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Partitioning hard drive with disk utility
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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 1694472" data-attributes="member: 7582"><p>Thank you for your response, I was afraid that would turn out to be the case. I had seen a couple of messages that said it could be done on the later versions of OS X, but wanted to find out if anyone had actually done it before going for it. Your statement about "cannot do so without effectively erasing it" is not quite true, i used to do it on my old windows system with Partition Magic, but evidently OS X hasn't seen fit to bring that little gift to the Mac. </p><p></p><p>Although after i wrote the original post i did give it a try on a small USB external drive, and i will be darned if it didn't look like it actually worked. I ended up with 3 partitions instead of one and all the files that were on the original were still there. Of course like you say they may have been spread all over the drive and not usable, that is why i asked if anyone had done so with success. Rats, now i will have to spend hours doing it the old fashioned way...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 1694472, member: 7582"] Thank you for your response, I was afraid that would turn out to be the case. I had seen a couple of messages that said it could be done on the later versions of OS X, but wanted to find out if anyone had actually done it before going for it. Your statement about "cannot do so without effectively erasing it" is not quite true, i used to do it on my old windows system with Partition Magic, but evidently OS X hasn't seen fit to bring that little gift to the Mac. Although after i wrote the original post i did give it a try on a small USB external drive, and i will be darned if it didn't look like it actually worked. I ended up with 3 partitions instead of one and all the files that were on the original were still there. Of course like you say they may have been spread all over the drive and not usable, that is why i asked if anyone had done so with success. Rats, now i will have to spend hours doing it the old fashioned way... [/QUOTE]
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