I went back and looked at the article from tidbits. The recomendations from Matt boil down to on Intel based Macintoshes you should use a specific partition style if you want to be able to use the hard disk drive to boot your computer in ememergencies. The article is fairly brief and entertaining, and is located at:
http://db.tidbits.com/article/10307 Jon On 30 November 2010 15:07, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wht kind of research is needed? the thing is coming probbly this week and > all of this tech jargin is for some reason going over my head. I can't even > speak the partitioning lingo right. lol! > > s > On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > > > Hi Sarah, > > I have a 1TB that I split into four partitions. I created two osx > > on the first two partitions and then created two fat32 partitions on the > > last two. I did all of this on the Mac mini. Now I am using this for a > > network storage. > > Later, > > Scott > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 6:05 PM > > To: mac vissionaries vissionaries > > Subject: partitioning a hard drive > > > > Hello all. I'm going to be getting a 2 tb hard drive in a few weeks, or > in a > > week depending on when shipping cooperates lol! > > > > question: is there a way I can partition 1 tb for something and have it > be > > an ntfs drive and another 11 tb partition for something and also have it > be > > an ntfs drive? I want to partition on the mac if I can but if I have to > go > > to the nameless platform I'll do it. > > > > Take care. > > > > S > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<macvisionaries%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<macvisionaries%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<macvisionaries%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
