Help lost Hard drive space!

[macbook pro i5]

Well recently I decided that I wanted OS X Snow leopard because lion was to slow so I installed Snow Leopard on a new partition and I deleted the old lion partition,but now I cant drag the slider to get all my free space back! How can I get it back?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You have to do a clean install of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and delete the entire HDD via the following steps:

How to format a new HDD to install Mac OS X onto (or make a bootable copy onto)​

You can only resize from the end of a partition.
You cannot move the starting point of a partition.

 

[macbook pro i5]

You have to do a clean install of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and delete the entire HDD via the following steps:

How to format a new HDD to install Mac OS X onto (or make a bootable copy onto)​

You can only resize from the end of a partition.
You cannot move the starting point of a partition.

So i have to put my osx snow leopard disk in go to disk utility delete the whole partition then reinstall?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

So i have to put my osx snow leopard disk in go to disk utility delete the whole partition then reinstall?

Yes.

Guide on how to use Disk Utility from the restore / installation DVD.​