Partitioning external Firewire drive...

corysw · corysw #1 (**permalink**)

03-02-2005, 03:41 PM

Is there any way to partition a HD for installation of OS X without erasing what's already on the drive?

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Badger · Badger #2 (**permalink**)

03-02-2005, 05:52 PM

There are two commercial utilities that will do this; if you're running OS 9.1-9.2x you can use FWB Partition Toolkit. Otherwise, Micromat will be releasing DiskStudio "soon." DiskStudio is listed at $50, Toolkit at $25. Another and much cheaper possibility: use a utility to clone the drive then partition it and restore the cloned data to one of the partitions. Clone X (OS 9.1 and above) or Carbon Copy Cloner will do that.

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Member Since: Dec 22, 2004 Location: Earth. Posts: 208 Mac Specs: G5 1.8GHz, 3GB RAM; Macbook Air	03-02-2005, 03:41 PM Is there any way to partition a HD for installation of OS X without erasing what's already on the drive? Thanks Last edited by corysw; 03-02-2005 at 03:46 PM.
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Guest Posts: n/a	03-02-2005, 05:52 PM There are two commercial utilities that will do this; if you're running OS 9.1-9.2x you can use FWB Partition Toolkit. Otherwise, Micromat will be releasing DiskStudio "soon." DiskStudio is listed at $50, Toolkit at $25. Another and much cheaper possibility: use a utility to clone the drive then partition it and restore the cloned data to one of the partitions. Clone X (OS 9.1 and above) or Carbon Copy Cloner will do that.
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