Resizing a FAT32 Partition

[CPressland]

Hey guys, I've got a 320GB Hard Drive here and have three partitions on it.

1) Time Machine

2) A Backup of my Leopard DVD (I aint a pirate before somebody shouts)

3) A 10GB FAT32 Partition for crappy Winblows computers

Anyway, I want to expand the 10GB Partition to more like 30GB but Disk Utility wont even blink an eye at it, after fighting with it for a while I figured I could always redo the entire disc but would rather not as you never know when you might need an old old old time machine backup.

I click on my 10GB Partition, in the size box type "30" hit apply and it jumps back to 10. If I resize another partition down by 20GB and try the FAT32 partition still does the same. I even tried deleting the FAT32 Partition but all I got back was two free space partitions, Free Space #4 Free Space #3..

Anyone got any ideas? iPartition?

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Do you not have enough space on the internal disk to move the Time Machine backup there temporarily? It is just a folder full of data and you should be able to move it around whilst you destroy the partitions / recreate them..?

[jayshaw]

GParted LiveCD is useful to have around. It boots up a basic linux based GUI with the GParted partition editor. Great for when you hose your operating system.

- Burn CD

- Restart

- Boot from the CD

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

[CPressland]

GParted killed the entire drive so I just nuked it and started again, thanks for everyones help anyway

[giga Veteran]

Just for the record:

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard can resize any disk partition except a Master Boot Record Partition. You can use Disk Utility to see if a partition is a Master Boot Record Partition, and also to resize eligible partitions.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306496

[CPressland]

Well, it's no biggie now, The drive was not MBR but meh