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03-18-2009, 05:51 AM
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drive partitioning for osx86 ipc distro
hi all,
i have an acer aspire 5730 with two partitions -- c: with vista on it and a d: data partition. both are formatted ntfs. what i'd like to do is put osx on the second (data) partition and have dual-boot between vista and osx, but be able to format the second partition as hfs+ without fubaring my vista partition. is there a way to do this? i ran leopard setup and within disk utility, any options to manipulate the second partion are greyed out. any help is appreciated. syd 
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03-18-2009, 03:45 PM
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isn't there an option to erase that partition???
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual E2140 1.6 GHz. Graphics: Intel(R) 82945G (128 MB). Board: Asus P5GC-TVM/S Chipset: Intel Lakeport-G i945GC. HDD: 232 Gb S-ATA Samsung Version 10.6.2 32bit. Kernel: Vanilla. Audio: VoodooHDA 0.2.2 with prefpane. Video: Stock GMA. PS2 fix: VoodooPS2 USB 2 not working Acer Aspire 4530-6823 CPU: AMD Athlon™ X2 QL-62 2.0GHz. Graphics: Integrated GeForce® 9100M G. Chipset: nForce® MCP77MH.
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03-25-2009, 05:13 PM
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No..
Nope. The individual partitions are greyed out. My only option is to erase and re(format/partition) the entire drive, which I'd like to avoid if possible. Does it have to do with my formerly using Wubi so I could run Ubuntu on that second partition? I uninstalled Wubi before attempting to load OSX.
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03-25-2009, 05:54 PM
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get an Ubuntu livecd and use gparted to erase that partition, and format it like FAT32 or hfs if you can, and then try again with leopard disk
CPU: Intel Pentium Dual E2140 1.6 GHz. Graphics: Intel(R) 82945G (128 MB). Board: Asus P5GC-TVM/S Chipset: Intel Lakeport-G i945GC. HDD: 232 Gb S-ATA Samsung Version 10.6.2 32bit. Kernel: Vanilla. Audio: VoodooHDA 0.2.2 with prefpane. Video: Stock GMA. PS2 fix: VoodooPS2 USB 2 not working Acer Aspire 4530-6823 CPU: AMD Athlon™ X2 QL-62 2.0GHz. Graphics: Integrated GeForce® 9100M G. Chipset: nForce® MCP77MH.
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03-25-2009, 05:54 PM
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Try to format second partition with FAT system using Vista or Ubuntu Live CD or else. NTFS partitions created by Vista are sometimes "locked" - dunno why.
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