[Cung]

Hello- I recenlty acquired a used ibook OSX jag, it came with a partioned hard drive..how can I un-partion it.I like having just 1 main hard drive..I went to disk utility and deleted the second drive..but after I do that the drive re-appears..help please

[drmbb2]

Originally posted by Cung:
Hello- I recenlty acquired a used ibook OSX jag, it came with a partioned hard drive..how can I un-partion it.I like having just 1 main hard drive..I went to disk utility and deleted the second drive..but after I do that the drive re-appears..help please

You can't partition a drive that is in use, so the only way to acheive this is to start over from scratch. That is, boot from your OS X install CD, use the disk utility to remove the partitions and then reformat the drive, then re-install. Note that this will wipe your drive clean, so be sure to back up anything that your can't restore from original sources (i.e. all your music, photos, work files, etc)

[Mr. Blur]

if you get FWB Partition Toolkit and boot from its bootable cd (or make your own bootable cd) you should be able to resize your partition to use the entire drive.....

[Cung]

thanks for the info guys!