Open Disk Utility and ERASE your internal drive to Mac OS extended with journaling enabled.ĥ. Boot from the cloned backup you just chose. Pick the cloned backup that has the OS you want to keep on it.ģ. TWO cloned backups, one of each partition.Ģ. Then use CCC to make a clone of the second partition to another drive, as well. Use a cloning app (CCC would do best) to make a clone of the first partition to another drive (or partition on another drive). If you REALLY want to "clean up the internal drive" and make it 1 partition with "everything on it", you're going to have to do the following:ġ.
Pay attention to what the guys have said above.
Just a minor note, in case that gets worked into the strategy somewhere.
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I have a 1TB external HD that i could use to aid this process if necessary, but i'd prefer to explore alternate options that don't involve formatting the drive etc, because A) the external is currently getting used for an older SL backup that i'd like to keep if possible (although it's not absolutely imperative, spose i could update the external to host my current El Capitan 920gb since the old software still works on Capitan fine), and B) it makes me a little nervous lol.Īlso note that i'm considering upgrading to Sierra along the way (slightly worried my licenses wont carry over? Also El Capitan has good stability for my 32bit software right now). My problem is that, when viewing Disk Utility from the 920gb partition, the "-" button on the 80gb partition is greyed out so i can't delete it. It has old software on it that would be a nightmare to reinstall. ^ This is the only drive i want to use going forward. Despite the name, "SL 10.6.8" is running El Capitan as well (since today). I can fix that if needed for functionality reasons? Yes but you also want it to work a certain way that it won't. If that still won't work, I know what to do next but it should work.Īgreed. If not, run Disk Utility from the external and reformat the internal. Once you have your SL external set up exactly the way you want it, now you can clone it back to your internal if it will let you. Now reinstall any apps you need from the El Cap partition - if you can - some may not want to work over SL. If Migration Assistant works, this isn't an issue. This is time consuming as hell but certain file types will not open properly if not done this way.
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After you've done so, delete the zip files to make room. If Migration Assistant won't work, zip/archive/compress your Documents/Music etc., move the folders over and expand onto the same folders in the new drive. If it lets you, great as it will save you permissions errors and you can ignore the next paragraph. You must erase the drive.īecause it's OS 10.6 it might not be as simple as clone and back.įrom the SL partition, Clone into your external.īoot from the external, run Migration Assistant and see if you can pull your work files over - no system files or applications-from your El Cap drive. It's probable that Disk Utility won't let you go backwards. Or disk0s2:Ĭlick to expand.Yes but you also want it to work a certain way that it won't. The 80gb El Capitan drive is called "Macintosh HD".
So i'd like to either merge to the 2 partitions OR copy+paste data over to the 920gb and then deleting the 80gb partition. However there's software on the 80gb drive that i'd like to use on my final 1 drive too. I got my refurbished imac shipped with El Capitan, but i wasn't ready to make the move from Snow Leopard yet since all my old music projects relied on the older software and plugins, so i made 1 partition 920GB to host my backed-up Snow Leopard system, and the other partition was 80gb so i could casually use El Capitan for a while and see if i liked it.įast forward almost 2 years and i finally upgraded my 920gb Snow Leopard drive to El Capitan (and all my software works fine), so now i have no i need for the 80gb El Capitan partition anymore, and i want the disk space. I have a 1TB internal hard drive on my 12,2 iMac that, when i first got it, i split into 2 partitions.
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