Thread: Most painless way to convert back to GUID partition?
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Old May 29th, 2009, 07:28 PM
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Lightbulb Easiest... should work
Easiest solution would be to get a external hard disk, and partition and format it correctly with GUID and HFS+ journalled. Then use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to do a full clone to it. Then boot from this to test it.

Now, while booted from it, fire up Disk Utility and reformat/partition your computer correctly to GUID/HFS+ Journalled. Now clone your install back off the external drive you are currently booted from.

That should work.


I'm actually surprised you managed to get your machine to install/boot on a disk you say is MBR. I didn't think you could do that. I thought that was for Windows only.
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