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    Mac HD partitioning

    Friend of mine came over today...he had a 12G HDD in his G3 iMac, and we were replacing the drive w/ a 30G. We tried a few programs to clone the drive, but they wouldn't read the Mac partition, so I hooked it up to a hardware HDD cloning machine I had access to.

    We put the new 30G drive in the place of the 12G, and everything worked fine...except...the disk space. The OS (OSX) recognized that the DRIVE was 30G, but would only see the one partition. We tried using the built in disk manager to partiton the HDD, but it wouldn't allow us (options were grayed out). Any ideas on how to add partitions w/ the remaining space?
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    IMO;

    1. remove the HDD

    2. install it in a PC

    3. use the MAC for a boat anchor



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      Good one Dr M
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        Well, It would be a really nice Boat anchor, but you can start the mac from the OSX install CD and partition the rest of the drive frome there
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        • #5
          Try using Carbon Copy Cloner and Apple System Restore. http://www.bombich.com/mactips/asrx.html

          You basically make a drive image of the 12GB HD, then transfer it over to the 30GB and "restore the system".

          We use radmind here, but that would even more complicated to setup for just doing 1 computer.

          If you instead just want to partition the drives without redoing it all try the command line version of the Disk Utility:
          diskutil

          I've found using the command line stuff on OS X is much easier, but I came into OS X from Linux.
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          • #6
            what's a mac? Isn't that a hamburger?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by TnT
              Try using Carbon Copy Cloner and Apple System Restore. http://www.bombich.com/mactips/asrx.html

              You basically make a drive image of the 12GB HD, then transfer it over to the 30GB and "restore the system".

              We use radmind here, but that would even more complicated to setup for just doing 1 computer.

              If you instead just want to partition the drives without redoing it all try the command line version of the Disk Utility:
              diskutil

              I've found using the command line stuff on OS X is much easier, but I came into OS X from Linux.
              Yup, Carbon Copy is pretty straightforward. (I wish Powerquest added added Mac support to its products...)

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