It always happens in Disk Utility.
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 1:12 PM, Richard Ring <richr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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