thanks s if i say 1 partition will that keep my drive ok and just use the seventy gig free to make another partition separate to the main drive of what i ahve now? So if I do a ten gig partition my main startup drive would be ok?
On 20 Aug 2009, at 16:08, Esther wrote: > > Hello, > > Dan's summarized how to select the drive. For a more detailed > description of partitioning with disk utility, including how to choose > an arbitrary partition size, see Scott's instructions from the old > list archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg43525.html > (How to set partition size with Disk Utility) > > I did an archive search on "partition size -bootcamp" and the above > post came up first, but there was also an interesting post from Jacob > on an accessible (but commercially sold) partitioning tool called > iPartition that came up as the second hit: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg44127.html > (resizing partitions) > > Cheers, > > Esther > > Dan wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> This is what you need to do. When selecting the drive, don't select >> the actual label of the drive, select the model number of the drive >> which is just above the actual drive. Now when you look at the tabs, >> you will see that the third tab is partition. >> HTH. >> Dan >> On Aug 20, 2009, at 2:27 AM, william lomas wrote: >> >>> >>> hi in disc utility when I select my macintosh HD I see no >>> option >>> to >>> partition it? >>> how odd? >>> Will >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
