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Problems Creating a New Partition
I have a Hitachi 500 GB Hard Drive and it won't let me create a new partition.
I want to dual boot Vista and Leopard, so I'm trying to make a new 50 GB partition out of my main hard drive which carries all of my files at this point. I resize it and then restart and it says it's doing everything, but then I go back to windows and it says it's normal NTFS 500 GB hard drive.. There isn't anything new there. I have no clue what to do :S I'm using Acronis Disk Director Suite. Help me out here? :S
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Re: Problems Creating a New Partition
Resizing MAY require you have enough free space to do the task. Also, on the utility I use, the actual resizing takes place during reboot, which you must do just after setting your resize options.
The steps are; resize first creating a free/unused partition, reboot, then format the new partition. I use Partition Magic on my home PC, a very good utility for this task IMHO.
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07-07-2008, 02:01 PM
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Re: Problems Creating a New Partition
I don't know too much about the leopard file system, but isn't it completely different then the windows NTFS or FAT32 file systems? Maybe it isn't possible to put a windows and mac file system on the same drive even if they are different partitions. Also if you have already formatted the 50GB to the mac file system it wouldn't show up in the windows operating system at all.
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07-07-2008, 03:17 PM
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Re: Problems Creating a New Partition
Nah. You can run Leopard on FAT32. It is possible to run Mac OS on a PC.. And yes, it is possible to put them on different partitions. And I just can't make a 50 GB partition.. It doesn't have ANY mac stuff on it at all.. Its just like making a new partition and it won't work..
And I do have enough free space.. I have like.. 328 GB Free Space. It requires reboot to make the new partition and then when I do reboot, it says it's doing everything and then windows pops up and nothing is different.
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