oh yeah. the computer management/local hard disks interface is mostly graphical. I am not sure the button would be visible.
-Eric On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Ok this is odd. I went to partition my 2tb external drive and I can't find > the partition button that the articles say should be there. Um? what the > heck? I did format it to be ntfs though > On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> ok, >> a 32 bit OS will not be able to properly address a 2 TB drive without some >> special drivers or perhaps making the cluster sizes (in windows) overly >> large (in order to keep the cluster count within the supported addressable >> range). I am not sure what OS X uses for this as I have never had to put >> more than a 60GB drive in my machine. >> >> -Eric >> >> On Nov 30, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >>> I am using a 32 bit OS for both mac and windows. >>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: >>> >>>> unless you have some significant issues, >>>> you can single partition that drive (assuming you are using a 64 bit OS). >>>> otherwise, I'd slice it down into 4 500 GB partitions. that generally >>>> makes the cluster sizes a little smaller, and thus allows for better data >>>> storage. >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> >>>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm just worried that it will be unstable in windows. I don't feel like >>>>> loosing 2 tb of data. Ok about 720 gigs but yeah. >>>>> On Nov 29, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Oh snaps, well that means you can partition your hardrive at your 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. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
