I really appreciate this information, Andrew. I will give this a try. Harry
On Jul 16, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Jesus Garcia wrote: > 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Lamanche > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 17:04 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
