troubleshooting Question
Cannot resize partition Mac OSX Lion drive after cloning
Chris-Moore asked on
I had a drive error on my Macbook Pro's 500Gb drive so took the opportunity to clone the drive to a new 1Tb drive so I could max out the drive.
The cloned partition works well but I cannot expand it past the original 500Gb.
I have tried using Disk Utility and when expanding the partition it looks like it completes then it resets the partition size back.
I have tried offline via another Lion startup disk and a USB key and cannot expand the partition either.
Any ideas as to how I can expand the partition past the 500Gb and use the whole drive?
I have run Fix Permissions and the Disk check/repair but this has not helped either.
Any advice would gratefully received!
The cloned partition works well but I cannot expand it past the original 500Gb.
I have tried using Disk Utility and when expanding the partition it looks like it completes then it resets the partition size back.
I have tried offline via another Lion startup disk and a USB key and cannot expand the partition either.
Any ideas as to how I can expand the partition past the 500Gb and use the whole drive?
I have run Fix Permissions and the Disk check/repair but this has not helped either.
Any advice would gratefully received!
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