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 Norton has since discontinued it. Other discussion forums now point to Acronis Disk Director

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

CB

On 9/11/11 5:19 PM, Dan Roy wrote:
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, 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 wrote:

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, at 6:54 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:

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 there something 
like partition magic for the mac that I might use for this instead?
Thanks for all the quick replies everyone,
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Jon Cohn wrote:

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:

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 journal encrypted as is my macs 
hard drive. I cant seem to create a new partition with disk utility though. Is 
there a program I could use for this?
thanks,
Greetings, Anouk,

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