Make sure you select the item from the table that has the manufacturer included. In other words, there will be an entry for the physical disk and then the volumes below it. YOu want the physical disk entry.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Jan 13, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Richard Ring <richr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
