PowerBook Partition Problem

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
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.

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  • Reply 1 of 12
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    you need to start from scratch. a hard-drive cannot be 'de-partitionized'...
  • Reply 2 of 12
    123123 Posts: 278member
    [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.
  • Reply 3 of 12
    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]" />
  • Reply 4 of 12
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    [quote]Originally posted by 123:

    <strong>



    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.
  • Reply 5 of 12
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    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?
  • Reply 6 of 12
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    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.
  • Reply 7 of 12
    123123 Posts: 278member
    [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.
  • Reply 8 of 12
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    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.
  • Reply 9 of 12
    serranoserrano Posts: 1,806member
    I've heard some horror stores about partition toolkit. Backup your files, install from scratch.
  • Reply 10 of 12
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    [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">
  • Reply 11 of 12
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    [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.
  • Reply 12 of 12
    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.
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