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unpartition an hard drive?
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tabarnak
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Oct 8, 2003, 09:30 AM
 
i have this 30gb hd separated in 2 partitions. i don't want that anymore when i'll install panther.

i want to backup all my stuff to an external 120Gb hd that i have. can i do a clean install of panther on the old one and then put my home folder back in? how can i import my stuff like pictures for iphoto, email accounts, transmit username/password, bookmarks, etc..

or is it possible to join the 2 partition without reformatting? i doubt but who knows...
     
CatOne
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Oct 8, 2003, 11:51 AM
 
Originally posted by tabarnak:
i have this 30gb hd separated in 2 partitions. i don't want that anymore when i'll install panther.

i want to backup all my stuff to an external 120Gb hd that i have. can i do a clean install of panther on the old one and then put my home folder back in? how can i import my stuff like pictures for iphoto, email accounts, transmit username/password, bookmarks, etc..

or is it possible to join the 2 partition without reformatting? i doubt but who knows...
Ya gotta reformat.
     
barbarian
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Oct 8, 2003, 01:22 PM
 
If your machine can boot OS 9 you can do it with this program:

http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html

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Also maybe I'm making this up, but I thought someone posted that Panther's Disk Utility allowed for departitioning (with destruction of the smaller partition)... can someone with Panther running check on this?
     
tabarnak  (op)
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Oct 8, 2003, 02:56 PM
 
after the reformat, what will i have to do to restore the settings like password in transmit, email accounts and stuff like that in panther?

thanks!
     
   
 
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