I got Leopard off of ADC. Although I have a DL burner, I don't have a DL media and there's nowhere in walking distance here where I could get some for a reasonable price. So, I want to restore the image onto a partition on my external hdd. My external hdd is formatted FAT32 in one partition. It has important data on it that I wouldn't want to erase and I also have nowhere to store it temporarily while I resize partitions. So, I got on a Windows box with Partition Magic, connected my external hdd, and resized the FAT32 partition so that there is now 10 GiB of unformatted, free space. Now, I want to create a partition in that free space with the Leopard image. So, I went back to my MBP (running Tiger) and connected my external hdd and launched Disk Utility. I wanted to change the scheme to GUID so that I can boot off of it and I also wanted to format the free space in Mac OS Extended (Journaled). When I pressed partition, Disk Utility told me that it would have to erase the WHOLE drive even though I was only making changes to separate unformatted space. Even if I made no changes to the partition scheme, it wanted to erase everything.
What can I do if I don't want to erase all my data? Why can't Disk Utility just format the free space? It's completely separate and it needn't do anything to the existing partition. Is there a solution?
Thanks for the help!
What can I do if I don't want to erase all my data? Why can't Disk Utility just format the free space? It's completely separate and it needn't do anything to the existing partition. Is there a solution?
Thanks for the help!