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iPartition - Resize disk partitions without formatting
Authored by: dksp on Nov 30, '04 09:47:18AM

Just be sure to backup all data before partitioning.

I was partitioning an external firewire drive, when I got a nice kernel panic. I was doing some other stuff - not on the same disk - at the same time. After rebooting, the drive had become useless. I didn't try any recover utilities since I did backup before. So, just be careful.

And I also used it several times without any problems, but I always backed up the data before. And when everything goes fine this tool is a real time saver.

By the way. I partition my external hard disk in order to have 2 partitions on it. One big in HFS+, and another small one - 1GB in my case - formatted as FAT32 where I put the Mac Drive installer. That way I'm prepared when I get to a Windows machine.



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iPartition - Resize disk partitions without formatting
Authored by: deviantintegral on Nov 30, '04 10:25:50AM

How did you get to have both a FAT32 and a HFS+ partition? I tried to do that with my external drive, and Disk utility wouldn't let me do both kinds of partitions. Some googling told me that it was impossible to have both fat and hfs partitions on the same drive as they both store important information in the same sectors at the start of the drive.

Thanks!
--Andrew



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iPartition - Resize disk partitions without formatting
Authored by: DHB on Nov 30, '04 02:51:18PM
How did you get to have both a FAT32 and a HFS+ partition?
An excellet discussion can be found here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030613121738812

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iPartition - Resize disk partitions without formatting
Authored by: moike on Jan 07, '05 01:11:36AM

dksp,

You mention you "... partition my external hard disk in order to have 2 partitions on it. One big in HFS+, and another small one - 1GB in my case - formatted as FAT32 where I put the Mac Drive installer. That way I'm prepared when I get to a Windows machine."

This is EXACTLY what I'm trying to do, but thought it impossible, by the way Macs require Apple partition maps, and PCs can't read them, so I thought it possible to only partition that way, but not be able to actually format and use different partition maps on diff. systems.

Am I missing something here? Are you saying you actually do this, and how? I'd be very greatful if you shared.

Thanks



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