Hello Andrew:
Going to try it! Thanks so much.
> On Dec 15, 2015, at 10:06 AM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Patricia,
>
> Ok, I've got my disc and after a few hours of struggling, I've partitioned it
> into two partitions successfully.
>
> I plugged my new dis into a usb port. It showed on my desktop. I opened
> disc utilities and selected the disc in the table of all available discs. I
> then chose to erase it to be sure that the formatting is what I want. I did
> not wish to use the disc with any other operating system, nor did I want to
> use any backup software that came with it so I chose the mac os journalled
> and GUID option with it. The disc was erased and reformatted.
>
> I then made sure it was selected in the table of available discs and pressed
> "partition" button in the toolbar.
>
> Looking from the left to the right, you first have the name of your disc.
> That's reassuring. :)
>
> Then you have the pie chart area. You need to interact with it. You will
> probably see there the name Untitled with the number of GBs or TBs and you
> will also hear VoiceOver say whether it is selected or not. It says
> something like "selected, yes". This is again to reassure you. At this
> point, this is the only partition available after reformatting the disc.
>
> Stop interacting with the pie chart area and move to the right. You will
> encounter the name of the existing partition, which is in all likelihood
> "Untitled", and then the same name but this time it will be in an edit field
> so that you can type a new name for a new partition. Do so. I just called
> it for now "partition1'.
>
> Then move to the right and you will see the size of the original partition -
> in my case, it was 2 TB i.e. my entire disc space. I changed it to 1 TB
> which is what I wanted for the new partition.
>
> Then move right skipping through buttons like "add" and "remove" and "cancel"
> till you get onto the 'apply" button. Press vo+space on it. The resizing
> and partitioning will begin.
>
> When it's over, the "done' button at the far right will become active. click
> on it. You will find yourself back on the table of available discs.
>
> Go back and reactivate 'partition' button in the toolbar. Find the pie chart
> area, and you should now have two entries in there: "partition1" in my case
> and Voiceover will announce how big it is and whether it is selected or not,
> and move to the right to hear "untitled' with its size and it will probably
> say selected no. This pie chart area is a good reference point to make sure
> how many partitions you have and what size they are.
>
> If two Partitions are enough for you, then close disc utilities and on your
> desktop you can rename the "untitled" partition to whatever you want. I
> assume you know how to rename files and folders by pressing enter on them and
> enter again wen you have typed in a new name.
>
> I must say that I have failed to resize the existing partitions after I have
> created them. When I attempt to resize them, i.e. I highlight a partition I
> want, and then right a new value for size in the edit field, instead of
> changing the size of the selected partition, disc utility creates a new
> partition making another partition smaller. There's obviously something here
> I fail to grasp. When you put VoiceOver cursor on the pie chart area, it
> tells you to drag the slider to the desired size of your partition but I
> don't know whether we can do it without sight. I tried and tried various
> tricks but failed.
>
> If by any chance you create an extra partition you don't want, you can select
> it in the pie chart area with vo+space and then press "remove" button.
> Vo+spacebar will highlight / select a partition in the pie chart area if it
> is not already selected. Listen carefully to what VoiceOver says: it wasn't
> obvious to me initially because of the way VoiceOver announces it. It says:
> "select yes" or "select no". So at first I just didn't get it.
>
> I hope this will help you somewhat.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Andrew
>> On 14 Dec 2015, at 17:21, Patricia Solis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>> I’m sorry, I should have been more specific. I know about disc Utility
>> and choosing my drive and the partition tab under the tool bar. I don’t
>> understand the new lay out and can’t find where to choose how many
>> partitions I want. All I see is partition pie chart view group and the
>> drive info and an add button/ remove/ cancel and apply buttons. Where do I
>> choose how partitions I want?
>>
>> Thanks Patricia
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 12:58 AM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Once you've connected your external drive, open the application Disc
>>> Utilities. From the finder, press command+shift+u to open utilities
>>> section of your applications, and then arrow down to Disc Utilities. Once
>>> you've opened the Disc utilities app, you will probably be already focused
>>> on the table of all discs and volumes currently attached to your computer.
>>> Choose your external disc and double check that it is indeed the disc
>>> that's highlighted by pressing vo+f6. You want to make sure you are going
>>> to be performing partitioning on the right disc. Then interact with the
>>> toolbar and choose partition button. I've not partitioned a disc yet under
>>> El Capitan - something which I will have to do tomorrow - but in the
>>> previous versions of OS, certain aspects of partitioning process were very
>>> tricky, i.e. apportioning number of gbs to each partition. Hopefully it
>>> will be easier in El Capitan, but I won't know till tomorrow. I remember
>>> having to route mouse to vo cursor a lot and having to simulate mouse
>>> clicks to make the fields into which you input values editable.
>>>
>>> Good luck
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>> On 14 Dec 2015, at 01:17, Patricia Solis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello All:
>>>>
>>>> How do I partition a 2tb external drive? I wanted to partition it
>>>> into 2 partitions. I'm using el Capitan on my Mac.
>>>>
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