Intel Mac :: Can't Reformat Or Delete A Partition
Jul 2, 2012
I have an early 2006 iMac with the notorious GPU issues so after replacing it with a new Mac Mini it's time to sell the iMac for parts. I'm trying to reformat the hard drive with no success - I boot off of the original Mac OS X 10.4.4 CD, launch Disk Utility, but whenever I try to erase the disk or delete the partition the program freezes. I've even tried using GParted Live! CD to delete the partition and the same thing happens - whenever I assess it, it locks GParted as well! Funny thing is, I can still boot off of the hard drive just fine.I should mention that the hard drive has 10.5.8 installed - perhaps there's an incompatibility between Disk Utility 10.4 and the installed OS?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Jun 3, 2012
Can I reformat or partition my computer without loosing all my files?
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iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
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Apr 5, 2012
2011 iMac, Lion 10.7.3 Using bootcamp, I add windows partition(NTFS) so, my HDD has two partitions now.What I want to do is.Running OS X, write and delete files on Windosw partition and running Windows, write and delete files on OS X partition Possible?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 8, 2009
So I have an external firewire drive I use for all my Time Machine backups in OS X. It's formatted in the typical Mac journaled format or whatever it is. I have 2 partitions, one with my Time Machine backup. I booted in Windows 7, and intended to reformat the other partition to work with Windows, but it didn't want to let me change that partition, though it did recognize it as an OS X format.
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Aug 29, 2009
I can't install Snow Leopard because my hard drive doesn't have a Guid partition scheme. how do i reformat my drive without losing all my info.
P.s. I'm backing up my hard drive now to and external drive with carbon copy cloner.
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Mar 4, 2008
I've been trying to install xp pro sp2 using boot camp on a macbook 2.2Ghz. It does the initial setup where i reformat the xp partition in fat32 and then when it goes to boot into the xp installer it says: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <windows root>system32hal.dll. please re-install a copy of the above file.
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Aug 14, 2010
I have the Seagate Momentus XT and I have a quick question. If I reformat the Hard Drive portion does that erase the SSD side as well? If not how do I erase the SSD side of it.
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Aug 22, 2014
Is it possible to reformat a single partition of a disk w/o reformatting the entire disk?Or must one reformat the entire disk? In DU, If I click on the volume/partition in question, I do NOT get the tab “Partition.” If I click on the disk, not just the volume/partition in question , then I do get the tab “Partition.” Also, does using DU to secure erase a volume by overwriting with 0s, cause a format issue? Some details on my other post:Create a bootable clone using Disk Utility
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 4 GB RAM, Win XP Pro-Boot Camp
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Jan 9, 2009
I recently bought my mother a Macbook. It was a store display one but she had no problems with that. Anyways when we first boot it up I noticed that on the desktop there is a Time Machine disk. So I openMacintosh HD that there is only 17 gbs free out of 33 gb, so I check System Profiler to see if there is a smaller hd in there but the it says that the hd is 150 gb.
So I'm wondering how to delete the time machine partition and resize the Macintosh HD partition so I can give her the most space she can get.
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Jan 25, 2009
Is it possible without having to reformat my whole disk aka put osx back on there again?
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Aug 26, 2010
I erased my bootcamp partition this morning thinking that was the same as deleting the partition - how do I actually delete the partition and combine it with my MAC OS partition now? I can't do it thru bootcamp
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Apr 6, 2012
I installed windows through bootcamp and partitioned my hard drive to about a 300Gb/600Gb windows and mac respectively. After a while i decided to remove the windows partition. As I was repartitioning the Hard Drive through disk utility my mac froze and went to a gray screen so I restarted it. Disk utility says that the process finished however it does not recognise the 300Gb I used for windows. i.e. Disk utility says there is one partition, and that the total capacity is about 1Tb.
However the spaced used and space available adds up to 600Gb, its like the mac thinks that it is repartitoned to just 1, but not allowing me to acces that 300Gb. so my question is how do i completely strip back the hard drive to basic factory settings (iv backed up all my data to an external drive) so I can reinstall the mac operating system and repair the drive to make use of its full capacity, then re install from my backed up external drive.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 29, 2012
I purchased an external hard drive ( a Seagate 2 TB Expansion Desktop Drive) and was told by the MAC rep in the store to perform the following simple task to reformat the disk so I could drag and drop files from my iMAC and store them on the external hard drive:
1. Go to Disk Utility
2. Choose the External Hard Drive
3. Select Erase
4. Select MAC OS Extended (Journaled)
5. Click on Erase button
Unfortunately when I do this, I get the following error: Disk erase Failed with Error: File system formatter failed? I have Mac OS X (10.5.8)...
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Jun 30, 2012
Holding down those keys does start OSX utilities, cannot reformat
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 27, 2014
I have an early 2008 iMac which I am about to sell and replace with a newer version. I regularly use Time Machine to do back ups. What's the best way to reformat my old machine before I sell and also restore all my files onto the new iMac?
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IMac, Macbook Pro
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Mar 20, 2009
I have had my macbook for a while and I needed windows for something so I decided to try out Bootcamp. I read that you are supposed to back everything up on Time machine so I tried that. I made a partition on my disk for everything to back up to. Unfortunately I did not leave enough space and time machine stopped. I tried to delete the disk and just create a partition for Windows, But I don't know how to delete it.
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May 19, 2012
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. It's asking to run a recovery. Is this going to erase everything??
My storage says it's using 434GB of other. Whatever other is.....did I get a virus?
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MacBook
Pro, iOS 5.1.1, Storage/Repair/Disk Utility
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May 28, 2009
how do i go about deleting the partition parallels has created for my Windows boot?
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Apr 15, 2010
After getting my hard drive corrupted by dual boot of Linux, and having to delete everything, I decided to not use it again. With the fresh install of OSX, I inspected the partitions in Terminal and deleted most of them. However, there is a 200mb EFI partition still there. Is it safe to delete it, or will deleting it mess up my system again?
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Aug 6, 2010
Has anyone using only Windows deleted their MAC partition off their hard drive and only have their Windows (NTFS) one? Would it boot fine into W7?
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Sep 10, 2014
I created a partition on my Macbook Pro to try Yosemite and now I want to delete it. Most site says to click the "-" button on partition, but I cannot do this
I also notice that the partitions seems to 'swap'. My main disk used to be 'Macintosh HD' but now the 'Trial' partition somehow moved to the top?I
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MacBook Pro
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Nov 6, 2010
I've installed Windows XP on my iMac using bootcamp. Now, I don't really want it anymore... So, the question is how would I delete the partition without effecting my OS X partition?
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Dec 29, 2010
I mistakenly wiped my windows partition thinking it would delete it so i could gain 5gb back to my OSX drive.
I should have used Boot camp assistant and i cant use time machine as the last time it was syncd was in November and i would then lose some important Music projects.
I have a new SSD Hybrid momentus HD in the post, but i dont want time machine to put the windows partition onto the new drive.
What options do i have, so i dont have to reinstall all my Apps and Documents etc.
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Jun 21, 2009
I plan on installing Win 7 on my MBP but will I be able to delete and restore the partition back to my Mac installation once I'm done with it?
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Dec 31, 2009
I have a new Mac book pro and am trying to migrate my dell, I have used Vmware fusion 3, and all the software available for this but there was always errors gallor. The last attemp was to use Bootcamp, got to the point where there was an error, so I attempted to delete the partition, now this is where I should not have even thought about, but I did and now I have to Reinstall the OSX, is there anybody outr there who has actually migrated there PC to their MAC without any problems.
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May 10, 2012
I want to have as much space as possible on my drive. I have a boot camp partition set up but have decided not to use it. How do I safely delete it?
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iMac
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Apr 12, 2009
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Oct 3, 2009
I used Boot Camp to setup a partition for installing Windows. I no longer need the partition nor Windows. How can I delete that partition and make it useful for my laptop?
I'd like to have it as just one big hard drive rather than it showing up as 2 separate hard drives. I believe it's called extend the hard drive if I'm correct.
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May 24, 2008
I deleted the second partition (I didn't used anymore) with Disk Utility and extended the first one (to the maximum space).
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Mar 21, 2012
after i erased the partition in the list in left i couldn't delete a partition in disk utility "File system resize support required, such as HFS with Journaling enabled" error, i think it came with REfit program!?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), intel core i5
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