Hello, Dan's summarized how to select the drive. For a more detailed description of partitioning with disk utility, including how to choose an arbitrary partition size, see Scott's instructions from the old list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg43525.html (How to set partition size with Disk Utility) I did an archive search on "partition size -bootcamp" and the above post came up first, but there was also an interesting post from Jacob on an accessible (but commercially sold) partitioning tool called iPartition that came up as the second hit: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg44127.html (resizing partitions) Cheers, Esther Dan wrote: > > Hello, > This is what you need to do. When selecting the drive, don't select > the actual label of the drive, select the model number of the drive > which is just above the actual drive. Now when you look at the tabs, > you will see that the third tab is partition. > HTH. > Dan > On Aug 20, 2009, at 2:27 AM, william lomas wrote: > >> >> hi in disc utility when I select my macintosh HD I see no >> option to >> partition it? >> how odd? >> Will >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---