how do you partition a hard drive

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budaapple

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Aug 31, 2004

• #1

Can someone walk me thru this procedure I did it once and have forgotten. It is a 120ghd that is external and it is attached to a dual 1.25 PM.
Thanks in advance

 

Darwin

macrumors 65816

• Aug 31, 2004

• #2

Open up Disk Utility and select the main image of the External Drive, then from the tabs on the right select Partition

 

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vkapoormd

macrumors member

• Aug 31, 2004

• #3

budaapple said:

Can someone walk me thru this procedure I did it once and have forgotten. It is a 120ghd that is external and it is attached to a dual 1.25 PM.
Thanks in advance

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on this note, what is the main advantage of partitioning a hard drive, and what type of files should go in each partition? thanks.

 

Counterfit

macrumors G3

• Aug 31, 2004

• #4

Keep in mind, partitioning will remove all data from your hard drive.
And the benefits are....
uh I'll get back to you on that... 😉