Snow Leopard partition question...

iRabid · 08-31-2009, 09:00 AM

I got Snow Leopard on Tuesday, but barely installed it 30 mins ago. reason being is because I had a problem with the install. While running Leopard 10.5.8 I ran the installer of SL. in the middle of the install it would fail. I ended up losing all my data from that install cause it corrupted my hard drive. The only solution for that was to do a restore on my hard drive. So I erased my whole hard drive and tried to install SL (clean install). Same situation. I reinstalled Leopard then SL. Again failed install, Always would hang up in the middle of the install.

So I decided to partition my hard drive, clean install Leopard, then install SL in a 3rd partition. By some miracle, it worked. SL booted and installed just fine.

Now my burning question is if I can delete the Leopard partition and leave the SL partition? (The other partiton is blank for music, pics, and videos)

styfle · 08-31-2009, 11:47 PM

Thats odd. I'm not exactly sure what could cause that. Maybe a corrupt partition? You have all your files backed up with time machine right?

Europa · 09-01-2009, 12:16 AM

Why would you want your media on a separate partition? I've only used partitions for dual booting.

acosmichippo · 09-01-2009, 03:15 AM

Sounds like you might have a bad sector on your hard drive.

iRabid · 09-01-2009, 09:44 AM

No I didn't back up with time machine. I wish I did! I backed up some of my files with a external I had for my pc. I never used a partition before. I'm starting to think I might have a bad hard drive. What should I do? Cause I have started to put stuff back onto my hard drive.