Uninstall: how to get my partition back

[Marc Stergionis]

No pdisk won't try to reformat everything. What's bad is the daunting 
(to mac users) text interface where you have to input the block 
numbers and sizes that you want to repartition.

And I don't recall that you actually *can* use pdisk to get a 
partition to go back  to HFS ... Think I asked that on this list 
about a year ago (might want to check archives for "partition" and 
"HFS") ... and it  may have been on the YDL General List, not the 
Newbie.

:)

-ms

that At about 9:14 PM -0900 on 1/8/03, B. Charles Reynolds wrote:
>You could always mount the YDL disk in the drive (while running OS 
>X) and use the pdisk utility.... I haven't used it. I suspect, 
>however, that it will behave much like fdisk for the x86 world and 
>try to format all of your partitions. :(
>
>On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Marc Stergionis wrote:
>
>>At about 12:30 PM -0500 on 1/8/03, Ted Goranson wrote:
>>>>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,
>>
>>Nothing wrong with backing up and reinitializing. But 3.02 is not 
>>that old. I'm quite certain there's a create volumes function ... 
>>what behavior are you getting?
>>
>>OK, I just found a backup of HDT 2.0.6. I forgot that HDT wants you 
>>to update drivers (to/with *their* drivers) in order to create 
>>volumes. This is usually not a big deal, with the usual caveat for 
>>a *current* backup. So it can be done.
>>
>>Of course if you're running OS X then your HD drivers will be a lot 
>>newer than the one installed by HDT 3.02. I would probably backup 
>>and reformat.

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Marc Stergionis
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