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    Combining startup disk with another partition

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by emagination, Aug 31, 2008.

  1. emagination

    emagination Notebook Geek

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    I had a botched first attempt at installing Vista with Boot Camp. Long story short I wound up having to remove the windows partition via the Vista install DVD to get it to load OSX again and decided I would attempt with XP at a later time.

    This has left me with the 40 GB of space I formatted for wndows still as a separate partition. I reformatted it via diskutil as OS X Journaled hoping an option to combine the partitions would magically appear but to no avail. At least it's a usable partition now but I really don't want the extra partition. I tried running the Boot Camp assistant again and when I try to advance forward it tells me that the startup disk is unable to be partitioned or combined into a single partition.

    I was basically hoping it would be like the Vista disk manager (God forbid that I would want OS X to do anything like windows) where you can reformat a partition into unallocated space and then combine it with whatever other partition you want. Is there a way to do this in OS X?
     
    emagination, Aug 31, 2008
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  2. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    If the Boot Camp Assistant is unable to recombine the partitions, you may need to do a Time Machine backup, wipe the drive, and then restore.
     
    Khris, Aug 31, 2008
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