Partition without reinstall OS X

Hi,
I am looking for away to re-participate my hard drive without re-installing OS X.
I tried to mess around with the disk utility but apparently, there is no hope for me.
Any suggestion please? thank you.

 

I might be having the exact same problem as you. I messed around a little too much and successfully got rid of my windows partition but now I can't get the partition to rejoin the HD, instead I have a blank 40gb of space and the partition appears to still be there.

Sorry if I might be hijacking the thread, but that is not my intention. If anything I would like to know this as well cause as it stands, my only solution might be to reformat my entire HDD. :/


Edit: I'm such an idiot, and it makes an unbelievable first for me having solved my own computer problems.


And what do you mean by re-participate your HDD?

 

If you partitioned it as Mac OS X (Journaled), you could join it with the Macintosh HD. Or you could erase it, erase the partition completely, and then it would automatically rejoin your Macintosh HD.

 

There are 2 available programs that can partition at drive without formatting (non-destructive partitioning).

iPartition - Supports Boot Camp partitions

Drive Genius - Excellent program for HFS+ re-partitioning.

Hope that helps.

 

Ipartition is not free.

 

None of them are free

 

Yup, Disk utility did it fine for me. I resized it using the partition resizer and it worked fine.

 

Disk utility can partition. What where you doing? What are you trying to partition for?

 

None of these programs are free guys. Even if it's even Windows (that do non-destructive partition), all the good ones out there costs money.

The alternative method is utilizing Time machine, by repartitioning and then restoring afterwards. The bad part is that the bootcamp partition will be gone(if you have one) and will need something like Winclone to image/backup before repartitioning.

 

Try this

 

That's what i did a long time ago when windows setup decided to stop running and mac os x bootcamp manager decided it didn't want to delete this partition.

 

It works! Rep ya!
And now I ran into another problem.
I formatted the drive with 80gb OS X and the rest is another partition for data. After that, I want to install Vista via Bootcamp and it wont let me.
The message error is:

 

What format do you have it formatted as? You need it to be Mac OS Extended Journaled

 

Both of them are Mac OS Extended Journaled.

 

Check to see what your partition Map Scheme is. It should look like this


You will need to format it as GUID Partition table it is under the options button.

 

That's what I ended up doing, never knew you could just drag the OS X partition over the blank space and that = rejoin. Fantastic how it was so simple. Lucky I didn't do something else that might have been irreversible.

 

Apparently, everything is the same with yours.
Here's a capture for my screen.

 

Hmmm, I would just delete that partition, Install windows, then make a partition for your data after. I am guessing the problem is because Leopard is not on that partition, But who knows.

 

you didn't need 3rd party programs.. you can actually do that in Disk Utility...

as for your problem, Boot Camp likes to resize the main OSX partition for space for Windows... it appears you have unpartioned space after Data... you can use the + sign at the bottom of that partition page and add a new partition there formated HFS+ whatever and label it Windows... as an extra partition with no Data. I believe you can just boot off your Windows disc and tell it to format and install to that Windows partition that will will call an unknown format.... its also possible just booting off Windows disc and starting the install will see the unpartitioned space and let windows set up its own partition and format it there. I haven't actually tried it, but its supposed to work... i never fear to try something though, I never mess with any poartitioning without a complete backup, even if its working right, it can still mess up.

For a free way to partition and resize tons of different things, there are quite a few linux distros on CD you can boot off of and use gparted.. and resize most things (not HFS usually).

 

Try to resize the "Data partition" to make it fill the remaining square.