OH really? I just go to the drive name such as john's mac and go to arace and reformat, Ok, from the mac's dvd but I do the same on other drrives. I had a fat32 drive I bought and I just up and reformated it from the main expanded ting. no partition tin gneeded. I run snl though. On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:52 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
> Hello Sarah > > You can only boot an Intel® Mac using the Guide partition table. So if you > used the Erase tab, (there's no format tab in Disk Utility), it must have > already been partitioned correctly. There's no getting around it Sarah; you > must use that partition scheme and that's all there is to it. > > Lynne > > On 13 Jul 2011, at 19:18, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > 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/> > > <--- 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. 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