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#589348 - 01/29/13 05:12 PM Re: Help! External HDD partiton recovery [Re: caincha]
MacBozo Nut Dood Registered: 04/20/02 Posts: 17471 Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida	Originally Posted By: caincha Originally Posted By: Jim_ It wasn't Tiger. Anytime you use DU to repartition it deletes the catalog. Sorry, but you can do a non-destructive repartition with Disk Utility on Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion without losing anything at all. But if you do that on Tiger you're screwed, that's my point. About the issue itself, I'll keep on looking to see if I can actually fix this the way I want (and won't be using that HDD until then). If not, I'll buy another HDD, what the heck... Disk Utility in Lion: _________________________
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#589365 - 01/29/13 07:44 PM Re: Help! External HDD partiton recovery [Re: caincha]
Jim_ aka Reboot Registered: 04/21/02 Posts: 12964 Loc: Columbus OH	You can enlarge a partition in DU by deleting one and adding it to the rest of the drive, but other than using BootCamp I don't know of a way to make smaller partitions without being destructive _________________________ AppleCentral Trivia MM-MCF Trivia Call the Doctor
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#589385 - 01/30/13 05:41 AM Re: Help! External HDD partiton recovery [Re: Jim_]
caincha Registered: 08/05/11 Posts: 25	Originally Posted By: Jim_ You can enlarge a partition in DU by deleting one and adding it to the rest of the drive As it seems (read it on the web) 10.5 -> 10.8 uses GUID and 10.4 uses Apple, that's why it got screwed up in my case...
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