Hi, I'm a little new to this so any help is appreciated.
OK, I recently bought and installed a new 250gb hdd for my Macbook (Core duo) in preparation for Leopard which I installed fine. I wanted to install XP and/or Vista on it via Bootcamp. I managed to install XP via Bootcamp without a hitch. I gave it 32gb and wanted to put Vista on another partition, but it's here where I encountered a problem.
I had 200+ gb spare so I thought it would be easy to just create another partition in that using Disk Utility. When I tried to create a partition in my Macbooks main hdd space Disk Utility just kept running for hours without doing anything until I quit it.
I thought I was doing something wrong so I tried resizing my Mac OSX hdd to 168 GB thinking that I could reformat the remaining 32gb for the Vista install. However, this has created a 32gb area of "free space" (that's what it says in the Format window under Disk Utility's partition tab).
I can't seem to do anything with this free space as it doesn't appear as a partitioned drive. Has anyone got any ideas as to how I can go back to where I was before I made this stupid mistake?
I've since spied a thread here which explains why Disk Utility might not have allowed me to make another partition
Bizarrely, I attempted to drag the image of the Macbook HD, which resulted in changing the free space into a partition. Problem solved I think. It did erase my XP install but allowed me create 2 partitions out of the 64 gb of space left over. Having said that, I'm still waiting for Disk Utility to modify the partition map
OK, I recently bought and installed a new 250gb hdd for my Macbook (Core duo) in preparation for Leopard which I installed fine. I wanted to install XP and/or Vista on it via Bootcamp. I managed to install XP via Bootcamp without a hitch. I gave it 32gb and wanted to put Vista on another partition, but it's here where I encountered a problem.
I had 200+ gb spare so I thought it would be easy to just create another partition in that using Disk Utility. When I tried to create a partition in my Macbooks main hdd space Disk Utility just kept running for hours without doing anything until I quit it.
I thought I was doing something wrong so I tried resizing my Mac OSX hdd to 168 GB thinking that I could reformat the remaining 32gb for the Vista install. However, this has created a 32gb area of "free space" (that's what it says in the Format window under Disk Utility's partition tab).
I can't seem to do anything with this free space as it doesn't appear as a partitioned drive. Has anyone got any ideas as to how I can go back to where I was before I made this stupid mistake?
I've since spied a thread here which explains why Disk Utility might not have allowed me to make another partition
Bizarrely, I attempted to drag the image of the Macbook HD, which resulted in changing the free space into a partition. Problem solved I think. It did erase my XP install but allowed me create 2 partitions out of the 64 gb of space left over. Having said that, I'm still waiting for Disk Utility to modify the partition map