disk utility - partitions..

[nicK]

wondering if anyone knows much about disk utility?

i recently installed leopard onto one of my 3 macbookpro partitions before deleted the other 2- i'm now stuck with a 40gig leopard partition and can't resize it to it's full size of 160gigs(even after freeing up and deleting the rest of the 120gigs in disk utility)

i've went through all the basics and it's seemingly just not working, so is there any alternative software i should try or is it just something i'm blatently missing?

Sad Professor

Are you sure you can't resize it? Leopard's Disk Utility is supposed to be able to do this. Although it may not able to remove the partitions completely. Tbh I'd just reformat the whole drive and start over.

[nicK]

Sad Professor wrote: »

Are you sure you can't resize it? Leopard's Disk Utility is supposed to be able to do this. Although it may not able to remove the partitions completely. Tbh I'd just reformat the whole drive and start over.

reformatting is currently not an option as i no longer have the leopard install disks or .dmg's..

i've tried too many times to resize my current partition or delete the remaining free space but nothing is working.. i'm obviously missing something ridiculously simple here, if someone could point me in the right direction it would be great, however it seems apple are ****ing me up the ass on this one..

fasty

No longer have install disks and dmg's eh?

This should work no problem, bootcamp does it for example. Click on the disk containing the partition you want to mess around with, click on the partition tab and drag the partition to the size you want. To delete partitions, select it and click the minus.

I've attached a screenshot for you...

Read only partitions like my Windows Vista one for example, can't be resized, only deleted.

What error are you getting?

[nicK]

don't know how to take a screenshot in osx but i attached a pic taken by my trusty iphone..

in your pic it's possible to hovver over any corner of the drive in disk utilty and extend it, with my drive, it's not possible at all..

when my other partitions were at the top of the 'volume scheme' it was possible to resize and mess around with them but my drive for some reason won't move from the bottom apart from being able to make it smaller??

fasty

Command - Option - 3 for a selection, Command - Option 4 for the whole screen.

Looking at the screenshot and testing it on a small external disk I have, I'm sorry to say you're stuck. It looks like Disk Utility will let you grow and shrink read/write partitions but not move them.

Sorry buddy, better get a hold of the Leopard install media again...

EDIT: Maybe you could create a new Mac partition in the free space and use Disk Utility to image the small one at the bottom to the big one at the top.

Once you're happy it's working, nuke the bottom partition and grow the top one.

Reply here if you need more instructions and I accept no responsibility if this doesn't work

[nicK]

fasty wrote: »

Command - Option - 3 for a selection, Command - Option 4 for the whole screen.

Looking at the screenshot and testing it on a small external disk I have, I'm sorry to say you're stuck. It looks like Disk Utility will let you grow and shrink read/write partitions but not move them.

Sorry buddy, better get a hold of the Leopard install media again...

EDIT: Maybe you could create a new Mac partition in the free space and use Disk Utility to image the small one at the bottom to the big one at the top.

Once you're happy it's working, nuke the bottom partition and grow the top one.

Reply here if you need more instructions and I accept no responsibility if this doesn't work

that actually sounds like a decent idea- i'll give it a go and sure if it doesn't work i guess i'll have to get hold of all 7gigs of those .dmg 'install disks' again

appreciate the help anyway..