Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-12-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The most important thing is to have the correct icon selected in the "table" of disks. Each physical disk will have at least two icons on the left, one for the physical disk, and one for each partition. The partition tab at the top only appears when you have selected the physical disk from the lis

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-12-04 Thread Sarah Alawami
Thanks. I'm looking there. I don't think I was on this list at that time. Oops? Thanks. On Dec 4, 2010, at 1:17 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > How to partition drives is covered in the archives. See Scott > Bresnahan's post: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg4

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-12-04 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, How to partition drives is covered in the archives. See Scott Bresnahan's post: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg43525.html (How to set partition size with Disk Utility) HTH. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-12-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm interesting. Looks like I'll have to do it in the other platform but not sure on that one. Might email apple about it later. Maybe theyhave a suggestion. I don't wan tot buy a piece of software I'll only use once. lol! On Dec 3, 2010, at 19:51, Eric Oyen wrote: > oh yeah. the computer mana

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-12-03 Thread Eric Oyen
oh yeah. the computer management/local hard disks interface is mostly graphical. I am not sure the button would be visible. -Eric On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Ok this is odd. I went to partition my 2tb external drive and I can't find > the partition button that the articl

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-12-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok this is odd. I went to partition my 2tb external drive and I can't find the partition button that the articles say should be there. Um? what the heck? I did format it to be ntfs though On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > ok, > a 32 bit OS will not be able to properly address a 2 T

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Eric Oyen
ok, a 32 bit OS will not be able to properly address a 2 TB drive without some special drivers or perhaps making the cluster sizes (in windows) overly large (in order to keep the cluster count within the supported addressable range). I am not sure what OS X uses for this as I have never had to p

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh I don't plan on booting from it at all. Just using it. but my 320 gig portable hd I plan on reformating to OSx extended journal and seeing how things go. On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > I went back and looked at the article from tidbits. The recomendations from > Matt bo

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I am using a 32 bit OS for both mac and windows. On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > unless you have some significant issues, > you can single partition that drive (assuming you are using a 64 bit OS). > otherwise, I'd slice it down into 4 500 GB partitions. that generally makes > th

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I went back and looked at the article from tidbits. The recomendations from Matt boil down to on Intel based Macintoshes you should use a specific partition style if you want to be able to use the hard disk drive to boot your computer in ememergencies. The article is fairly brief and entertaining

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Eric Oyen
unless you have some significant issues, you can single partition that drive (assuming you are using a 64 bit OS). otherwise, I'd slice it down into 4 500 GB partitions. that generally makes the cluster sizes a little smaller, and thus allows for better data storage. -Eric On Nov 30, 2010, at 1

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Wht kind of research is needed? the thing is coming probbly this week and all of this tech jargin is for some reason going over my head. I can't even speak the partitioning lingo right. lol! s On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Hi Sarah, > I have a 1TB that I split into fou

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'm just worried that it will be unstable in windows. I don't feel like loosing 2 tb of data. Ok about 720 gigs but yeah. On Nov 29, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Oh snaps, well that means you can partition your hardrive at your will :) > > > -- > You received this message because yo

RE: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Scott Ford
Hi Sarah, I have a 1TB that I split into four partitions. I created two osx on the first two partitions and then created two fat32 partitions on the last two. I did all of this on the Mac mini. Now I am using this for a network storage. Later, Scott -Original Message- From: macv

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Before you partittion the drive, you should consider the partitioning scheme you want to use. There was a discourse about this on Tidbits two or three years ago. I will be receiving a new disk shortly, and will need to review all this too. I am getting one of those Western Digital disks that ha

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-29 Thread Yuma Decaux
Oh snaps, well that means you can partition your hardrive at your will :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mac

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-29 Thread Yuma Decaux
Oh snaps, well that means you can partition your hardrive at your will :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mac

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-29 Thread Yuma Decaux
Oh snaps, well that means you can partition your hardrive at your will :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mac

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-29 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually yes I can. I write to nothing but ntfs drives for my mac. lol! and the way I do it is via macfuse and ntfs3g. S On Nov 29, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Hi, > > You can partition the drive as you wish, NTFS GPT mac extended ect, but in > your partition scheme you should make

Re: partitioning a hard drive

2010-11-29 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi, You can partition the drive as you wish, NTFS GPT mac extended ect, but in your partition scheme you should make it so that there are ways to write to the disk from mac os as if you have them all in ntfs, you won't be able to write to them through snow leopard. Cheers -- You received th