MacBook Pro :: How To Make A Single Partition
Jun 5, 2012How can i make a single partition on mac book pro? My bootcamp is not working properly,so i need to return back to a single partition .
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Sep 7, 2010Got my first MacBook Pro about 2 months ago and I have been enjoying it to full effect, installing programs such as logic studio and photoshop cs5 on it. Recently, however, I decided that I would like to access some of my windows based programs when I am on the road and don't have my desktop pc with me. So I bought a fresh copy of 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate and sat at my macbook, put the disc in and then loaded up Boot Camp. I went through the menu options, decided that I wanted a 50GB partition, leaving my Mac OS drive at 182 GB with 83GB to spare. However, when I started partitioning, after about a minute it stopped and this error message appeared: "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.".
I tried cleaning all my temporary files and deleting some files in my downloads that were quite large and I restarted my machine. The problem persisted. Is there a solution to this problem that does not involve doing all this rubbish with a fresh install of Mac OS? I don't have any method of backup apart from a couple of 4GB flash drives..
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 31, 2009I am trying to make a second partition on the internal HDD of my Macbook usking Disk Utility. Disk Utility is being run after booting up from the OS X install DVD.I get an error of Partition failed with the errorFilesystem verify or repair failed"hat is going on? How do I fix it so I can make a partition?
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So if I have 10.6 installed and want to install Windows on a Mac, how can I create a 3rd (shared) FAT32 partition without reformatting the hard drive? I know how to without reformatting, but is there any way to just split my current partition into 2? I know how to do this on Windows, that is by shrinking the partition, but is there any similar function on a Mac so I don't lost existing files?
MacBook Pro :: Unable To Make Partition Drive?
Nov 27, 2009trying to partition the drive (320 gig) to install windows 7 on. after allocating the space and setting the format to FAT32, it quits about half way and tells me partition failure. try lowering the amount of space devoted to the partition. even when shortening it I keep getting the same error.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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I ran a demo of iPartition and this message was flagged:
"You cannot make changes to the disk from which your system booted.
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Jun 20, 2009What is the best way to make a FAT32 partition on a MacBook's internal hard drive? (I plan to use it to share files between OS X and Windows.) I did some research on this, and some people say to use Disk Utility, however, the only disk format available for me is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and there are no FAT32 or FAT or MS-DOS options. Perhaps those options were taken out since then(?). One other person said to create the partition using Windows, which I think would work, but I'm a little worried about that because I've read that editing partitions outside of OS X can prevent Boot Camp from seeing the partitions.
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