Uninstall: how to get my partition back

[Ted Goranson]

>>>>>I installed YDL 2.1 on my Pismo as  triple boot. Worked well, 
>>>>>but now I am rearranging things. YDL goes on an old desktop and 
>>>>>I wish to reclaim the disk space on the Pismo.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have a 20G disk that was divided equally among OSX, OS9 and 
>>>>>YDL. My disk utilities can "see" the boot partition of 10M that 
>>>>>I was easily able to make HFS+. How do I get the missing 6G back 
>>>>>without trashing my other partitions?
>>>>
>>>>Using an old copy of Hard Disk Toolkit, I was able to "delete" 
>>>>the SV partitions, but cannot figure how to turn these into HFS+
>>>
>>>Having not tried this myself, I strongly recommend a very healthy 
>>>back-up before trying it:
>>>
>>>Now that the linux partitions are deleted, you _should_ be able to 
>>>open Disk Utility and create a new HFS+ partition in the now empty 
>>>space.
>>
>>Don't think so. At least not without the warning that all info on 
>>all partitions will be erased.
>
>Yes ... absolutely preferable to back up. Anyway, go back to HDT, 
>select the drive and then select add or create volume in the menus 
>(can't remember, don't have HDT on this machine, but it's there). 
>You will then get a window allowing you to select how much of that 
>free space to use, what to name it and what format (HFS+ etc.)

My HDT is quite old -- 3.02, and doesn't seem to behave as you 
direct. I'll just take everything off and scrub the disk, I suppose,

Best, Ted

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Ted Goranson
Advanced Enterprise Research Office