Hi, See if you're able to do anything with the disk after going up to the View menu in Disk Utility, and to Show All Devices. You should then be able to select the entire disk instead of the volume. From there you should be able to erase/partition it. If that still gives you grief, we'll have to use Terminal, which should be relatively painless.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 8, 2018, at 12:29, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: Well ok. I dug u a spare drive for this, reformatted it and its now bricked. It shows 0 available space and cannot be mounted. Not sure what went wrong. Think it was exFat and I chose macOS Journaled. >From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 4/8/2018 10:01 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > It depends on the location of the partitions. The partitions are somewhat > sequential. Therefore, if you have four partitions, for example, HD-1, HD-2, > HD-3 and HD-4, you can't shrink HD-3 and add it to HD-4. There's kind of > like start and end markers for the partitions, and it's difficult to > manipulate them in the manner you're hoping too. I often just backup the > data and re-work the drive. It usually ends up being less work in the end. > Later... > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Apr 8, 2018, at 10:45, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > Latest macOS High Sierra. I need to resize two partitions on an external > drive. I can shrink one down but it creates a new partition and I cannot add > that space to the other partition. What do I need to do to make this work? > Thanks. > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have been visited > in the past. What if it were true? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
