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<blockquote data-quote="dannnnn" data-source="post: 986354" data-attributes="member: 141284"><p>hi there,</p><p></p><p>i have a current model macbook pro 13.3" running osx 10.6.2. it is my first mac and it is a great machine! however the standard 250gb hard drive is a little on the small side for me, so i purchased a 500gb hard drive as an upgrade.</p><p></p><p>to get my data from the old 250gb drive to the new 500gb drive i used a borrowed <a href="http://www.diskology.com/djstandard.html" target="_blank">diskjockey pro</a> which copies the data across sector by sector to make an exact image - very easy! after using this tool i installed the 500gb hard drive and the machine booted up first time and works just like it did before.</p><p></p><p>unfortunately, when i try to create a new partition in OSX's disk utility to take advantage of the extra space i get an error. it says 'partition failed with the error: the chosen file size is not valid for the chosen filesystem'. if i try to resize the existing partition to use up all of the available space i get a different error. it says 'partition failed with the error: mediakit reports partition (map) too small'. </p><p></p><p>so at the moment i can't figure out a way of using the extra 250gb of space!</p><p></p><p>it seems that this might be because of the way i copied the drive - because it copied everything off the 250gb drive sector by sector the partition table on the 500gb drive must think it is a 250gb drive?? indeed in the support section of the diskjockey website they say that it <a href="http://www.diskology.com/support.html" target="_blank">can be a problem</a> and they offer a pretty straightforward method for fixing this with a windows machine... but nothing for a mac. grr, frustrating! but so easy to fix on a windows machine.</p><p></p><p>sooooo.. can anyone help me please?? how do i fix up the partition table on this mac!?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dannnnn, post: 986354, member: 141284"] hi there, i have a current model macbook pro 13.3" running osx 10.6.2. it is my first mac and it is a great machine! however the standard 250gb hard drive is a little on the small side for me, so i purchased a 500gb hard drive as an upgrade. to get my data from the old 250gb drive to the new 500gb drive i used a borrowed [url=http://www.diskology.com/djstandard.html]diskjockey pro[/url] which copies the data across sector by sector to make an exact image - very easy! after using this tool i installed the 500gb hard drive and the machine booted up first time and works just like it did before. unfortunately, when i try to create a new partition in OSX's disk utility to take advantage of the extra space i get an error. it says 'partition failed with the error: the chosen file size is not valid for the chosen filesystem'. if i try to resize the existing partition to use up all of the available space i get a different error. it says 'partition failed with the error: mediakit reports partition (map) too small'. so at the moment i can't figure out a way of using the extra 250gb of space! it seems that this might be because of the way i copied the drive - because it copied everything off the 250gb drive sector by sector the partition table on the 500gb drive must think it is a 250gb drive?? indeed in the support section of the diskjockey website they say that it [url=http://www.diskology.com/support.html]can be a problem[/url] and they offer a pretty straightforward method for fixing this with a windows machine... but nothing for a mac. grr, frustrating! but so easy to fix on a windows machine. sooooo.. can anyone help me please?? how do i fix up the partition table on this mac!? [/QUOTE]
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