Hello, When I'm pasting below instructions on how I managed to partition my hard drive under Lion using voiceover. I'm off to work so I can't check whether they are still relevant under mountain lion but I hope they will help you.
" 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" On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:49, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey, > can not work out this partition page in disc utility. > i can not seem to change the sise when making a new petition it's always > dimmed. > could i plese get a guide on making a partition with VO? > On 25 Jul 2014, at 6:00 am, Tristan Bussiere <tbussi...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> I installed Yosemite public beta relatively easily. Given, I did not receive >> the e-mail, but I did have a code waiting for me when I logged into >> Appleseed, which I clicked. After clicking on the link it opened up in the >> app store. >> It seems that, according to posts and the way this whole procedure is >> occurring, Apple disregarded what they said at the keynote. A lot of people >> who didn't even apply for the beta early on are getting downloads while >> people that applied before them are getting "reached capacity" or "Code >> already used" errors in the app store. >> >> One question I have about this whole public beta is whether we can discuss >> it openly or not. Are Appleseed public beta testers under the same NDA as if >> we were running developer copies? >> >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Hall >> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 3:48 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: yosemite public beta >> >> Those who signed up should be receiving an email with the download codeat >> some point. I haven't yet, but Twitter seems to indicate the email wave has >> started. I say this because, for most of the day, appleseed.apple.com has >> been down when I try to access it. >> On Jul 24, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Tristan Bussiere <tbussi...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> You can get the OS X Yosemite public beta at >> https://appleseed.apple.com/sp >> You must sign in, then click "Get Yosemite" on the top of the page. >> Things to note: >> Only one million people will be able to test. If you did not sign up after >> the keynote, you will most likely not be able to get the beta. >> If you are not ready to deal with the bugs and inconsistencies that Yosemite >> presence in your daily workflow, partition your drive. A guide for that is >> here: >> http://www.cultofmac.com/282347/install-yosemite-beta-without-ruining-main-m >> achine/ >> >> HTH >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dionipher Presas >> Herrera >> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 2:30 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: yosemite public beta >> >> Have anyone already tried to install the public beta of the os >> yosemite? how can i download the installer for the public beta? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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