Nemorosus Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I've run into a bump with my hackintosh laptop, and i had to install another Mountain Lion system on an back-up 40GBs partition. So i left my first original partition (let's call it Macintosh HD), and made a new one (Macintosh HD2). Now when booting into Macintosh HD2 i deleted Macintosh HD, but i can't seem to reallocate the space to Macintosh HD2 because the free space is not below the Macintosh HD2, but on top of it. So how the hell do i merge them??? Please help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/287222-merging-partitions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 At least three options exist here. 1. Format the partition that is now empty to HFS+ then clone the current system to it. Then erase the partition #2 to get a free space after partition # 1. Expand the partition #1. 2. Using PartedMagic Live CD relocate/rearrange partitions. This however may not always work correctly with GPT disk. 3. Clone the partition you need to a USB HDD (using SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner). Repartition the HDD the way you want this. Clone the system back. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/287222-merging-partitions/#findComment-1898863 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemorosus Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Thanks for the answer. So stupid action taken by me to do that! Well i'll try PartedMagic Live, as i do not have any very important documents on my disk! Thank you very much! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/287222-merging-partitions/#findComment-1898874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 4th option: Boot the installer and use DiskUtility there, so your not modifying drive your booted from. Should work? 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/287222-merging-partitions/#findComment-1898885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts