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Name: Melia
Date: June 26, 2006 at 12:33:30 Pacific
OS: OS X 10.4
CPU/Ram: 2GHz, 1GB
Product: iMac
Comment:

I've bought a G5 iMac which is jaw-droppingly fabulous. It has Tiger instaled on the hard drive which is called System. I want to partition the hard drive and I've gone through the process of restarting the Mac from the OSX install disc and holding down key C. When I go into Disc Utility it displays three drives: 233.8 GB Maxtor, 5.6 GB MatshiaDVD, and System, which, when I ask for info, has 233.6 GB and 220 GB free space. When I highlight the Maxtor, I get the option to partition. There is no such option when I highlight the System drive. Are these two the same drive? If so, why are they shown separately? And why can't I partition the System drive? I'd be really glad of any help.



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Name: forevermac
Date: June 27, 2006 at 00:18:51 Pacific
Reply:

You will need to first erase te entire drive. Ensure your mac
has started from the DVD. The drive does sound like it's
already partitioned into 2 seperate areas. You can't partition
the system drive because it will be locked by Apple. Hence,
it needs to be fully erased before you can partition it.

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Response Number 2
Name: chairman21
Date: July 3, 2006 at 13:54:29 Pacific
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your disk called 'system' is inside the maxtor. it's the maxtor
you want to select and then partition. you'll see the 'Partition'
tab appear ONLY when you've selected a physica hard disk,
and not one of it's partitions.


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