[Sachmo]

I was running tiger, partitioned my harddrive and installed leopard on it, then deleted the partition with tiger on it, but now i cant make leopard into the whole disk! in disk utility it shows a ton of free space on top of leopards disk and wont let me merge, delete or anything. ive been all over looking for solutions for this but i still cant get it. Do i have to use the boot disk to do this or is there any other way? I even installed applications like ipartition and it was acting like they both were boot disks saying that they couldnt be messed with. please help

[bballe336]

Why didn't you just do an upgrade install? As far as I know you'll need to completely reformat the drive to have it become 1 partition.

[Maflynn]

get ipartition to do what you want, or just reinstall the OS and repartition the drive in the process.

[Simon]

1) clone to another drive with Disk Utility > Restore (select erase destination)
2) format the drive, chose only one partition
3) use Disk Utility > Restore to clone back to the internal drive
4) next time don't partition and save yourself this kind of pain