partitions

I just bought a 2TB SSD to move both mine and my partner's Photos libraries to. I will choose the 'Download Originals' option within both libraries, as I eventually want to stop using iCloud to store our photos and move to either Carbon Copy Cloner or Time Machine to back up the originals. Each...

Hey all, I had a test partition on my old 16" 2019 Intel MacBook Pro I was using. Now I want to get rid of it, but I can't do the "-" on it to delete. The error I'm seeing is "You can't remove this volume because the preceding volume can't be resized." I've never had issues deleting partitions...

This portion, relating to a partition matter, has already been solved. The current problem is on post #4. I recently purchased a G4 Mac from Craigslist. I am happy with the machine but there is one thing that bugs me at the moment. Disk Utility shows that I have about 20GB of unpartitioned free...

When installing a macOS, to a 1TB drive, I was thinking that it might be an advantages to partition the drive into two, so that the 1st partition is 100GB and the 2nd 900GB. The purpose -as i think of it- is to have the OS in its dedicated partition and keep the users working files to a...

The logic board on my Mac Book Pro is bad. I can occasionally get it to work for ~5 minutes at a time. I need my files so I removed the hard drive and hooked it up to a Windows PC (I do not have another Mac). Using HFSExplorer, I was able to see the drive and a few partitions. However, I am not...

For work i have a ssd prepped with 10.11 and 10.13 to service/diagnose a wide arrange of Macs. I also have a 3rd partition with folders and apps which i can use on both OS installs. What i like to create is 1 partition with installed apps which i can use on multiple OS system, so regardless of...

Hi! I am running macOS High Sierra on my mid 2014 Macbook Pro. When I first got it, I had planned on dual booting with Windows 7, but I opted not to after all. I partitioned my hard drive so I could do both. I had done it in some format where I couldn't put files over a certain size on it and...

Hi all My late 27" Late 2013 imac (i5 - 8gb ram) - is insanely slow - I think it's the 1gb fusion drive: Esp. things like opening mails, or just having it open the emoj-window takes ages - so no smiies :D Anyways, I'm considering my options here: 1) I could throw in more ram, which is...

So, i had a catastrophic day today trying to install Windows on my Imac using bootcamp. First of all after following all the steps in bootcamp, the Bootcamp partition i made on the Imac would not accept my Windows 10 install and i found no reason for it. Searched the internet for hours and could...

I tried to put a clean install of OS 10.12 on my Mac. I did this by making another partition in DU, then installing OS 10.12 on it using the installer you can find download on the App Store, planning to delete the original partition. But, for some reason, in Disk Utility, I can't seem to delete...

I did not know that modifying the partitions when you have a bootcamp partition setup can screw it up. It did. I tried some different things I found online, but I think I am making it worse. At one point the drive showed back up when holding down alt restarting, but when I selected it I got a...

Greetings All! I am attempting to install Windows 7 on my 2011 iMac running Yosemite. I had just finished a clean install of Yosemite on a freshly installed brand new hard drive. Running Bootcamp, I got the error "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition". Using...

As you can see in this thread http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what-to-do-when-i-deleted-os-x-and-now-i-only-have-windows-8-1.1920270/#post-21933398 I have completely deleted OS X Yosemite and only have Windows left. Now that I'm quite fed up with Windows and want to use my Macbook Air for...