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Please help me. cannot resize TM partition to create new one!

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theman

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I need to move lots of data over to my windows partition from my leopard partition. I have a 320gb external with about 100gb of TM backups on it. Can I create a new FAT32 partition to move the files across without losing my TM data? I'm scared to do it.


EDIT: Ok, I just am not able to resize the partition. when I select the external drive in disk utility, all the options go grey, and I cannot drag the partition map to resize it. what is going on??? i can't figure out how to transfer my data without doing this and it's extremely important. aghhh!


please help me if you have some idea what's going on.
 
Yes, you can - just make sure that you don't change the volume name of the TM partition and you'll be fine - I did it myself recently.
 
hmm, really? can somebody kind of walk me through it? i'm new to macs and never partitioned anything before (on a mac).
 
I'm having the same problem. Made another parition but it doesn't give me an option to make it Fat32. I can only make it HFS+ or Free Space (whatever the point of that is).

I would like somebody to gives some steps too!

The Stig
 
ok, i can't figure this out, it just won't let me partition at all... i can't drag the little picture to resize. what do i do?
 
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