Creating a new disk formatting scheme or altering an existing scheme
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How do I change a disk partition map scheme from MBR to GUID Partitions Table?
I just finished the huge download of Mac OS X Lion, started the installer, and now I have a problem. The installer says that I must have the GUID-Partitions Table Scheme.
The problem is that when I ...
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Issues with Bootcamp trying to boot to a bootable device other than my HD
A week ago, I attempting to load Windows (with Boot Camp) on my Mac Pro. The Windows 7 install CD I used had missing files, and thus I deleted the partition I created to house windows, not wanting to ...
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Expanding OSX partition and deleting Windows paritition
I have created a Windows partition with Bootcamp. Now I would like to get rid of this partition and attach the available space back to the primary Mac OS partition.
I have found various tutorials ...
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How do I partition my computer for Boot Camp?
I want to create a BootCamp partition on my 13" MBP with a 250 Gb hard drive.
The DiskUtility shows the partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
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When trying to perform a partitioning with ...
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Is it possible to Move a bootcamp partition from one drive to another?
When I got a new MacPro last year I formatted one of the additional (i.e. non-boot) drives with Bootcamp and installed Win 7 x64 on it. This set up has been working well these last 12+ months but I ...
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Safe to Repair NTFS Drive/Partitions When Paragon Is Installed
Is is safe to repair NTFS drive/partitions with Paragon installed? I don't have access to windows anymore and can't format them
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Disk utility, shrink 1 partition, expand the other
I have two partitions on my external HDD, I shrinked 1 partition (Macintosh Lion) in order to expand the other (Macintosh HD), but I can't drag the lower right corner to expand of the 'Macintosh HD' ...
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Unhide Partitions via Terminal
Is there any way to unhide partitions that have been hidden by a third party partitioning tool on a Mac using nothing more than Terminal via a Mac OS X Boot CD or USB stick?
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These partitions ...
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can't partition hard drive
I tried to make a partition on my macbook for windows. I was unable to do so, because, apparently, the hard-drive has been damaged. Since I do not have osx installation cd, I tried to recover using 1) ...
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1answer
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Black screen when installing Boot Camp?
I recently did a complete wipe of my late 2009 MBP and restore using a Time Machine backup, so I would have uninterupted space at the end of the drive for creating a Boot Camp partition. The Boot Camp ...
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osx split external hard drive partition
I currently have a 640GB external HD that has 1 partition formatted as HSF+ Now I want to split some of the free space into a new FAT32 partition, without having to reformat the whole HD and losing ...
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How do I format a disk partition from the command line on OS X?
How do I format a disk partition from the command line on Mac OS X?
In case someone wonders why: because for some people Disk Utility fails.
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How do I install Windows 7 without BootCamp and keep the OS X installation intact?
Because I already used BootCamp for creating the partition I used for installing Ubuntu, now I am not able to install Windows 7 by using BootCamp.
Here is my disk partiton configuration:
refit ...
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How do I resize OS X main partition when I already have other BootCamp partitions?
Short story: partition resizing using Disk Utility fails because MediaKit reports no such partition when I try to shrink it. I also tried the same while booting from the DVD, same result.
Details:
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Why can't I resize my existing partition?
I just finished downloading my copy of Lion and wanted to install it on a new second partition. I freed up just over 50 GBs from my hard drive and am now stuck trying to shrink my existing partition. ...
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How to remove unfinished Boot Camp Partition?
When I tried to create a new partition using Boot Camp it suddenly crashed and my computer restarted. Apparently the partition was created because the 50GB I specified during creation are gone from my ...
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Is “ignore volume ownership” the default for non-system partitions?
I realise it is the default for external drives but not sure about other partitions on a users system drive. I don't have separate partitions on my machine so I can't look for myself ;-)
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Install Boot Camp gone bad — installed windows on a wrong drive
I tried to install Boot Camp to my iMac and I installed windows to the wrong drive. Instead of Boot Camp partition, I installed it to OS X :( So now I cannot repair the drive using disk utility ...
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My Windows 7 Boot Camp partition is missing. Why doesn't Parallels recognize it?
I installed Windows 7 on my (month-old) Macbook Pro using boot camp assistant. I basically used defaults throughout, so I don't think there's anything crazy about my setup.
Usually, after doing this, ...
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“Not enough space” on partitioning?
I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free. I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition. Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space. I'm ...
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How can I change the title of a boot image?
I have an external Hard Drive with two bootable partitions on it. The first is an image of a Mac OS X 10.6 Install DVD, and the second is an image of a Mac OS X 10.6.3 Install DVD.
When I plug the ...
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Is there a safe way to move the /Users folder to a separate volume/drive?
I have an SSD on the way and will be moving my HDD to the optical bay slot in my MBP. I want to boot from the SSD and store my /Users folder on the HDD. I've seen the way that everyone suggest ...
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How can I use NTFS partitions in OS X?
My coworkers use NTFS partitions, and I can't share my data with them, as NTFS on Mac OS X is read-only.
How can I read and write onto NTFS partitions?
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