rolf
I am having some trouble. I want to create a partition in unpatitioned space on my boot disk.
(there are 120 free gigs)
Well, guess what... I cant! Apparently, I have to delete everything on the disk and start partitioning and installing all over again. Thats the proper procedure, according to Apple.
Any advice, please?
Edit... I will try to use GParted on live ubuntu, but I hope it will work properly with EFI.
Xsever
It's probably your logical and primary partitions getting mixed up. It's a common mistake that people do when partitioning. (I learnt from my mistake).
Try Gparted and see if will help, but I am guessing the nature of the problem is physical and logical.
If you succeed, please post back results, and the way.
Thanks,
J4D
yup , gparted will do the trick (akeed)
rolf
To run OSX off that drive, I had to partition it using the GPT (or GUID) partitioning scheme. Its different then the MBR code used normally.
In GPT (or GUID or whatever they call it - not sure), you can have a big amount of primary parititions, but no extended paritions. For backwards compatibility, the GUID partition table it mapped to a MBR parition table, but, from what i understand, you cant have extended partitions, which means youre limited to 4 paritions.
I have 5... 1 linux, 1 linux swap, one osx, one windows xp and one for data
its a mess, i am trying to triple boot and have one big partition for the shared data.
So far the data partition is not viewable (althought it is here), i guess it is only registered in the MBR or somthing like that, and the linux is not booting anymore since i installed osx, something went wrong with grub.
Anyway, i dont think i have time for all that. Maybe ill just dd my linux parition to an external drive, then overwrite it with xp, (since i cant more the osx parition), then use the rest of the disk for data.
I wanted to triple boot with linux, but that seems to be too much work. MOst of all, i dont want to loose my linux partition since lots of work went into customising the system.
J4D
wait
is it a 2.5 drive ? get an external enclosure for about 10 $ plug it in another computer and do whatever you want delete partition and restore or back up :D ohh but boot ubuntu first or back track they are both great when it comes to the external hards , and then you can normally use Gparted :D
Joe
Try to get Ubuntu on a stick. It comes in pretty handy.