Hi, Does your Mac start up from the Recovery Partition? If so, things should work out OK, otherwise, you may have bigger problems. A couple things to note. Re-installing over the existing MacOS will 99 times out of 100 just do exactly that. You will not lose a thing, it will just install the OS components, and you’re good to go. If you do wish to partition your disk, you can also do this from the Disk Utility app within the Recovery Partition. You will need to select the drive itself when in Disk Utility, not the volume name. Then select the Partition tab and enter the size you wish to make your original partition. For example, on your 2 TB drive, you can say you wish the current partition to be 1000 GB or 1 TB and apply your changes. This will leave the rest of your HD unallocated. Click the Add Partition button and apply your changes and a new partition will be created using the full unallocated space and your original partition will be untouched.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jan 6, 2015, at 18:04, Jeff Berwick <mailingli...@berwick.name> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have an issue my installation of Yosemite and the Mac Genius I spoke to > said it could be software and it could be hardware. As a result, I'm trying > to solve it myself. > > The Macbook boots up, but finder doesn't actually launch, so I can't do > anything. I am first wondering if anybody knows how to fix finder - other > than disk repair and/or permissions repair. > > Failing that, I would like to reinstall Yosemite. I assume that, if I > reinstall it on the drive, I will lose all my programs and settings. As a > result, I'd like to do a clean install but, I have a lot to back up. So, can > I partition the 2tb drive and reinstall on the new partitian? If so, how? > > Thx, > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
