Huh? Actually what I did was I just went to format and reformated the thing. no need to go to partitioning anything. I did this on a 2 tb elements drive and it worked flawlesly. On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
> Hello Sarah & Mark > > Sarah; you missed quite a lot of detail here so i will try and give Mark > step-by-step help. > > 1. From the Finder, press Command+Shift+U to open your Utilities folder. > Otherwise, navigate through to "/Applications/Utilities/" then find, and open > "Disk Utility.app". > 2. You'll probably need to press the "Tab" key once to bring focus on to the > list of selected devices. Highlight the device you wish to work with in the > table. > 3. Press "Tab" and you'll hear the list of available tabs. The default is > "First Aid". Move your cursor using the unmodified arrow keys until you hit > the "Partition" tab. Then press VoiceOver+Space to select it. > 4. Where you hear "Current Partition Scheme" modify that setting to "1 > Partition". > 5. Move to the "Options" button and activate it. > 6. in the list of partition types, make sure you select the "Guide" partition > table. That's the only type from which an Intel Mac can boot. Then hit OK, > and apply. > > You should then find it works as you expected. This is only from memory; I'm > not actually doing that as I type so it's possible I missed something minor, > but essentially the process is correct. But looking for the "Format" tab is > misleading because there isn't such a tab. > > Lynne > > On 13 Jul 2011, at 01:09, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > You need to select yoru disk's title under the main disk area where > partitions is. then you should be able to find the tabs that it mentions. > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <https://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to contact me my info is below. MSN and AIM: [email protected] website: http://music.marrie.org Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <https://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
