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Partition Help
- Thread starter Rob1980
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I assume that the external is formatted HFS+ and that you have tried repairing the permissions and the disk
yah i've had that same message before when i tried to partition my external 320 hdd, i just totally erased my ext. hdd and restarted my computer and everything was fine,
even though this problem has happened a few times with different drives i just erase and restart (sometimes a few times) and everything works fine (fingers crossed
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even though this problem has happened a few times with different drives i just erase and restart (sometimes a few times) and everything works fine (fingers crossed
)yah i've had that same message before when i tried to partition my external 320 hdd, i just totally erased my ext. hdd and restarted my computer and everything was fine,
even though this problem has happened a few times with different drives i just erase and restart (sometimes a few times) and everything works fine (fingers crossed
Thanks i will try that tonight. Just means i have to move 100Gbish to my other external which will take ages
Disk Utility doesn't re-partition on the fly. You will have to copy the existing data off, erase it, repartition it, and then copy the data back. Or pay for a 3rd party partitioner.
Oh i thought that 10.5 could "partition on the fly". Will move the data, earse and try again tonight. Still at work
Oh i thought that 10.5 could "partition on the fly". Will move the data, earse and try again tonight. Still at work
<= 10.4.x could not.
I'm not sure if 10.5.x allows for this. Let me check.
There seems to be a lot of thought that you should be able to do this, but even more posts about how it doesn't work. I think it'll just be safer to do it the old fashioned way.
