That was it, I had choose the manufacturer's name rather than the volume name.
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 11:58 AM, John Panarese <jpanar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. 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