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OS X Recovery Help

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  • Mac OS X
  • Apple
  • Format
  • Partition
  • Macbook Pro
  • Recovery Partition
  • OS X
  • Windows 8
  • Data Recovery
  • Hard Drives
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July 2, 2014 5:39:59 AM

A friend of mine has a Macbook Pro Early 2011 13-inch. It has Windows 8.1 Pro installed on a 150ish GB partition. The other 150ish GB of the disk remains unallocated. He needs to reinstall OS X on the machine (preferably Mavericks) for class (It was deleted completely during Windows setup, along with Mac OS Utilities).

Command + R on boot triggered what I think was a re-download of Mac OS Utilities. The OS X restore option requires a partition, of course. In Mac Utilities' Disk Utility, I am unable to create a new partition in the empty space on the drive. The "+" sign on the Partitions screen is not selectable. To the side, it reads "You can't resize partitions on this disk because it uses the master boot record partition scheme".



Is there any way to do something about this without erasing Windows?

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July 2, 2014 7:30:37 AM

Simple answer (I'm pretty sure) is no. OS X needs a GPT partitioned disk.
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