formatting free space on ntfs drive to HFS+

[CrAkD]

I have a hard drive that had 2 ntfs partitions. I deleted one of the ntfs partitions in windows so now half the drive is free space but disk utility wont touch it without formatting the other partition. is there a 3rd party osx app i can use to turn this into a usable hfs+ drive?

 

[satcomer]

I have a hard drive that had 2 ntfs partitions. I deleted one of the ntfs partitions in windows so now half the drive is free space but disk utility wont touch it without formatting the other partition. is there a 3rd party osx app i can use to turn this into a usable hfs+ drive?

If you are at home format the HFS+ and make windows see that format by installing MacDrive on the Windows whatever you have box.

 

[CrAkD]

If you are at home format the HFS+ and make windows see that format by installing MacDrive on the Windows whatever you have box.

well that wont work because the windows partition on the drive is a windows boot partition so I need to keep it intact.

 

[dimme]

I think the safest thing is to backup everything (both windows & Mac partitions) to another drive and reformat then restore.

 

[CrAkD]

Yeah I was trying that for some reason the windows 7 backup thing won't run. I backed up all the files. But I won't be able to restore....I guess I'll keep trying to get the backup system image in windows to work

 

[dimme]

Yeah I was trying that for some reason the windows 7 backup thing won't run. I backed up all the files. But I won't be able to restore....I guess I'll keep trying to get the backup system image in windows to work

Try this to back up your windows partition.http://twocanoes.com/winclone/
It works great, but follow the specific instructions if you make the partition smaller.

 

[CrAkD]

thanks for the replys! I asked on another forum and someone suggested parted magic and that worked perfectly without having to format! thanks again!