Re: cannot erase disk partitions on my Mac

2020-04-26 Thread Raymond Foret Jr
that you often just make that > portion of the disk unreachable until you re-format it again, subsequently > giving you that same partition back again. Think of it like this, if your > disk has four partitions, we'll name them Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3, and Disk 4. > If you remove Disk 4,

Re: cannot erase disk partitions on my Mac

2020-04-26 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
, subsequently giving you that same partition back again. Think of it like this, if your disk has four partitions, we'll name them Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3, and Disk 4. If you remove Disk 4, then it is possible to extend Disk 3 to include the space freed up from removing Disk 4, but the opposite

cannot erase disk partitions on my Mac

2020-04-25 Thread Raymond Foret Jr
Okay, Here’s the thing. Using L-Capitan on my mid 2009 Mac book pro, I am trying to erase partitions on my external USB drive but I can’t do it. I think the problem occurs when I try to select the partition to be remove in the pie view. Instead of removing partitions, I just seem

Re: Resizing Partitions

2018-04-09 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
by that page as templates to downsize my apfs container, and to create an ExFAT volume that's now directly visible whether I'm booted to my Bootcamp enabled Windows 10 or to High Sierra. hth Janina E.T. writes: >Latest macOS High Sierra. I need to resize two partitions on an external > dr

Re: Resizing Partitions

2018-04-08 Thread E.T.
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. The

Re: Resizing Partitions

2018-04-08 Thread Tim Kilburn
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 > ma

Re: Resizing Partitions

2018-04-08 Thread E.T.
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

Re: Resizing Partitions

2018-04-08 Thread Tim Kilburn
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

Resizing Partitions

2018-04-08 Thread E.T.
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

Re: Partitions

2015-12-11 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
As always, the remedy under El Cap for the moment is Terminal and the (quite straightforward) diskutil tool. However, are you sure this actually requires partitions? Is it not a feature of both CCC and SuperDuper that one can host the Backups.db directory and live filesystem on the same

Re: Partitions

2015-12-05 Thread E.T.
, partitioning a disc has become inaccessible. I’ve reported this to Accessibility. Numeric editable fields are provided for specifying the size of each partition, but when you change the values in these fields, they immediately revert to what they were. It seems that all partitions must be changed

Re: Partitions

2015-12-05 Thread Anne Robertson
they were. It seems that all partitions must be changed at the same time using the circular adjuster that we can’t use. I’m utterly disgusted about this. Cheers, Anne > On 3 Dec 2015, at 22:39, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Have a new external drive and wi

Partitions

2015-12-03 Thread E.T.
Have a new external drive and wish to partition it into two and use the GUID scheme so I can use one or the other as a startup disk. Each partition to be used by two different apps, one is Time Machine, the other is Carbon Copy Cloner. I think I need to start over and get this right.

Re: how to split my external hd into 2 partitions?

2015-02-07 Thread jeff `greene
Hi, the best way to do this is through disc utility. Bring up disc utility, select your external hard drive, select the partition tab and follow the instructions. It will ask you how many partitions and what sizes and formats you want. Hope this helps! Jeff On 2/7/15, Anouk Radix radix.an

Re: how to split my external hd into 2 partitions?

2015-02-07 Thread Tim Kilburn
than the current size. Then apply the change. Now, you’ll have dead space on your external HD. Press the Add Partition button and you can have this new partition use up the unallocated space on the HD. Thus, two partitions, and no need to copy data off the HD and totally reformat the drive

how to split my external hd into 2 partitions?

2015-02-06 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, I have a 2 gb external hd which is now one big partition, its mac os x extended journal format. I want to preserve part of it for data storage and use a 250gb part for carbon opy cloner. What is the best way to go about this? thanks, Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this

viruses and mac/windows partitions

2014-12-25 Thread joe quinn
Me and my wife want to install windows on our macs using boot camp. What we want to know is, if any viruses infect the windows side of things, will it affect the mac side of things as well? A few things to note: We have programs that allow us to write to NTFS partitions on the mac side, and HFS

Re: viruses and mac/windows partitions

2014-12-25 Thread David Griffith
infect the windows side of things, will it affect the mac side of things as well? A few things to note: We have programs that allow us to write to NTFS partitions on the mac side, and HFS partitions on the windows side. This is why I think that if a virus is on the windows side of things

Re: urgent help needed with partitions

2014-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
the pop-up menu to change the number of partitions as it will erase all current data. Also note that resizing is possible live on the startup disk whereas changing the number of partitions is not. I haven't exhaustively tested this but, it should work. Be patient as some processes take time

Re: urgent help needed with partitions

2014-02-01 Thread Rob
, then press Apply. Note, you do NOT want to use the pop-up menu to change the number of partitions as it will erase all current data. Also note that resizing is possible live on the startup disk whereas changing the number of partitions is not. I haven't exhaustively tested

urgent help needed with partitions

2014-01-31 Thread Rob
Well, I have got myself in a jam. I created a partition on my MacBook called Mac...HD2. and now I cant remove the partition and go back to just 1 partition. Please tell me there is a way to remove the 2nd partition. Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice mail or fax at 206-426-3505 God is good all

removing bootcamp partitions

2010-10-13 Thread Damon Fibraio
Is it possible to delete a bootcamp partition? I have a macbook pro with snow lepard on it. I used bootcamp to dual boot windows xp. I think I want to kill that partition and just use the mac osx operating system. How can I do this? Is it even possible? -- Damon Fibraio screen names --

Re: removing bootcamp partitions

2010-10-13 Thread Scott Ford
Hello, It is extreemly simple to do. Just start the bootcamp wizard and one of the first things that it askes is do you want to remove the bootcamp partition. What is really scarry is how fast it does it. Later, Scott On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Damon Fibraio wrote: Is it

Re: removing bootcamp partitions

2010-10-13 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Damon! Simply go into the Bootcamp Assistant again, and you click continue. Then, you get two choices. Create or remove Windows partition or Start the Windows Installer. Obviously, you choose the first choice, select the partition you want to remove if you have multiple ones and click

RE: removing bootcamp partitions

2010-10-13 Thread Damon Fibraio
://www.daysbeforetomorrow.com From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 5:31 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: removing bootcamp partitions Hello, It is extreemly simple

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
The way I would handle that is to format the drive as a fat32 drive. That way, both the mac and windows can read and write to it, without introducing any extra software on either platform. On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote: Hello allJ I recently acquired an

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
but you only have a4 gig limit per file transfer. Most of my progects I do are about 4 to 8 gigs so that won't do at all. Take care. S On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: The way I would handle that is to format the drive as a fat32 drive. That way, both the mac and windows can

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! The Mac already has native ways to write to NTFS, anyway, without introducing software just by enabling it through Terminal. Apparently, that solution works for some people but not everyone, unless they are missing some steps. Also, the downside to doing this is you have to enable it on a

reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Hooper
Hello all:) I recently acquired an external hard drive I wish to use for backing up my old laptop. Furthermore, as I will be using Windows occasionally as my transition into the Mac world progresses, I would like to use it as a central location for storing things that I may use

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
hello. google macfuse and ntfs3g. both free apps and both will let you read and rite to ntfs. On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote: Hello allJ I recently acquired an external hard drive I wish to use for backing up my old laptop. Furthermore, as I will be using

RE: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-03 Thread Robert Hooper
@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 10:58 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions hello. google macfuse and ntfs3g. both free apps and both will let you read and rite

Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions

2010-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 10:58 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: reading and writing to NTFS partitions hello. google macfuse and ntfs3g. both free apps and both will let you read and rite to ntfs. On Oct 3, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Robert Hooper wrote: Hello allJ