Making a new partition in lion

tonyzero · 14 Aug 2011 at 09:09

hi guys

i could do you your help, since running lion photoshop CS5 has been a nightmare for me, the pen keeps freezing and CS5 keeps crashing when i goto save.

now what i want to do is make a new partition and put snow leopard on it but when i make one i can't see it in the boot up options for for to install SN to it, any ideas as to what i'm doing wrong ?

all i see is my current mac HD, backup HD and SN DVD ?

here are some screen shots

partition made

Start options

choose Start up disk

as you can see no SN hard drive

Tony

tonyzero · 14 Aug 2011 at 10:13

hi,

i do choose the SN dvd but i still get no partition showing up when i run the DVD ?

tonyzero · 14 Aug 2011 at 10:15

that third pic is from the snow leopard dvd but as you can see the partition i made is not there or am i still doing something wrong ?

tonyzero · 14 Aug 2011 at 10:52

are you looking at this on a mobile ? because i have the pictures up of what setting i'm using and i've taken them as i booted from the dvd so you can see whats going on ?

Tony

tonyzero · 14 Aug 2011 at 12:26

thats ok mate, thanks for taking the time to look for me.

tonyzero · 14 Aug 2011 at 16:55

nate922 said:
Did you format the disk under Lion or Snow? Perhaps you need to do it with Snow first?

SL installer should see the disks, how much space did you allocate to the SL partition?

the disk was installed with Snow from new i upgraded to lion, i have tried to format the new partition but it made no difference.

tonyzero · 14 Aug 2011 at 18:18

nate922 said:
It looks like OSX isn't picking up your SL partition as it doesn't have appropriate files or partition information.

This may sound silly but try Disk Utility and restore some bootable image into the newly created partition - even the SL installation image will do, then see if SL or Startup Disk picks up the new partition. (You can always erase b4 installating)

ok so your saying restore an image using the snow dvd and try it again, thanks ill give it a go, i'll get back to you but it might not be until tomorrow.

tonyzero · 15 Aug 2011 at 09:19

Ok guys, got it sorted now, I used supaduper to backup my OSX DVD to the new partition which made it bootable and show up in the start option, once I got the OSX DVD running I then formatted the new partition and installed OSX, now doing a gig update lol

Thanks for ALL your help.

Tony