PowerBook Partition Problem

chilleymac

I have a 550 PB with a 18.63g drive. I partioned the drive before I loaded Jaguar. Now I want to remove the os9 partion and run with just an osX partition. Can I do this without reloading the entire system. Or do I need to start from scratch. Any help would be awesome.

defiant

you need to start from scratch. a hard-drive cannot be 'de-partitionized'...

123

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

<strong>you need to start from scratch. a hard-drive cannot be 'de-partitionized'...</strong><hr></blockquote>



Not true. Partition Magic has done this for years (unfortunately it's Windows only). Have a look at <a href="http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html"; target="_blank">partition toolkit</a>. I've never used it but it's supposed to do exactly what you need.

chilleymac

Thanks for the help, but I went ahead and reloaded from scratch. Or should I say I AM reloading from scratch.

It's a lot of fun. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />

defiant

[quote]Originally posted by 123:

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Not true. Partition Magic has done this for years (unfortunately it's Windows only). Have a look at <a href="http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html"; target="_blank">partition toolkit</a>. I've never used it but it's supposed to do exactly what you need.</strong><hr></blockquote>



I knew that something like this was available for Windows, but not for the mac. since he has a powerbook, it would have been very difficult opening it, taking the hard-drive out, putting it in a windows box who understands HFS+ (the format of the filesystem) and then putting it back in.

ibrowse

I kinda need to do this. But I have a 10 G partition that I lost to Linux that I want back. Am I in the same boat here?

defiant

looks like. except you're willing to to buy the software tool from the link 123 provided and the software to make your HFS+ partition available to windows. then of course you have to transfer all the stuff around, etc.



I would start from scratch.

123

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

<strong>looks like. except you're willing to to buy the software tool from the link 123 provided and the software to make your HFS+ partition available to windows. then of course you have to transfer all the stuff around, etc.



I would start from scratch.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Partition Magic is Windows only and is very reliable.



BUT: The link I gave (Partition Toolkit) is a MACINTOSH tooll!!! You have to boot into OS9, but that shouldn't be a big problem. Like I said, I haven't used it but I think if it works, it might be well worth $25. And it's from FWB (HD Toolkit etc.), so they probably know what they are doing.

ibrowse

Thanks for the advice and link, but what I'll probably do is wait until I get motivated unough to reinstall. I don't need to right now, so it's not a huge deal.

serrano

I've heard some horror stores about partition toolkit. Backup your files, install from scratch.

defiant

[quote]Originally posted by 123:

<strong>BUT: The link I gave (Partition Toolkit) is a MACINTOSH tooll!!!</strong><hr></blockquote>



/me bangs head to wall <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" /> <img src="embarrassed.gif" border="0">

ibrowse

[quote]Originally posted by 123:

<strong>...so they probably know what they are doing.</strong><hr></blockquote>



probably...?



Nah, I'll take the time to back up and reinstall.

1337_5l4xx0r

iBrowse : You could just reformat the ext3 partition to hfs, then from OSX it would mount and you could make it HFS+.



And if you're really ballsy you could try some 'partition magic'-esque app on it after that.





I always crack up when I see posts about people (linux or OSX) who are fragging their drive into like 5 parts (Temp, OS9, OSX, etc etc). No foresight, there.