Re: urgent help needed with partitions
Hi, Using Disk Utility, you should be able to do the following without losing data: 1. Make sure that you have backed up important data on your drive. 2. Make sure that your second partition is empty. 3. In Disk Utility, in the list of disks, select the second partition, the one you wish to delete. 4. Select the Partition tab. 5. Press the Remove Partition button. You should be presented with a dialog letting you know what's going to happen and to confirm. Confirm if all is OK and wait for the process to complete. Next you will likely want to increase the size of your first partition back to it's original size. You should be able to do this as well in Disk Utility by noting how much space is available on your disk, how big the current partition is and entering that number in the partition size for the startup partition, then press Apply. Note, you do NOT want to use the pop-up menu to change the number of partitions as it will erase all current data. Also note that resizing is possible live on the startup disk whereas changing the number of partitions is not. I haven't exhaustively tested this but, it should work. Be patient as some processes take time especially when dealing with the live startup volume. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:45 PM, Rob musicmaker...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I have got myself in a jam. I created a partition on my MacBook called Mac...HD2. and now I cant remove the partition and go back to just 1 partition. Please tell me there is a way to remove the 2nd partition. Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice mail or fax at 206-426-3505 God is good all the time, All the time God is good -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
Re: urgent help needed with partitions
Hi, Thank you for your help. after many tries, I got it to work. at first it gave ne an error could not delete partition because the drive couldn't ve unmounted. Vut everything is OK now. Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice mail or fax at 206-426-3505 God is good all the time, All the time God is good On 2/1/2014 10:23 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, Using Disk Utility, you should be able to do the following without losing data: 1. Make sure that you have backed up important data on your drive. 2. Make sure that your second partition is empty. 3. In Disk Utility, in the list of disks, select the second partition, the one you wish to delete. 4. Select the Partition tab. 5. Press the Remove Partition button. You should be presented with a dialog letting you know what's going to happen and to confirm. Confirm if all is OK and wait for the process to complete. Next you will likely want to increase the size of your first partition back to it's original size. You should be able to do this as well in Disk Utility by noting how much space is available on your disk, how big the current partition is and entering that number in the partition size for the startup partition, then press Apply. Note, you do NOT want to use the pop-up menu to change the number of partitions as it will erase all current data. Also note that resizing is possible live on the startup disk whereas changing the number of partitions is not. I haven't exhaustively tested this but, it should work. Be patient as some processes take time especially when dealing with the live startup volume. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:45 PM, Rob musicmaker...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I have got myself in a jam. I created a partition on my MacBook called Mac...HD2. and now I cant remove the partition and go back to just 1 partition. Please tell me there is a way to remove the 2nd partition. Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice mail or fax at 206-426-3505 God is good all the time, All the time God is good -- 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/groups/opt_out. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
urgent help needed with partitions
Well, I have got myself in a jam. I created a partition on my MacBook called Mac...HD2. and now I cant remove the partition and go back to just 1 partition. Please tell me there is a way to remove the 2nd partition. Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice mail or fax at 206-426-3505 God is good all the time, All the time God is good -- 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/groups/opt_out.
