PowerPC :: Reverting Back To One Partition From 3 - No Options To Apply
Jan 11, 2011
I have a G5 with 10.4.11. There is 3 partitioned drives that I want gone and set back to the original 1 drive. I just cant seem to figure out what I am doing wrong. I don't need anything on the Mac as I have already backed up all info I wanted saved. When I go into the disk utilities/partitions/volume scheme it shows 3 drives. When I switch the volume scheme to 1 partition their are no options to "apply" for me to revert to 1 partition only.
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Oct 28, 2009
I would like to uninstall windows from my i-Mac and revert back to a single partition hardrive. Unfortunately I installed Windows about three years ago (never to use it really) and now when I go to uninstall in Mac OS X it says my Boot Camp beta has expired.
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I know that I can right-click (er, two-finger click) when I'm in a folder and set things like "Arrange By" / "Sort By" / "Icon Size" and then click "Use as Defaults," but it seems to only apply these to the new folders I create after I apply these settings (if they're applied at all, I'm having trouble figuring out what "Use as Defaults" even accomplishes.)
But I've already moved a ton of folders over from my old laptop, and they've got some seriously wonky view settings. There would be 3-4 folders right on top of one another, and then the folder I'm looking for is in no-mans-land 600 pixels to the right. It's a mess
I want every folder on my computer ever and forever to snap to grid, arrange by kind, and "float" to the top left (no gaps between files - fill'er'up!). How can I do this without going into every single folder and changing the settings individually?
(On another related note, is it possible to force folder contents to fit the window size? I dont want to have to scroll horizontally to see a folder's contents when I resize it.)
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Like many here I am a reasonably 'savvy' user but have got very grey over the past week or so. I run an aged and trusted G4 and took a number of decisions recently - to add a second HD, to upgrade to Leopard from Tiger, to upgrade to the 2008 Mac Office and to install CS4 (all legal).
I am getting major problems with the machine hanging up and believe that it is to do with Leopard and CS4 (the latter of which I wish to remove). So, the nub of my question is whether I can revert the machine to Tiger and if so, how!
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Created a slide show, Then a request for Black and white,  No problem.  Now I need to take the slide show back to colour, And the only way i can find is to go back to original un doing all the work I done in raw format. I saved everything in k peg. But the works had gone in the raw files, We need a way to step back after the presses on raw. From black and white back to colour, without having to revert to originals.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1, Lion 8 gb ram Custom HD screen. 750
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Nov 26, 2009
Apple, you broked it AGAIN!! You're getting tired of hearing this but Fix The ********** Finder!!!
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Come on Apple! You do a great job at making things work, such so that we have to bring ourselves to THIS! Batching about so little an issue as not applying my pretty background color to all my windows! If you're going to break something at least break something worth fixing!
Anybody heard of a fix for this?
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Jul 30, 2009
I had my hard drive partitioned into 2, where one was mac the other windows xp. I received this macbook as a gift from my sister so i wanted to reformat everything into mac. I popped in the Mac OS x install cd and just installed it. Now there is two hard drives and I am not able to re-partition it where i can bring it back to one again...I was suppose to delete windows first before re-formating my macbook.
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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)
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Apr 11, 2012
I have just finished a seven month fiasco working with a refurbished 3.4 GHz i7 mid-2011 iMac, with the Radeon 6970 graphics card. I had originally purchased it to replace an early quad core 2008 Mac Pro. I had the iMac hot-rodded by the OWC folks to include a Mercury 480 GB SSD and eSATA port. That story involves multiple issues with failed components and a complete inability to install bootcamp, which was needed for work-related software that did not play well in a virtualized environment. So now, with the latest iMac hardware failure (Fire Wire port), I have thrown in the towel and will be going back to Mac Pro. (Takes deep breath.)The iMac is currently being used for work, my second job as a part time pro photographer (Photoshop, Aperture), some videography and transcoding and occasional gaming.I'm looking to hit performance marks for processing and video similar to the i7 and am willing to consider refurb or pre-owned machines. New 8 core Nehalem and 6 core Westmere machines are outside my budget. Definite upgrades I intend to add are:
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2.I'm having a real hard time with my video card options. It seems that potential choices include the 5770, 5870 and 6970 cards.I'm not overly concerned about the price differences, but would like to find the best performance/value combination, given my needs.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Apr 19, 2009
I partitioned my hard drive to install windows. I rebooted, loaded up the windows disc. And then realized my disc only had one partition. I quit the windows installer without installing windows, went into boot mode and I can only see my bootcamp partition. Is there any way to get my osx partition back?
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I'm a bit unsure as to the best way to tackle this. I have a single partition on my Leopard install with that partition map scheme being a "Master Boot Record" as apposed to a GUID Partition Table (GPT). Not sure why it is not a GPT but I appear to have formatted it incorrectly when I installed it (as a replacement drive / upgrade of the original). In any case, I now need to change this partition system back to a GPT so that it will allow me to run firmware updates as EFI upgrades are dependent on a GPT partition.
My question is more or less what is the best way to accomplish this given it's going to require a reformatting of all my data in any case. I have it all backed up to a Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule but to reformat the drive would then mean I have to re-install the Tiger install, followed by the Leopard upgrade disks, followed finally by the restore from Time Machine.
Is there an easier way to clone the data perhaps, such as with a Carbon Copy Cloner disk to disk clone? Or would that "restore" then merely include the actual partition format back to Master Boot Record as part of the clone? (I suspect the clone includes the partition type). Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Are there any other options?
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Apr 25, 2012
how do i get the partition off and back to my default drive..
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 27, 2014
I have a macbook Mid 2010 13 inch.
I tried to Partiton my hardrive for bootcamp which was going fine. i then accidentally cancelled it in the middle of partitioning and now its saying that there is only 87GB of memory left
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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I made a partition but delete it now can't add back the space.
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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May 13, 2008
I have a PowerMac G4, dual 1.25, 2 gigs of RAM and I'm thinking about upgrading. I don't have a big budget so the new Mac Pro is out of the question. I've been trying to figure out what's going to be more beneficial for me: 1) I upgrade the processor on my G4 to the maximum of dual 1.8 or 2) get an iMac, maybe the lowest version of 2.4Ghz Intel core duo.I'm an audio engineer and my projects require a lot of audio recording, mixing, and mastering. Once in a blue moon I have to work audio synced up to video. That was the reason I HAD to get a PowerMac 4 years ago and not the old version of the iMac. All my software work perfectly with OS 10.3.9 so it's not a requirement for me to get a better operating system. In fact, one application is still not available for OS 10.5.
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By the way, I tried restarting and pressing Command-R to get into Recovery Mode. That did not work at all. The Snow Leopard opened every time without going into Recovery.
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iMac
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