[jbleisure]

Just received a new 20" 500GB iMac and want to partition off 100GB on the drive, when I go into disk utility, click on the main drive and then partition, then 2 partitions it doesn't allow me to resize or rename them.

I'm stuck!

[Sherman Homan]

You can't make a partition on a drive that you have booted from! Its like doing brain surgery on your own brain. Boot from the Install Disk, choose Utilities, Disk Utility. By the way, why do you want a partition? I can't think of a single reason unless you want multiple Systems.

[jbleisure]

Thanks. How do I boot from the install disk?

I need a separate partition to install some windows software, on windows in the new year.

[Sherman Homan]

Pop your Install Disk in, restart, hold down the letter <C> key. You can release the key when you see the Apple logo.