A question about partitioning an hard drive with existing data on it

2011-03-09 Thread Justin Ekis
Hi all, I was hoping to make a few partitions on the hard drive of my MaCBook Pro. I remember reading somewhere that in order to partition a hard drive that already contains data, it is necessary to format the drive first. I really have trouble believing this, but it came from a source that I

Re: A question about partitioning an hard drive with existing data on it

2011-03-09 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, if your partition is mac os extended, and provided your disk is not entirely full, you can separate the drive into several partitions, and no you don't have to format the entire drive like on a windows system. Use disk utility which is in applications/utilities choose your hard disk in the

Re: A question about partitioning an hard drive with existing data on it

2011-03-09 Thread Justin Ekis
Hi Yuma, This is very good news. One last question. Should I boot the computer from the Snow Leopard CD to do the partitioning? I assume you wouldn't want to partition the drive while it is in use by the system. On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Hi, if your partition is mac os

Re: A question about partitioning an hard drive with existing data on it

2011-03-09 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, No you can do it directly from disk utility within the system. If you don't specify a partition size for your second partition, disk utility will automatically share the partition in two volumes. Hope this helps Yuma -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google