Your instructions are detailed and quite clear. One problem. I do not see a partition tab in disk utilities. I'm sure I'm missing something.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Jan 13, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Gavin Grundlingh <g.batw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
