On 26 Nov 2008, at 18:39, Jason Davies wrote:

>
> And having got used to my new Mac book, I realised that I no
> longer have an external start-up for DiskWarrior. I used to use
> a four gig USB drive with a slimmed down version of Tiger
>
> No problem I thought I can repartition the disc and create a
> small partition for a basic system to start up from. So went to
> disk utility and set that in motion, creating a 20 gig drive.
> Since I have 130 Gig spare I didn't think it would be a problem.
>
> Disk utility has been running the repartition for about seven
> hours now. I don't want to quit it but does that sound about
> right? If it's moving files to make room, it really should have
> finished by now, surely? (I wouldn't expect there to be a lot of
> files at the end of the disc with all that space...)
>
> For now I will just leave it running but I have to shut down the
> machine to move it tomorrow... any advice welcome!
>

If you power down in the middle of a re-partition you will most likely  
lose the entire contents of your disk.

I just hope you did a full back-up first before starting this ?

Paul


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