Partitioning Secondary Internal Drive - Will I Loose my Data??

[JasonGough]

I have 2 internal drives in my power mac, the 1st being for OS X and Apps, the 2nd being for all my audio.

I am thinking about splitting my massive audio drive into 2 partitions using disk utility.

Although i can't see any warnings, i'm worried that partitioning a drive with data on will erase the data that is already there.

Am i wrong to worry? Or will everything get wiped?

Your help would be great.

thanx alot!!

 

[Blue Velvet]

Am i wrong to worry? Or will everything get wiped?

No. Yes.

 

[Sun Baked]

Partitioning is reformatting the drive into more than 1 partition.

It's a good way to wipe the data if you don't save it first.

 

[fistful]

I was about to ask a similar question, glad I searched first.

I'm about to partition my external (never done it before, looks simple enough), one to clone my pb drive and one for miscellaneous. Doesn't matter that much but I was hoping I'd be able to partition free space in the future without losing data, guess not.

I do have a question though, for the cloned partition do I make it 74.4GB or 80GB (my pb has an 80GB HD) ? And yes I am aware it's the same size but I'm still a little confused

 

[risc]

There are apps like Coriolis Systems iPartition that do exactly what you want.

 

[fistful]

There are apps like Coriolis Systems iPartition that do exactly what you want.

ah nice, thanks.