How to Make a 2nd Partition on MacBook Pro..?

fab5freddy said:

I have a Macbook Pro with my 120 GB drive half full
& am running Tiger 10.4.11

I would like to make a second partition with the new Leopard 10.5.2 on it...

Can i make the second partition on the fly..?
Or do i have to nuke the entire drive and re-partition with 2 parts...?

thanks! FF

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TheStu said:

Do you have an external hard drive handy?

Or... if you have the leopard install disk handy that could do the trick too.

Drop in the Leopard install disk. Then, don't install it, instead, go to the menubar up top and choose Disk Utility from the Applications menu. This will let you dynamically (non-destructively) partition your disk.

Then, just install Leopard in the new partition.

Perhaps call them Tiger and Leopard to avoid confusion.

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skir0987 said:

Can someone confirm that you can actually dynamically partition a hard drive from the Leopard install disk? I don't want to risk losing all my data

Shep

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Whorehay said:

You can. I've done it. Still back up your stuff though.

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Ol!ver said:

Maybe I'm being a bit dense, but Disk Utility gives the impression that it is going to erase the existing partition.

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