exception - upgrade to 9 and we give you 10 for free? Let me know please.
Thanks
Matthias
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