[macvoiceover] Re: some difficulties with partitions and disc utility in 10.7.4, some help pls

  • From: Clinton Waterbury <c.waterbury@xxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:20:24 -0600

I would just blow those partitions away in disk utility.
But then again, that's just me when thinking of last resort options if one of 
the partitions won't delete or something like that.
On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:58 AM, William Windels wrote:

> hello Gabe,
> If I try this, the process can't start. I receive the message that the disc 
> with the partitions bootcamp an macintosh hd can't be deactivated.
> This seems strange for me since I am running from the recovery partition of 
> Lion. 
> Also, from the terminal, the macintosh hd seems not mounted.
> I don't understand...
> kind regards,
> William Windels
> Op 29-jun.-2012, om 00:21 heeft Gabe Vega het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> why not just start the format and partition by just selecting the first one 
>> and setting the skeme to one partition. this will seesentially do what you 
>> want but with fewer steps. :-)
>> 
>> On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:59 PM, William Windels <william.windels@xxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> I would like to re-install and reformat my old macbook to sell.
>>> It's a macbook with 10.7.4 installed on one partition and bootcamp with 
>>> win7 on another partition.
>>> At the end, I would have one partition with a clean install of Lion on it.
>>> 
>>> The steps I was thinking about (started from the recovery partition):
>>> 1. removing the bootcamp partition,
>>> 2. resizing the mac partition to the maximum size
>>> 3. re-installing Lion
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I had already problems with step one:
>>> If the root of my disk isn't selected I don't have the tab: partition.
>>> But when the rood of my hd is selected, it seems very hard to select the 
>>> right partition to remove.
>>> 
>>> Can someone give some hints or are there any known accessibility issues 
>>> with this task for disk-utility?
>>> 
>>> Thx for the answers,
>>> 
>>> kind regards,
>>> William Windels>
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