Hi Krister, >From either the recovery partition or from Within OS X itself, in Disk >Utility, select the disk you want to create the partitions on, select the >partitions tab. Press the "Partition layout" pop up button and select "2 >partitions". Then, interact with the scroll area to the right of the "name" >label, and press VO-Space on the partition whose size you want to change. Stop >interacting with the scroll area, select the partition's format from the >"Format" pop up button, move to the edit box after the "Size" label, and >manually enter the size of your new partition, in gigabytes. Press the "Apply" >button, and you're done.
Hope this helps. Regards, Gavin Grundlingh Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792 Email: g.batw...@gmail.com Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za Skype: Batworx Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/batworx Twitter: http://twitter.com/batworx On 13 Jan 2013, at 4:35 PM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm still confused and having trouble about formating my internal hard drive. > I want a small partition with Lion on it and another bigger one with ML on > it. I have tried the following: Going into disk utility and select Macintosh > Hd, both from disk and from recovery pratition and tried to format it. That > won't work. I've tried putting the cursor on 1TB SD something or other, which > is my disk itself and format, that will work but then the entire disk will be > erased and how am i then supposed to install the operating system? > 2, i have tried both from finder and from recovery partition to add a > partition to the disk. This works, but i can change size on the partition i > just added. Even if i interact with the splitter between the partitions, i > cannot change size of the partition that's to be the small one. So what > remains now is to actually format and erase the disk but how do i do when i > have to start again, since the entire disk probably is erased/formated? This > is hard stuff. I don't know how to do. > Thanks > /Krister > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
