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Partition free space without deleting existing partition
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phantomdragonz
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Sep 21, 2006, 03:00 AM
 
Alright, so I have a 250Gb disk that I partitioned a 30Gb partition for windows, left the rest free space...

I want to partition that free space to fat32, what would be the cheapest/easiest way to do that?

would it be easier to just re-format the entire disk? or is there a nearly free bit of software that can partition it for me... can be windows OR osx I dont care as long as I can get that space useable..


Thanks!

Zach
     
silver
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Sep 21, 2006, 03:24 AM
 
Hi,
I posted a really good solution in the 3 partition thread. But for the sake of ease Mac Geekery - Nondestructively Resizing Volumes . I can confirm that the solution works, I did it to my MBP 17".


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 MBP 17" 2.16ghz, ATI x1600 256, 100GBHD, 2GB ram, 23"AppleLCD
     
   
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