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joeholl1979

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I purchased iPartition so I can expand my Bootcamp drive. I used the program to create a boot disk, and I started my iMac by holding down C...but it just shows the Apple logo and doesn't do anything else.

Has anyone used this software recently? Any advice?
 
joeholl1979 said:
I purchased iPartition so I can expand my Bootcamp drive. I used the program to create a boot disk, and I started my iMac by holding down C...but it just shows the Apple logo and doesn't do anything else.

Has anyone used this software recently? Any advice?
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Hold Command -v at startup, what does the text say?

Command -v = Verbose mode

Edit: I read your post again, sorry you were talking about the DVD/CD, if you get this this probably tells you the Bootdisk you created is not bootable on your system.

This is most likely due to the wrong Installer, you need to download the correct one for your machine using Recovery, a standalone Installer which you buy for instance many times does not work.
Many machines have custom installs, this will probably be solved in a 10.8.3 update.
 
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justperry said:
So, it is working now, you booted into OS X, not from a DVD/CD?
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No, I can't get it to work. I made the bootable DVD from the iPartition software, but the DVD doesn't boot...it just goes to the Apple logo and hangs
 
joeholl1979 said:
A bunch of words came up on a black screen then it went to OSX log in
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joeholl1979 said:
No, I can't get it to work. I made the bootable DVD from the iPartition software, but the DVD doesn't boot...it just goes to the Apple logo and hangs
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:confused:

You really don't make sense, look into your last two Posts, Bold, you said you logged in, into what?
I did not know iPartion could make a bootable drive, that's new to me.
 
justperry said:
This is most likely due to the wrong Installer, you need to download the correct one for your machine using Recovery, a standalone Installer which you buy for instance many times does not work.
Many machines have custom installs, this will probably be solved in a 10.8.3 update.
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How do I download the installer in Recovery?
 
justperry said:
Create a bootable Lion install drive for newer Macs

This also works on Mountain Lion.
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This is excellent information, thank you! Using that article, I created a USB drive with OSX running off of it, and I have the files saved to install/reinstall OSX whenever necessary instead of waiting for Recovery to download!

However, When I attempted to run iPartition from it, it gave me the error "Partition was unable to get write access to the device “APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0” (disk1). This may mean the device is write protected, that you do not have permission to access it, or that it is in use by something else."
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So now I've done all of this work and purchased this software, and I STILL cannot resize my partitions with it. With all the time and money I've spent on this process, I wish I would have just deleted the Bootcamp partition and reinstalled...I just didn't want to worry about the files I already have saved on that partition.

What am I doing wrong now?
 
Why are you asking for support for iPartition here, rather than from the company you paid money to? I think that's the first mistake.
 
joeholl1979 said:
This is excellent information, thank you! Using that article, I created a USB drive with OSX running off of it, and I have the files saved to install/reinstall OSX whenever necessary instead of waiting for Recovery to download!

However, When I attempted to run iPartition from it, it gave me the error "Partition was unable to get write access to the device “APPLE HDD WDC WD10EALX-408EA0” (disk1). This may mean the device is write protected, that you do not have permission to access it, or that it is in use by something else."
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So now I've done all of this work and purchased this software, and I STILL cannot resize my partitions with it. With all the time and money I've spent on this process, I wish I would have just deleted the Bootcamp partition and reinstalled...I just didn't want to worry about the files I already have saved on that partition.

What am I doing wrong now?
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Is the Disk encrypted with filevault 2, if so switch it off first and retry.

Edit: I looked at the screenshot, do you have Fusion drive, if so that might be the problem.
 
justperry said:
Is the Disk encrypted with filevault 2, if so switch it off first and retry.

Edit: I looked at the screenshot, do you have Fusion drive, if so that might be the problem.
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How do I find out if the disk is encrypted?
 
joeholl1979 said:
How do I find out if the disk is encrypted?
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Go to the Security & Privacy Preference Pane and then the FileVault tab.

But, I as asked "Edit: I looked at the screenshot, do you have Fusion drive, if so that might be the problem"

Do you have fusion drive, does the drive in Info shows as a 1.128 TB disk?

Edit: Oh, and make a screenshot of Disk Utility, if it's a fusion drive it will show there.
 
justperry said:
Go to the Security & Privacy Preference Pane and then the FileVault tab.

But, I as asked "Edit: I looked at the screenshot, do you have Fusion drive, if so that might be the problem"

Do you have fusion drive, does the drive in Info shows as a 1.128 TB disk?
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Yes, I have the Fusion Drive
 
Yes, it is fused. I was just trying to resize the main partition smaller and make the Bootcamp partition bigger.
 
joeholl1979 said:
Yes, it is fused. I was just trying to resize the main partition smaller and make the Bootcamp partition bigger.
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If iPartition is not updated and I doubt they have support for fused drives it's worthless, you can't use it, contact them and ask them, if it's not supported try to ask back your money.
 
I didn't think that Boot Camp Assistant was working at all on "fusion" drives. So how was this configured from the beginning? Apple core storage command line tools aren't documented adequately to even guess at how to resize HFSJ/X, then shrink specifically the PV on the hard drive so that there's more space to grow the Bootcamp partition.

Therefore I don't see how a 3rd party can do this right now. I couldn't even do it on the command line.
 
murphychris said:
I didn't think that Boot Camp Assistant was working at all on "fusion" drives. So how was this configured from the beginning? Apple core storage command line tools aren't documented adequately to even guess at how to resize HFSJ/X, then shrink specifically the PV on the hard drive so that there's more space to grow the Bootcamp partition.

Therefore I don't see how a 3rd party can do this right now. I couldn't even do it on the command line.
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I used Bootcamp Assistant to configure the drive. I've read that it doesn't work on the 3TB drives.
 
murphychris said:
I didn't think that Boot Camp Assistant was working at all on "fusion" drives. So how was this configured from the beginning? Apple core storage command line tools aren't documented adequately to even guess at how to resize HFSJ/X, then shrink specifically the PV on the hard drive so that there's more space to grow the Bootcamp partition.

Therefore I don't see how a 3rd party can do this right now. I couldn't even do it on the command line.
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It does on the 1TB drive and the 128 SSD but for now not on the 3 TB+SSD, but there are signs this will be possible in 10.8.3.
And as I said before, iPartition very likely does not have this built in, so it is worthless.
 
Here's a screenshot of my disk utility. I have e-mailed the customer support to ask for a refund for iPartition, because It's probably true that it's not compatible with Fusion drives.

Unfortunately, I e-mailed them before and it takes days to respond.

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joeholl1979 said:
Here's a screenshot of my disk utility. I have e-mailed the customer support to ask for a refund for iPartition, because It's probably true that it's not compatible with Fusion drives.

Unfortunately, I e-mailed them before and it takes days to respond.

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Yes, in this screenshot it is clear it is fused, it says Logical Volume Group and online in the lower part.
In one of your posts I also saw Core Storage and this also points to fusion, not sure though if that is 100% true though.

Hopefully they give you a refund.

Odd though it is not 1.128 TB
 
Thanks to everyone for the helpful info! This is my first Mac, so I'm still learning.
 
This is the second app that I bought for this issue, the first one being Camptune X. That didn't work with Fusion drive either.

I think that maybe the Winclone method is probably the best way to do it until these apps start supporting the Fusion drive.
 
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