[G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

Sure John, it's easy, when you bring up "Disk Utility" click on help  
and then in the help box type "Partition" and you get the help menu for  
Partitioning a drive, some of which I've included below. However you  
will be required to reformat the drive, so if you have any information  
on the disk it will be wiped clean.

	1 	Start up your computer from a Mac OS X Install CD or an external  
hard disk with a System folder.
	2 	Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities. (If you start  
up from a Mac OS X Installer CD, choose Installer > Open Disk Utility.)
	3 	Select the disk that you want to partition in the left column .
	4 	Click Partition.
	5 	Choose the number of partitions from the Volume Scheme pop-up menu.
	6 	Click each partition and type a name for it, choose a format, and  
type a size (you can also drag the partitions to change the size).
	7 	Select the option to Install Mac OS 9 Drivers if you will use the  
partition as a Mac OS 9 startup disk. (You do not need Mac OS 9 drivers  
to use Classic.)
	8 	Click Partition, then click Partition again.
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On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:14 PM, John Niven wrote:

> This comes up all the time! Has anybody actually done
> it, rather than imagining it?
>
> I put a 160Gb drive in my Gigabit Ethernet and under
> 10.3.9's Disk Utility it would only recognize it as a
> 128Gb. How can I partition it, if it's only recognized
> as 128Gb? In truth I don't really care since 128Gb is
> more than enough and if I really wanted more I'd just
> buy another disk.
>
> John
>
> --- Eric Wood <ewood at izoom.net> wrote:
>
>> If it won't format beyond a single 128 GB partition,
>> I imagine it's
>> possible to make two partitions in order to take
>> full advantage of the
>> drive's capacity. The goal there would be to use the
>> entire drive up
>> with the two partitions, however large you make the
>> two of them. The
>> default is simply to cut the drive in half.
>
>
>
>
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