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Disk Utility Help???
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Hello  . I recently deleted my 20 gig partition of windows on my iMac. And I want to resize my HD to it's maximum capacity. But when I drag the box and click apply, After a few minutes I get: "Partition failed with the error: Filesystem verify or repair failed". Verifying comes out to the same error. Is there ANYTHING I can do? Can I bring back my original size disk with the My leopard install cd and still have my data? Pleas somebody help
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You can't resize it without reformatting. But that is no big deal because you have full backup of your drive, right?!
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I don't have a storage device big enough to hold what i wish to back up. I'm planing on getting an external drive today or sometime this week. Once I do get one...where do I go from there?
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Plug in the new drive, Firewire or USB, go right back to Disk Utility. You will probably have to format a new drive, choose Erase, HFS+ Journaled. Then go to Restore, select Source and Destination, that will copy everything onto the new drive. Then you can erase your old drive and do the whole process in reverse!
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I got the new usb drive and formated it. Couldn't I just drag my desired files to the drive and copy them back over once I format my hard disk?
(Last edited by joe14; Dec 4, 2007 at 09:02 PM.
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Yes, but.... Your Home directory contains all of your personal stuff. So you could back that up to a thumb drive or a small hard drive. But then you would need to reinstall your System, which isn't horrible, just time consuming.
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OK I did it. Referring to apples support pages. I transferred my user account and everything. A successful backup. Thank you
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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The only way I know of to resize your startup drive's OS X partition to use the whole drive after getting rid of Boot Camp is to use the Boot Camp Utility to "restore startup disk to a single partition." If you use any other method, you're stuck. Plus it's quite possible that using Disk Utility to delete the Windows partition could corrupt some important background data, in the partition table, in the descriptor table, or other scary data structure.
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Glenn -----
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