I have a 3 TB hard drive which I'd previously partitioned into a 1 TB and a 2 TB partition. I've emptied and erased the 2 TB compartment, but when I go to the partition section on Disk Utility, and select that partition (now called Free Space) and select it, only the + button is alive, and the - button is greyed out.Â
How can I delete this entire partition?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Bought a used 4 TB Seagate drive, formatted it , checked the speed 150 MB/s read/write and made a partition. Apparently it worked perfect.Â
However after this first partition the drive is behaving erratically. I can not modify partitions anymore nor delete them. Repair disk is not finding any problem either from the system or from the recovery partition.Â
I am starting to believe the disk is damaged. Beside the partition problem the disk is behaving fine.
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Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
I had installed a windows partition through virtualbox, i tried many times to delete the partition but i didn't succeed. So i reinstalled the virtualbox to try through the media manager but appears this message:Â
windows (inaccessible)Â Runtime error opening '/Users/MonicaSolorio/VirtualBox VMs/Windows/Windows.vbox' for reading: -102(File not found.)./Users/vbox/tinderbox/4.3-mac-rel/src/VBox/Main/src-server/MachineImpl.cpp[731] (nsresult Machine::registeredInit()).Result Code:NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)Component:MachineInterface:IMachine {480cf695-2d8d-4256-9c7c-cce4184fa048}
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
currently have 2 partitions bootcamp and lion. and have read alot about how if you create said partition it will mess up windows bootcamp. but have yet to see any actual answer as to how to creat the 3rd partition. correct me if wrong but is it better to delete bootcamp creat partition then install bootcamp and restore from system image?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
the "edit" button is greyed out... what to do?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4), os x lion server
Time machine reported an error and couldn't back up, so I ran disk utility on the time machine drive and got this message. Â
"error: couldn't repair the partition map because a new EFI system partition couldnt be created."Â
Then I hit verify disk and got the message Â
"Error:Â partition map check failed because no slices were found."Â
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Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
I upgraded to iTunes 11.4 today, and now I'm not able to sync my iPhone 5s. The sync button is greyed out. I tried reinstalling, reauthorizing, signing in again in iTunes and my iPhone. I also restored my phone twice...not sure what else to do. I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on an iMac Intel Core Duo.
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iMac 20" Intel Core Duo 2 GHz, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 2 Gig
I have a 4TB internal drive in my Powermac. It currently has two partitions: one that is about 270GB that is almost full, and one that is 3.7GB, that is about 25% full. Â
Disk Utility will not let me add a third one, however. The drive is NOT a fusion drive.
I have an external hard drive that is about one third full. Can I now partition it into 2 partitions in which the existing data is in Partition 1, and Partition 2 is empty and available for new, different data?
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iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
I had an external hard drive that was formatted to NTFS that was used on my PC but I want to switch it over to mac now. I erased the partition on Windows, then plugged it into my mac but it's stuck at 'preparing to partition the disk'. What should I do, it's been stuck for ages!!
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 13" Late 2012 model
I have Windows 7 installed on my sons MacBook Pro.Â
The Drive is partitioned at 500GB for Windows and 300GB for Mac.
In windows, I need to shrink the Windows drive, and then create 2 extra drives from it.
However, I can shrink the drive, but when I try to Format, it tells me that it cannot find the drive, and then it changes the drive types to all "Dynamic" including the Mac Drive.
And once this happens, I can no longer access the Mac drive during Boot, and windows will not load, as it cannot find the drive during windows boot up. And which point, I have to restore the system and it takes up to 6 hours to installed Lion, as my Internet is slowing that a cold winters day.Â
So, my question is the following.
How can I successfully shrink the drive.
Then Partition the FREE space
Then Format to NTFS without loosing drive type and integrity?Â
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MacBook Pro, Windows 7
I recently reformatted my entire drive and reinstalled Lion with the official Lion USB recovery tool/usb. Now in disk utility the Partition Layout option is greyed out and I can not seem to re partition my disk. I´ve tried repairing my disk rights but still its greyed out.
I ran a demo of iPartition and this message was flagged:
"You cannot make changes to the disk from which your system booted.
To make changes to this disk, you should either boot from an external drive, use Target Disk Mode with another Mac, or create a bootable CD/DVD." Does this mean I can only make changes with it when booting with the usb? This doesn´t make sense as it worked on the default startdisk before. Does anyone have solution?
I'm going to reinstall OS X. But before doing that, I want to delete the files in folders named Library one by one and see what could happen. Will that cause any trouble that will prevent me from reinstalling OS X successfully?
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MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
My delete button is not working in mail. When I press delete it automatically change to undelete, and I can not delete any of my messages.
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I was using Logic Pro X and the program crashed before I could save my project. There is now a file called "untitled" that appears to be a Logic Project file, however I cannot delete, open, rename, and move it anywhere. When I try to click and drag the file icon, it doesn't allow me to move it anywhere.  Â
When right-click on the file, it pops up the window, but there are only a few options available. I went to "get info" and saw that the file permissions are "unknown". I've tried repairing disk permissions in the disk utility, however the file is still unaccessible.It's not a large file (only 578K), but it would still like to remove it.Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
I have created months ago a mail folder which automaticly places "spam" messages, and recently when I try to delete the messages from the folder , they become greyedout and cant be deleted.
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I am running Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on a MacBook Air. I have email messages saved to Mailboxes in Mail on my hard drive, and these messages are also backed up in Time Machine. How do I delete certain of these backed-up messages? If the files were accessible in the Finder, I know how to use the action menu (gear icon) to delete all backups of the chosen file. But I don't see any way to delete the email messages in Mail on T.M.
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MacBook
got automatically put into the Logic Pro discussions, however it's not really a Logic question or issue, more of a disk permission issue (I think..). Here is the original post: URL.... I'm stuck with this file on my system and how to remove it.Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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
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 HFSÂ 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
Bootcamp was previously setup such that there were two partitions; a Bootcamp and Mac partitiion.
In retrospect I would say foolishly, I created a third partition and formatted it as FAT; ideally so it could be used for common data between Mac and Windows. After I did that and restarted, I could not boot into Windows, it told me it was Non-Bootable.
I thought I would delete the partition and revert to the two partitions, but Disk Utility would not allow me to delete the newly created partition.Â
One more bit of information: rEFit was installed on the computer by a previous owner.Â
i.e., either get me back to two partitions such that I could boot into Mac or Windows or get to 3 partitions such that I could set the machine up with a common data partition for both Mac and Windows.Â
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)
What i want to do is i dont want Time Machine to backup my bootcamp partition (win 7 with ntfs format). but when i click on option, the time machine will automatically include it. and i canNOT remove it. the miuns ( - ) symbol is gray out and i cant do anything with it. how can i not include the bootcamp partition in my backup? if it still not clear, you can reply and ask me more about it.
Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), mac mini 2010 mid
I installed Ubuntu on my Macbook but it didn't really work for me so I deleted it. I used Disk Utility to delete the Ubuntu partition, but when I want to delete a Linux-swap partition I made while installing Ubuntu nothing happens. I press the minus button and it will delete it. But after deleting it just stays there, and I can't change the partition in any way. How can I delete the partition?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Is there a way to change the delete button to delete to the right instead of to the left? I always have to reposition the cursor to delete what I want!Â
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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.
Is it possible without having to reformat my whole disk aka put osx back on there again?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
When I resume from sleep the top half of the screen is grey'ed out and it won't go away without going through Shut Down. Just restarting has no effect. Â
FYI Just had a look at the sgcreenshot now that its been uploaded and its considerably brighter than the actual screen. In reality the top menu bar is almost completely occluded and the tone graduates out from about 90% black at the top to around 10% black at the centre of screen. Â
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iPad, iOS 5
