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Partion without erasing HD?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Rome-Italy
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Hi,
Is it possible to create a partition (booting from the Leopard DVD), without erasing any files of my actual HD?
Many thanks!
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: New York, NY
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Yes and you don't even need to boot from the DVD. You can use Disk Utility while booted from the hard drive you're partitioning.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2004
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so there is no need to boot from the leopard dvd? thanks that's a great news.
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Minnesota
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Just to be safe, I would suggest you make a backup before doing this. Am a firm believer if s#&t happens.
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2000
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Yeah, that's good advice. Live repartitioning is a nice thing, but you should always back up first.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Hi again,
I don't know if somebody is interested, but I found a quick solution to my problem.
For sure quicker than cloning my HD, erasing it and copy the clone back.
I've bought a copy of iDefrag, used their bootable software CDMaker, defrag my HD in Compact mode and voila!
I was right away able to create my BootCamp partition and go ahead with the Windows XP installation.
Cheers
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle, Washington
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Originally Posted by bahia 
Hi again,
I don't know if somebody is interested, but I found a quick solution to my problem.
For sure quicker than cloning my HD, erasing it and copy the clone back.
I've bought a copy of iDefrag, used their bootable software CDMaker, defrag my HD in Compact mode and voila!
I was right away able to create my BootCamp partition and go ahead with the Windows XP installation.
Cheers
Spam?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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The other half of the context for bahia's latest post seems to be another thread. Basically, he was trying to partition as explained in this thread and got thwarted by free space fragmentation, so he used iDefrag and was able to do it — hence the kind of mysterious reference to iDefrag in this thread.
By the way, glad you got it working, bahia.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Rome-Italy
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No it's not spam..
I'm sorry I've posted in the wrong thread.
I guess that's why it may have look like spam..
Have a good day
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