On Jul 16, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Michael Gersten wrote:
>>> I'm trying to reformat part of a disk using disk utility.
>>>
>>> I've got a large (143 GB) MSDos (fat32) partition. I want to break it down
>>> to a 30 GB MSDos, and a 115-ish Hfs+.
>>> On the partition screen, I cannot modify the partitions -- I cannot delete
>>> or resize anything.
>>>
>>> What's going on? Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>> Disk Utility has no idea how to resize FAT partitions. It can't even resize
>> non-journaled HFS+ partitions.
>
> Fine. I would be happy to be able to delete the Fat partition, and make new
> ones.
>
> I cannot alter the partition table at all. Probably could if I erased the
> whole disk, but that's a non-starter (I need the stuff on the other HFS+
> partitions.)
Then Disk Utility is a non-starter. Perhaps Drive Genius would be willing to
attempt this astounding feat, but I'm positive it's going to tell you to back
up first (and so would I).
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