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Snow Leopard & Lion Partitions on Same HD Question
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<blockquote data-quote="Jaygray" data-source="post: 1274786" data-attributes="member: 50033"><p>Just a follow up on my progress with this. So far, my transition has been smooth. </p><p></p><p>I booted from a CD and ran Disk Utility. Tried to partition the drive and it failed. Ran "Repair Disk" and tried the partition again. Worked this time. Took a couple hours to compact the Snow Leopard partition. When it was done, I had SL running in a 300gb partition and a blank 200gb partition. Installed Lion to the new partition. I can now boot to either OS. I've basically got Lion set up the way I want it. When one OS is running, you can still view the other OS as a drive in Finder.</p><p></p><p>A couple notes on software compatibility...</p><p></p><p>Thus far Microsoft Office 2011 has worked fine. Despite all the negative reports, I've had no issues at all.</p><p></p><p>I've stuck with Acrobat 9 for quite a while now, as Acrobat X would not play well with an old 11x17 printer I have. I was a little concerned about this, but so far it turns out Acrobat 9 is Lion compatible.</p><p></p><p>I have sufficient free space on the drive, so I'll probably leave the SL partition in place for the time being. No reason to remove it until I need the space.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaygray, post: 1274786, member: 50033"] Just a follow up on my progress with this. So far, my transition has been smooth. I booted from a CD and ran Disk Utility. Tried to partition the drive and it failed. Ran "Repair Disk" and tried the partition again. Worked this time. Took a couple hours to compact the Snow Leopard partition. When it was done, I had SL running in a 300gb partition and a blank 200gb partition. Installed Lion to the new partition. I can now boot to either OS. I've basically got Lion set up the way I want it. When one OS is running, you can still view the other OS as a drive in Finder. A couple notes on software compatibility... Thus far Microsoft Office 2011 has worked fine. Despite all the negative reports, I've had no issues at all. I've stuck with Acrobat 9 for quite a while now, as Acrobat X would not play well with an old 11x17 printer I have. I was a little concerned about this, but so far it turns out Acrobat 9 is Lion compatible. I have sufficient free space on the drive, so I'll probably leave the SL partition in place for the time being. No reason to remove it until I need the space. [/QUOTE]
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