Replacing Boot - Can't Delete "Users" Folder on Secondary Drive

[mintlivedotcom]

I tried to replace the stock 160GB drive in my PM with a fast Raptor drive, but am having difficulties. I used Disk Utility to erase the 160GB secondary drive, but it erases everything but the Users folder (45GB!!!). What can I do?

[Linkjeniero]

I tried to replace the stock 160GB drive in my PM with a fast Raptor drive, but am having difficulties. I used Disk Utility to erase the 160GB secondary drive, but it erases everything but the Users folder (45GB!!!). What can I do?

Does is say why can't it be erased?

[mintlivedotcom]

An error message pops up:

Sorry, the operation could not be completed because and unexpected error has occurred (Error code -122).

[Duff-Man]

Duff-Man says....I wonder if we have the whole story here as this sounds a bit odd. What exactly did you do with the new drive, like I mean did you format it, install the OS and apps etc you wanted....or restore to it from a back-up...or try to "drag and drop" copy....knowing what you did may help diagnose the problem.

If you absolutely sure you've done everything "properly" and really don't need what is on that other drive, try booting from your OS X install cd and running Disk Utility and try formatting from there.....oh yeah!

[snickelfritz]

Is the 160GB on the same IDE channel(slaved) as the new Raptor? If so, place them on independent channels.
My first instinct would be to disconnect the new drive, boot from the OSX CD/DVD and use the Disk Utility on the CD/DVD to format the stock drive. Shutdown, install the new drive and boot from it.

GL

[mintlivedotcom]

How do I place them on diff. channels?

[Mechcozmo]

Is the 160GB on the same IDE channel(slaved) as the new Raptor? If so, place them on independent channels.
My first instinct would be to disconnect the new drive, boot from the OSX CD/DVD and use the Disk Utility on the CD/DVD to format the stock drive. Shutdown, install the new drive and boot from it.

GL


SATA doesn't have this problem.

[mduser63]

Could this be a permissions problem? I seem to remember that once when I installed OS X on a new drive and booted from it, I was unable to access some of the stuff on the old boot drive when booting from the new one. Running chmod from the terminal and giving access privileges to everyone cleared things up. You might try opening up terminal and doing the following:

cd /Volumes/<name of your old drive>
sudo chmod a+rwx Users

sudo will ask for your password, type your administrator password. Then try deleting Users. Another way to delete Users at this point might be to use the rm command in terminal.

Be careful using rm. If you don't know what you're doing, or make a typo when using it, there's a chance that you might erase important stuff that you didn't mean to erase.