Hey Daniel, Thanks. I went ahead and played around with it after doing a google search. I think I selected all the right options, but will have to check after Time Machine finishes. I am not sure if I selected GDUI or the other mac option, it was automatically set to windows which is strange considering I erased the drive and reformatted it as a Mac OS drive. We shall see. On Jan 6, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Daniel Chavez <topdog2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the same setup as you’d like to have. > How I did it was. > 1. I plugged in my drive and went to disk utility. > 2. I went to the partition tab, and in the disk table, I selected the 2 TB WD > My Passport 0748 Media drive. > 3. I clicked on the partition layout button, and selected 2 partitions. > 4. In the scrowl area, I interacted, and VO left arrowed o the partition, and > VO plus spaced on it. > 5. I stopped interacting, and in the name field, I put a name, for example. > MBP_Backup. > 6. I repeated the process for the second partition, leaving the size controls > alone for both partitions, and putting in the names that I wanted for both > partitions. > 7. You should find an options button, and if you click on it, it will have > the GU I D partition table option selected by default. > 8. Click on apply, then on I believe it would be, ok. > It will erase the drive and make it Mac extended, with the G U I D table > partition format, and will create the 2 partitions you want while formatting > the MyPassport to Mac format. > Good luck. If you need help further, let me know. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
