External hard drive partitioning

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• external hard drive partition in disk utility impossible

  on El Capitan, disk utility does not a new external hard drive partitioning.

  When is this corrected?  Is there a work-around.

  With I TB seagate drive and I cannot partition?  It is not useful.

  Marilyn

  Mac mini end of 2014 2.6 Ghz Intel core i 5

  8GB memory

  El Capitan

  Of course, it does.

  Select the drive:

  

  Set how many partitions:

  

  Click on the Add [+] button once for each partition that you want to add. You can set the size using the size field.

  Before you start to complain about something, it would be wise to get your facts straight.

• How can I make a DVD of the restore hidden in my external hard drive partition recovery

  How can I make a DVD of the restore hidden in my external hard drive partition recovery because I want to recover my toshiba satellite L840 that does not respond directly to my hard drive so I put my laptop to an external HARD drive and then I want to copy a DVD recovery partition

  Your question is a bit confusing, you can boot the laptop at all? Have you tried booting in safe mode, you can make a recovery DVD set from there, the folder Toshiba.

  With the drive in the Toshiba, you should be able to use a F, F10, F11, or F12 key to activate the installation from the partition hidden started upward.

  Otherwise, you can contact Toshiba, and with the model of the product id number and the laptop for Windows, you can buy a set of disks.

• external hard drive partition copy

  I have an external hard addrtiion to my computer.  I have a disc managerment that allows me to copy partitions.  If I copy the partion on my internal hard drive and stick it in my outside, is that I gave two fully functional WIndows XP now. If Windows crashes I'll be able to start on the external hard drive?

  And even ewrase and reformat the drive internal and copy the my external hard drive4 patition.   Indeed, never lose Winows XP and all my programs installed again?   Or is it simply a desire that can really be achieved.

  Bill K

  Your program has the ability to create a partition bootable (what is the name of the program)?
  If your program has the ability to clone, then this is the way to go if you want just an exact replacement for your internal drive, if a problem occurs catastrophic. A better option would be an imaging program that allows you to create images of your internal drive like this at some point. In this way, if you have a regular image, say twice a month, so you can fit maybe three or four images on the same drive that you want to clone in. A cloned disk must be the same size or larger that the drive is cloned. An image is compressed and takes less space.

  SC Tom

• The external hard drive partitioning

  Can Hello: Anyone help me with a beginner?

  I have a 3 to external hard drive that I want to score in three volumes of 1 TB. But every time I try to use DiskPart it divides the first partition in a 2 TB and from there I can not extend it. When I cut it up to 1 TB it gives me two volumes, K and L, but then I can't expand the volume of L. It's all leaving me with 746 GB unallocated I can't use.  Is in anyway possible of this Dove upward from the way I want?

  You must convert the GPT disk. Delete all partitions, right-click on the gray area on the left and select "convert to GPT disk.

  https://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725671 (v = ws.11) .aspx? f = 255 & MSPPError =-2147217396

  Best regards, VZ

• external hard drive partition removal

  WD external hard drive has bought recently.  He had a factory partion and I can't remove it.  Disk management I tried and do me not (as an administrator) to remove it.  I can change the drive letter, but not anymore.  It shows up as a CD drive. but this is not a cd.  I have not installed the factory program that came with the disk that is on this partition (665 mb).  Rather I copied information from the computer to the disk manually (I know not so old school).  I want the missing drive, but have failed so far.  Probably should have formatted drive until I copied the data on it, but too late now (it took 8 hours to copy all the data).

  Help?

  Hello foxman24,

  The partition you make reference to contains the WD SmartWare software. So you can successfully unlock your drive on each computer that you connect to. If you do not use SmartWare and do not want this virtual CD you can disable it by following these instructions: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=YJvBcl
  Hope that helps.

• lost all files on my external hard drive partition. need help!

  about 2 days back I changed the partition of my drive external hard parition of os x type to exFAT to use it on all my devices. I had no idea that changing the type of partition will also delete all of the files it contains. I lost about 1 terabyte of media (movies, tv shows, music... etc...).

  I used a mac app store app is worth ₹ 1350 ($20) called Seanate data recovery. the application does not work and crashes. It is never done the analysis completely and crashes just before. apple requested a refund request.

  as I learned that all the good data recovery software are paid apps, I'm ready to make a good purchase an application of trust among Mac users.

  can someone please tell me a good software/app either from macappstore or otherwise, which i expect to do the job?

  Thank you.

  Pascal

  Data recovery 4 can be the best.

  Good luck.

• question about a new external hard drive partitioning

  I just bought a TB G-Technology G 4 USB 3.0 drive to replace my old Lacie which is way to small.  It has served me well.

  I Google search on the net and research here in the discussions, I should create partitions, and if so, how, a few observations are in each article thread or by email.  A reason to partition (actually more than one partition) is so we can have a section for our time Machine backups, and for a section where we want to save our data backup and one for our user data?  I have not seen a clear statement on what might be the 'data', or what might be the 'user data '.  And if the time machine is backed up, is it NOT back up my data files?

  In order to unravel how the partitions I should create in my 4 TB Ex HD, can someone help me better understand what I should and should not save in time machine?  And if I choose to NOT include it in my Time Machine backup, why would I use a partition do it to, in order to save manually?  I do not pretend that it sounds stupid, I'm not clear on what 'it' is and what info I use to make the best decision for my use.

  Thanks a lot for any wisdom you could share with me.

  Michelle

  Have a Time Machine backup partition on the same drive as your data is a stupid backup plan. Since the main cause of data loss is disk failure to have the backup on the same disk as the means of data when the wrong road, you lose everything.

  At Time Machine backup. You never know what data you will lose.

  I suggest that you give up your plan to make the Time Machine backups on the same drive as the data. You need another player for that.

• How can I mount a partition to external hard drive

  My external hard drive partitioned shows all 3 on the disk utility, but that I have to do is grey and not mounted. How to mount or recover my data?

  FYI

  MacBook Pro (mid 2014) OS X El Capitant version 10.11.2

• Why my external hard drive cannot be mounted or viewd by a Macbook

  Hello

  I can't see my HD exertenal from the finder.

  I do not have G-Tech HD and I use with TimeMachine. This HD has two partitions.

  The first is used for the backup with Time Machine, a macbook air, and the second partition is used to back up a macbook pro with Time Machine.

  It worked fine until I look in the external hard drive (partition macbook). Now, it is not possible to mount the external hard drive. From the Finder, I see no partition eighter the first or the second.

  I plugged it in an another mAcbook air and no way to see inside the external hard drive.

  Howerver, I pluggged in a 14.04 ubuntu and I was able to navigate through the external hard drive

  Why can I see the contents of the external HD with a ubuntu n not with a Macbook?

  And how can I solve this problem?

  See you soon

  Stone

  El Capitan has permissions configuration much tighter than earlier versions of Mac OS X and it can become a problem to open files from a different computer. You need to tell us what OS you are running on all computers.

  I suspect that Ubuntu is having no problem because it does not under the same restraint of permissions.

  It worked fine until I look in the external hard drive (partition macbook).

  What you have done here, caused the change of permissions.

  Don't forget that connect a player directly on a computer and use it plugged into an airport will have different permissions issues.

  I don't have much in the way of a solution. Apple has changed repair them permissions on El Capitan.

  You have a Mac running an earlier version of Mac OS X?

  If your two partitions are used just to make the Time Machine backups...

• CC running on an external hard drive

  My Mac is struggling to run CC, as it has 8 GB of RAM and can not be upgraded - it's an iMac (retina 4 K, 21.5 inches, end of 2015), 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3. I heard that it is possible to install and run Adobe CC to an external hard drive partitioned, in order to release the pressure on the HDD internal. Is this possible, and, if so, how can I go about it? Preferable the profane responses because I'm not that irritable - as it is proof of the fact I didn't you could not increase the RAM in new iMacs after purchase! Any help greatly appreciated, thank you.

  The core of the CC, the office application must be installed on the main drive of the machine.  In addition, you can specify an alternative location for the applications to install.

  To change the installation for Applications location

  With the application of CC open, select the gear icon in the upper right, and then choose Preferences.  In the preferences of the screen select creative cloud and then look for the drop-down list installation location

• Partition option is available for an external hard drive version 10.11.6

  Partition option is not available for a new format Touro S 7200 1 TB external hard drive. It is grayed out.

  Erase the disc first.

• How to join the partitions in an external hard drive?

  I have an external hard drive. Empty, but divided into two partitions. (I see two drives)

  How can I meet two partitions?

  I tried using the disk utilities, but I got the message that I couldn't change the partitions.

  (In Dutch: "Deze kan niet worden gewijzigd partitie"; in English, something like: "this partition is not editable")

  What is the procedure that you follow?

  1. Select the disk in the sidebar that contains the partition you want to enlarge, then click on the Partition.

  2. in the list of available Partition, select the partition in the partition you want to enlarge, then click on remove.

  The partition is immediately erased, leaving the space it occupied available.

  3. resize the partition by doing one of the following:

  • Drag the separators between the partitions in the list of available Partition.

  • Select a partition in the Partition layout list, and then enter a value in the size field.

  4. click on apply.

  Disk utility (Yosemite): partition a drive

• Partitioning an external hard drive

  I'm about to migrate to a new iMac from an older iMac.  I bought a new external hard drive I want partition, on the one hand for time machine and one for the backup of photos from another external hard drive.  I would like to get external drives partitioned and set up on the old system if possible before migrating to the new computer.  The new Mac will recognize the properly partitioned drive?  Thank you

  dcshawhan wrote:

  ... The new Mac will recognize the properly partitioned drive?  Thank you

  Yes

• How to partition an external hard drive Seagate

  My old external HD Time Machine does not so I bought a 2 TB Seagate Backup more Portable Drive to replace it. It has been formatted for Windows but provided a configuration "NTFS_ Mac download for_ I ran. I'd like to partition the drive & use 1 TB for Time Machine.

  When I go into disk utility, I cannot and select the Seagate HD, the choice of the Partition is grey and not selectable.

  Any suggestion how to get this HD formatted correctly so that it is recognized in disk utility?

  I guess that the external hard drive is formatted NTFS, so disk utility does not have to perform all the tasks in this topic. It you can't format it on some Windows system with the FAT file system? Once the FAT is made, the Mac of THE it reformats with HFS. However if you want to do with the above partition size (1 TB HFS and 1 TB NTFS or FAT) then can try you with a disk management utility. Read more external for Time Machine & Windows hard disk Partition