Not sure I would risk changing the partition on this drive unless you
have a backup. Just too many layers of stuff going on here to know if it
will work for sure. Back in the day (before Vista was even heard of)
partition magic was the Windows tool of choice to change partition sizes
but
Hi, well now that you mention it, i will try looking in disk utility again. But
i realized that my external disk has 1 partition on it that spans the whole
disk and is ntfs. I suppose i cant just shrink that partition and create a new
one, because disk utility does not support ntfs natively. Is
Nope, you can't resize an NTF partition. However, if you don't have anything
of value on that drive yet, you can create 2 partitions, 1 being NTFS and the
other being Journal if you wish too!
Yes, you will loose any data on that drive, but, you will only have to do it
once.
On Sep 11, 2011,
/Hi, unfortunately I downloaded 800gig of data for that drive beforeI got my
mac. I want to save that and dont have any other disk to do it on, so I either
buy the commercial ntfs driver, or get a program that can shrink an ntfs
partition.
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Dan Roy
Even if you by the commercial driver, I am fairly sure that you can resize an
NTFS partition with the built in drive utility, after all, this is a mac! You
might be able to do it with a third party program, I am not sure about that.
On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Anouk Radix wrote:
/Hi,
Hi everyone,
I have installed macfuse and the tuxera for mac driver so now I can read and
write to ntfs drives. I want to make a superduper backup of my encrypted hd
though and would like to make a partition for this on the external hard drive
because i want that partition to be extended
Does disk utility not understand the partition map, or can you not find the
option to partition the disk?
Usually disks have 2 or more icons in Disk Utility, and only the first one has
a tap to modify the partition table.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 10, 2011, at 3:06 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
