On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:26 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
I have a Wallstreet 300 with a 20GB Toshiba drive with 2 partitions 1 Tiger and 1 OS9. I need to ad a 3rd partition for 8.6 can I add one without initializing?
What is the reason for needing OS 8.6? I've heard that there are supposedly some applications that won't run in OS 9 that do run in 8.6, but I am honestly skeptical of this idea.
As for your question, I believe you're in a sticky situation. It can be done in Leopard using Disk Utility, but you'd need to remove the HD and mount it on a Leopard Mac. In Tiger Disk Utility will not non- destructively repartition, so you'd need a 3rd party partition program such as iPartition. It can also be done in OS 9 using FWB Partition Toolkit. I'd recommend NOT going this route.
I recommend NOT installing OS 8.6 unless there is some extremely compelling reason. Often tweaking extensions can give you the capability you're seeking, and in my experience all OS 8.6 extensions will load and work in OS 9.x as long as the corresponding OS 9 versions are removed so that there isn't any conflict.
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