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Re: Mac Help!
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Sat, 22 October 2005 23:45
 
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| ZZT231 wrote on Sun, 23 October 2005 04:06 |
Hello All,
My mate lent me his mini Mac and I'm just learning how to use OS X, anyway, is there a way to get rid of the partition hard disks? If so how do I do it?
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do you want to repartition the disk into less or more partitions? getting rid of partitions would simply mean you loose the disk space.
and why do you want to change disk partitions?
anyway, you use the Disk Utility - you obviously can't do it to a disk you've booted up from and repartitioning will loose all the data on the disk.
There are probaby dynamic repartioning tools out there for mac (like Partition Magic for PCs) but i've never used them and would feel much saver backing up a disk to another location, repartioning & reformatting then restoring the data - a much simpelr and safer solution.
If you boot up from the install disk, the DIsk Utility is available to you in the installer interface.
On a running system, the Disk Utility app. is in the Utilities directory under the Applications directory.
you'll need to be an adminstrator for the system to allow you to change disk partitions.
oh - are you doing this with OS X version 10.4 or 10.3
cheers,
Charles.
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Mac Help!
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ZZT231 | Sat, 22 October 2005 18:06 |
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Re: Mac Help!
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thechuckster | Sat, 22 October 2005 23:45 |
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Re: Mac Help!
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ZZT231 | Sun, 23 October 2005 11:45 |
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Re: Mac Help!
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thechuckster | Tue, 25 October 2005 11:06 |
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Re: Mac Help!
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Ribfeast | Tue, 25 October 2005 06:14 |
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Re: Mac Help!
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Merudo | Tue, 25 October 2005 08:05 |
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Re: Mac Help!
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Ribfeast | Wed, 26 October 2005 06:03 |
