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Hello there
I am using a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with a 320GB Hitachi drive. My current partition plan is pretty messed up and I want to fix it but I am not able to.
The first thing I did was install the Mac OS X DVD which came with my computer in order to use Disk Utility from there hoping I can repartition the Macintosh HD (main) partition without losing any data, but that doesn't seem to be working.
This is what my current volume scheme looks like:
My hard drive is partitioned into three partitions: Macintosh HD, Macintosh HD 2 and UNUSED. Macintosh HD has Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on it, which is my main partition and the one I have all the data stored on (movies, music, etc.). Macintosh HD 2 has another version of Mac OS X on it which I don't care to lose if need be. UNUSED used to be a Boot Camp partition which I partitioned manually since Boot Camp Assisant didn't want to work for me, and then I deleted that partition hoping I can use this free space (about 42GB) in order to expand/extend, whatever you call it, the main Macintosh HD partition, but that doesn't seem to work.
Basically what I want to do is restore all the space into Macintosh HD, use Boot Camp Assisant to create a Boot Camp partition and finally create another partition (Mac OS X Extended Journaled) and install that 'other' version of Mac OS X I want.
Is there a way to do this without losing the data I have at the moment?
Macintosh HD: 241.82GB
Macintosh HD 2: 35.57GB
UNUSED: 42.21GB
I Googled and I found that one way to do this is to use Gparted, but I am not even sure how to use it. It says GParted live so I am assuming it should be installed to a flash drive and booted from using rEFIT?
Thanks guys. If my problem/issue isn't clear, please let me know and I will try to rephrase it.
I am using a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with a 320GB Hitachi drive. My current partition plan is pretty messed up and I want to fix it but I am not able to.
The first thing I did was install the Mac OS X DVD which came with my computer in order to use Disk Utility from there hoping I can repartition the Macintosh HD (main) partition without losing any data, but that doesn't seem to be working.
This is what my current volume scheme looks like:
My hard drive is partitioned into three partitions: Macintosh HD, Macintosh HD 2 and UNUSED. Macintosh HD has Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4 on it, which is my main partition and the one I have all the data stored on (movies, music, etc.). Macintosh HD 2 has another version of Mac OS X on it which I don't care to lose if need be. UNUSED used to be a Boot Camp partition which I partitioned manually since Boot Camp Assisant didn't want to work for me, and then I deleted that partition hoping I can use this free space (about 42GB) in order to expand/extend, whatever you call it, the main Macintosh HD partition, but that doesn't seem to work.
Basically what I want to do is restore all the space into Macintosh HD, use Boot Camp Assisant to create a Boot Camp partition and finally create another partition (Mac OS X Extended Journaled) and install that 'other' version of Mac OS X I want.
Is there a way to do this without losing the data I have at the moment?
Macintosh HD: 241.82GB
Macintosh HD 2: 35.57GB
UNUSED: 42.21GB
I Googled and I found that one way to do this is to use Gparted, but I am not even sure how to use it. It says GParted live so I am assuming it should be installed to a flash drive and booted from using rEFIT?
Thanks guys. If my problem/issue isn't clear, please let me know and I will try to rephrase it.