Repartitioning your boot disk


Due to limitations of Mac OS X, it is not currently possible to repartition the disk that you booted from, even if you booted from another partition. In order to repartition your usual boot disk, you must either:

  1. Boot from an installation of Mac OS X on a different hard disk.

  2. Connect your machine to another Mac using a suitable FireWire cable, then shut down your machine and restart it whilst holding the “T” key. This will cause your machine to start in FireWire Target Disk Mode, effectively transforming it into an expensive external hard disk. You can then run iPartition on the other Mac, and repartition your disk.

  3. Create a bootable DVD containing iPartition.