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Problem with disk after SSD upgrade

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  • 29-07-2012 6:01pm
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    chabsey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭


    MBP early 2011, now with an SSD in the drive bay and the original drive in the DVD drive bay.

    So I managed to clone my HDD to an SSD and it all works well, including bootcamp. No problems at all. My original HDD I put into the DVD bay in a caddy. It works as well, can access it but I would now like to format it, which I can't seem to do, presumably because of the recovery partition on it.

    My new SSD has a mountain lion recovery partition on it, the old HDD has a lion recovery partition on it. I upgraded to mountain lion after the SSD upgrade.

    So now when I boot into windows by holding down the option key I see 6 drives! New mac ssd, old mac hdd, old win, new ssd win, mountain lion recovery and old lion recovery!

    Question is, how can I edit this boot menu to remove the invalid entries and also how can I format the old internal HDD now that it's in my DVD drive bay. Windows let me format the old win partition no problem but I get a 'can't unmount' error in mac os disk utility when I try.

    From reading online it appears to be because the drive thinks the recovery partition is still important or used, when it isn't really.

    Any ideas anyone?


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    #2
    MiniNukinfuts
    Registered Users Posts: 951 ✭✭✭MiniNukinfuts


    Have you tried booting into the recovery partition of the SSD? Then go into the disk utility there and reformat the HDD


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    chabsey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭chabsey


    I haven't, I'm fairly new to Macs and the whole idea of recovery partitions makes me a little uneasy. Assuming I'm safe though and not likely to screw everything up you think that might sort it?


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    chabsey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭chabsey


    Bit the bullet, booted into the recovery partition and formatted it from there. I still have two windows partitions appearing on the boot up menu but presumably I need to format the old windows partition from the recovery partition to get rid of that one as well.

    THanks for the help.


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