Partition Help

[Finlandboy]

Ok so im trying to add a small partition to my internal hard drive.

so as usual i opened up disk utility and went to add a partition to my hhd and i get this error.

i so tried to Verify the disk and i get this:

any ideas on what to do???

 

[maflynn]

Are you booting off the hard disk you're trying to alter? You cannot boot up off your main hard drive and then try to repartition it.

Secondly do you have a backup of your data/system? Doing any partition work, really means you should have a backup. Mostly because the task of repartitioning a drive can be destructive, i.e., the partitions get formatted.

Reboot and run disk utility and see if those errors continue. A partition process may have started and failed to finish correctly, or may just be that you tried to alter the drive while it was locked.

 

[brendu]

try running the partitioner in disk utility with the macosx install disk