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Boot Camp and Partitioning problem
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<blockquote data-quote="ukchucktown" data-source="post: 940254" data-attributes="member: 129039"><p>How comfortable are you opening a terminal window and using the command line? Anytime you are messing with partitions it's a good idea to backup.</p><p></p><p>I would start by opening a terminal and running "diskutil list" to get the partition order and types on your problem disk. Paste the output from "diskutil list" then if all looks okay you can try and merge the partitions using diskutil from the command-line. Don't try it with the command I demonstrated, if your partition order is different, you will lose your data.</p><p></p><p>List partitions:</p><p>[CODE]</p><p>diskutil list</p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>Merge partitions 2 and 3 keeping partition 2 intact if file system is HPS+</p><p>[CODE]</p><p>sudo diskutil mergePartitions disk0s2 disk0s3</p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>The other option is use something like a gparted CD to boot your system but that's pretty advanced and could mess up your system if you don't know your way around disk partiioning, MBR and EFI.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ukchucktown, post: 940254, member: 129039"] How comfortable are you opening a terminal window and using the command line? Anytime you are messing with partitions it's a good idea to backup. I would start by opening a terminal and running "diskutil list" to get the partition order and types on your problem disk. Paste the output from "diskutil list" then if all looks okay you can try and merge the partitions using diskutil from the command-line. Don't try it with the command I demonstrated, if your partition order is different, you will lose your data. List partitions: [CODE] diskutil list [/CODE] Merge partitions 2 and 3 keeping partition 2 intact if file system is HPS+ [CODE] sudo diskutil mergePartitions disk0s2 disk0s3 [/CODE] The other option is use something like a gparted CD to boot your system but that's pretty advanced and could mess up your system if you don't know your way around disk partiioning, MBR and EFI. [/QUOTE]
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