Dear all,
On my mac i have a external HD with 3 partitions, when i come to delete one of the partitions, it never works. I click apply and it just stays on "Preparing to remove volume" and never goes any futher? Does any one know why? And how i can fix this?
Regards
Lyon
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You have to unmount all the "virtual volumes/drives" you have on the whole physical disk first before trying to delete a partition on that drive.
Now I hope you know by partition you mean a disk slice, you you actually repartition the disk, or remove it's partition table you loose all 3 of them.
Your best choice is to erase or reformat, that particular "volume" or "virtual disk" not delete the partition table on that drive.
Unless of course this is what you wanted to do in the first place.
Do you have a pc? If you do you could use MacDrive 7 to copy your data off, then write zeros, reformat, using disk utility, then connect to the pc and put your data back on.
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by: TCB1Posted on 2008-11-04 at 14:51:46ID: 22881775
Is this a USB drive or firewire? If it's one that can be USB or Firewire, try hooking it up via firewire and see if it makes a difference.
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Maybe there is file or partition corruption issues going on. Try doing a disk check with disk utility, then
deleting the partition.
or
If you have data that you don't want to loose on any of the partitions, make a copy of that data and write zeros to the drive with disk utility, then re-partition it the way you want it and copy the data back.