On Apr 12, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
I booted from the Tiger DVD, went to Disk Utility, set up the "free
space"
into MacOS format, hit "Partition" button... and all my data was
gone! :-(((
(to be honest, Disk Utility informed me that it would happen)
Your mistake was using a Tiger DVD, you need Disk Utility from Leopard
in order to have "non-destructive" partitioning capability. If you'd
booted a Leopard DVD you would have been able to add the free space
without losing all your data.
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