Il giorno 12-04-2011 21:28, Kris Tilford ha scritto: > Your mistake was using a Tiger DVD, you need Disk Utility from Leopard > in order to have "non-destructive" partitioning capability. Oh! Now I know it... ;-) Andreas (and maybe someone else) mentioned using Leopard's Disk Utility... but nobody stated the above difference loud and clear (and I assumed they were just reporting their own experience).
Since I don't have Leopard, I just went with my Tiger DVD. Maybe I should have stated since the beginning I was using Tiger. Il giorno 12-04-2011 22:03, Mac User #330250 ha scritto: >> It did happen! > > I'm sorry for that. > > My experiences where different, Disk Utility would just add a partition and > leave the others as they were. As stated above by Kris, now we know the reason. Alas, nobody knows everything, and sometimes you have to learn by mistake. > That's an odd behaviour in Tiger. I didn't know that since I used a Leopard- > DVD. But this is no excuse. I shouldn't have postulated that your paritions > are safe. > > I'm terribly sorry. It's ok, I didn't write to blame you... but to inform anybody who could be in my same place. You said what you said based on the best of your knowledge and - as I wrote above - nobody knows everything. The fault is mine, having ignored Disk Utility advice and "gambling" on others' assumptions. Well, it could have gone far worse. Let's this be a lesson. ;-) Now I'll try some data rescue utility... even if I'm not much hopeful. "You live and learn. Or you don't live long". (Robert A Heinlein) -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
