Thanks Tim, I was in a bit of a panic yesterday and I expected the Apple genius to say exactly what you just did. However, he didn't and I took a chance on partitioning my drive and reinstalling on the new partition. The process worked flawlessly and I migrated all my info and apps over. When I woke up this morning, I was back in business.
Thanks for the info though, I'll be better prepared and more willing to take the risk next time. Wish those geniuses would say more than - I don't know what is wrong, it could be software or hardware and we need to keep your laptop for three days and charge you $100 to backup your data...Looks like they just want the money and not necessarily to help. Thx, Jeff > On Jan 7, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
