Great thanks this is very good information to hang on to. Though as someone said in a subsequent post it would be nice if they fix the access issue here. Again thanks for posting the steps.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 17:04 To: [email protected] Subject: Partitioning an external drive under mac os Lion with Voiceover Dear listers, I thought I'd post my experience of partitioning an external usb drive under mac os Lion in case somebody else needed to do this in the future. I've bought a 1 TB external hard drive, and I wanted to partition it so that it has two different volumes. This is how I accomplished it in Mac OS Lion. I connected my USB drive to my mac. 1. Open Disk Utility (from the finder, shortcut key, command+shift+u), and then start typing disk utility to get there. 2. In the table of all available disks, find the disk you wish to partition. 3. Stop interacting with the table of your disks and move to the right through the available tabs until you've reached "partition" tab. Press vo+space to select it. 4. Move right to hear "partition layout" popup button. Here yo you can choose how many partitions you wish to have on your drive. In my case, I chose two partitions. 5. Move to the right. You will encounter a field that Voiceover reports as something like "name text field". At this stage this field will be reported as dimmed which means that you cannot do anything with it. 6. Move to the right and yo you will hear "scroll area". This is where it gets interesting. Remember, I chose to partition my external drive into two. 7. Interact with the scroll area. You will be able to navigate with vo+arrow keys here, and you will hear: "untitled1 plus some info about the value of the default size of the partition" and if you move right, you will hear "horizontal splitter" and then, "untitled2" with the value of the default size of the partition. At this point, you can't do anything with these areas. However, in order to be able to name your partitions, you have to do the following steps. 8. While still interacting with the scroll area, place your Voiceover cursor on the first untitled area. If you have a mac that has a trackpad which by default is enabled with Voiceover, first disabled the trackpad commander with vo + rotor left. Voiceover will say trackpad commander off. Then bring your ouse cursor to the Voiceover cursor with vo+command+f5. Confirm with vo+f5 that you are on the untitled1 field and then physically click the mouse/trackpad. 9. At this point, Disk Utility got busy for me and I had to force quit it. To avoid this, after you had physically clicked the mouse pad, turn Voiceover off and then on again (don't rush the process), and then stop interacting with the scroll area and move left to the "name text field". 10. You will notice, that now Voiceover announces "name text field" as untitled1 and it is not dimmed so that yo you can enter the name of your volume here. 11. After you are done with this partition, interact with the scroll area again, only this time move to the "untitled2" and perform the same actions here as you had done with "untitled1'. Then again, as soon as you physically click the trackpad, turn Voiceover off, and then turn it on again, and then stop interacting with the scroll area and move to the left to the "name" field where you can now enter the name of your second volume. I hope this will help some people on the list who have been struggling to partition their external drives. With best regards Andrew -- 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.
