Snlow Loepard - Cant Install (Yellow Exclamation) - Solution Found

Hello to all:
Like many other people are having problems installing Snow Leopard because it says something like "Cant install because this is a startup disk...blah..blah... and a yellow exclamation mark appears on your Hard Disk or Partition.
In my case I have a 320Gb HD with 3 Partitions. Partition 1 is my 200Gb Mac-OS bootable partition, my partition 2 is a backup I created of my Partition One in case it fails sometime in the future (40Gb Only), and my Partition 3 was a Windows OS Partition. BTW, my partition 1 had 120Gb Free Space and anyway wasn't unable to install Snow Leopard.
I tried Drive Genius 2, I tried Disk Utility (Repair Permissions, Repair Disk), and nothing Works.
What I did was I use Disk Utility running normally on your booted Mac-OS (Not a bootable DVD), and I repartition my Partition 1 from 200Gb to 180Gb. The process took like 5 minutes. You will not lose nothing it just repartition your HD. After that I ran Snow Leopard from the DVD and fixed the problem.
Now my Partition 1 doesn't has the yellow exclamation and was able to install Snow Leopard. After that you can again use Disk Utility and resize your partition back to your original size without any problems. Please let me know anyone who tried it and works successfully on your systems.

DaddyPayCheck, I agree totally. There are good reasons to use disk partitions, such as Boot camp, but using a separate partition to back up another partition on the same disk is a bad move, especially since disk drives are so cheap.

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