Un-split the hard drive and re-download Mountain Lion on my second laptop
I have two partitions on the hard drive of my MacBook Air; one has Snow Leopard (Mac OS X, 10.6.8) and the other has Mountain Lion (Mac OS X, 10.8.3). As I start saving more files on my MBA, I start having less free space to work with. When I purchased the Mountain Lion, I didn't purchase the CD version; I downloaded from Apple's site. Now I need to un-split my MacBook Air, keeping the Snow Leopard on it and move the Mountain Lion to my MacBook Pro. How do I do that? Any suggestions? Thanks!
download Mountain Lion again from the App Store - once the download is complete, it will try to install - cancel the install and create a Mountain Lion USB installer.
http://lifehacker.com/5928780/how-to-burn-os-x-mountain-lion-to-a-dvd-or-usb-fla sh-drive
You do realize that you can also download Mountain Lion in your Macbook Pro through App Store. It should be under your purchases section when you open App Store.
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