Partition Issues after removing Lion

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  1. sheppy1, Jan 20, 2012

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    Hi guys,

    I wanted to downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard, to do this I created another partition on my HD, installed SL on it and copied all my files across from the Lion partition and then removed the Lion partition by using the Disk Utility, my issue now is that I have a small SL partition which I cannot expand into the space where the Lion partition was (see my screenshot), does anyone know what I can do to sort this out?

    Thanks in advance :)
     

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  2. maflynn, Jan 20, 2012

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    The easiest way is to back up your computer, repartition the drive to a single partition and then restore your stuff.
     
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  3. fat jez, Jan 20, 2012

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    What maflynn said. Disk Utility can only extend into space after a partition, not before.
     
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  4. sheppy1, Jan 20, 2012

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    I managed to sort it by just installing SL on the other partition, copying all my stuff over to it and then extended the partition, thanks for the replies though guys :)
     
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