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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
