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I have just bought a LaCie Porsche 160GB hard disk. I wanted to partition it into 3 equal partitions.
So I launched Disk Utility under Tiger and all it seemed to offer me in the drop-down menu was MS-DOS partitions. So I erased the HD and made it Mac-OS X journaled as a single volume. Then I tried partition again and still MS-DOS was the only option. So I gave up and tried a mac with 10.3.9 on it and in Disk Utility under partition immediately found an option for partitioning into 3 Mac OS X journaled partitions.
You have to select the drive not the volume, i.e. select the item labelled 160GB LaCie blah blah blah, or something like that, and not the volume which is indented. Then you will see the partition tab.
You have to select the drive not the volume, i.e. select the item labelled 160GB LaCie blah blah blah, or something like that, and not the volume which is indented. Then you will see the partition tab.
Thanks Simon but I know that little trap. In both cases I could get the partition tab to appear. When it appears there is a pull-down menu with various formatting options. Under Tiger this only had MS-DOS and Erase Free Space. Under 10.3.9 it had a lot of other options including the one I wanted which was OS X Journaled.
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