[G4] Adding a Western Digital 160HD

[John Niven]

Harry,

Yes it is easy to make partitions, but the sum total
of all the partitions is still 128Gb!!!!!!!!!

I just tried what you said and it doesn't allow you to
create two partitions that sum greater than 128Gb.
What a waste of time.

Have you actually done it yourself? Speculative advice
is OK but if you don't KNOW that it works you should
at least say that.

John

--- Harry Freeman <harry at gifutiger.com> wrote:

> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 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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