[bananastylez]

I wanna know how to partition my harddrive
I am using OX S
and wanna format it
but before formatting it
I wanna know how to make my one hard
into two hard drive

thanks

[Timo]

1. open "Disk Utility" in Applications-->Utilities

2. Select your disk at the left

3. Chose the "Partition" tab

4. Knock yourself out

[mac freak]

Now if only OS X had a utility to partiton your drive without reformatting it...

I know such utilities exist for Wintel.

[Rainy Day]

They do exist for the Mac; they just don't come from Apple.

One example is Partition Toolkit. Not sure if you need to run this one under MacOS 9 or if it runs under MacOS X (but you certainly can use it on MacOS X disks/partitions so long as your Mac will boot MacOS 9).

[Brass]

Originally posted by Rainy Day:
They do exist for the Mac; they just don't come from Apple.

One example is Partition Toolkit. Not sure if you need to run this one under MacOS 9 or if it runs under MacOS X (but you certainly can use it on MacOS X disks/partitions so long as your Mac will boot MacOS 9).

According to the web page you linked to (bottom right corner) you do have to run it in OS 9 (doesn't work in Classic). It's a shame there is still no way of doing this natively in OS X.

But as you said, it will certainly work for OS X HFS+ formatted hard disks, so long as you don't mind booting into OS 9 to do it (and your computer can actually boot into OS 9).

[bananastylez]

THANKS!
PEEP

[bananastylez]

hey timo
I found the partition window
but the problem is
I am unable to do anything there
everything in the window is gray
i can not click anything in the
volume information
also I can not click anything in the options
I can not even click anything like revert or partition
am I missing something??

thanks

[wulf]

Originally posted by bananastylez:
hey timo
I found the partition window
but the problem is
I am unable to do anything there
everything in the window is gray
i can not click anything in the
volume information
also I can not click anything in the options
I can not even click anything like revert or partition
am I missing something??

thanks

Did you boot up from an installer CD?

You cannot partition your system disk when you are running off that same disk!

[lemondrop]

You need to start-up from the OS X CD to do this. Put the OS X install CD in your computer and restart holding down C. After the restart Disk utility should be under the File menu. You will lose all your data when you partion.


I think....

[bananastylez]

okie thanks a bunch guys!