damnyooneek Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Is it possible to partition the current hd into two, one HFS+ and one MS-DOS without completely reformatting the original hd? does someone know of a program that would do that? i really want to install XP but formatting my hd is a huge hassle. i'm sure there are people out there that feel the same way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12231-partitioning-to-ms-dos-without-completely-reformatting/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Is it possible to partition the current hd into two, one HFS+ and one MS-DOS without completely reformatting the original hd? does someone know of a program that would do that? i really want to install XP but formatting my hd is a huge hassle. i'm sure there are people out there that feel the same way. I believe acronis makes a program for OSX that can do that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12231-partitioning-to-ms-dos-without-completely-reformatting/#findComment-76989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
damnyooneek Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 they do but its only for windows. i want to be able to partition a ms-dos partition while retaining my current osx partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12231-partitioning-to-ms-dos-without-completely-reformatting/#findComment-76998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatoncat Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 iPartition is available for Mac, however, it is always best to format. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12231-partitioning-to-ms-dos-without-completely-reformatting/#findComment-77201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 iPartition and other "partition" managers does not work on Mac OS X x86, they need handle the PC Partition Scheme, they only handle the Mac Partition Scheme. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12231-partitioning-to-ms-dos-without-completely-reformatting/#findComment-77877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashman Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I have bought Subrosasoft VolumeWorks... it is bassicaly an PartitionMagic on Mac OS... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12231-partitioning-to-ms-dos-without-completely-reformatting/#findComment-78099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WandaLust Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 What I did was to get an external drive and create an image of my Hard Disk. Completely repartition and then format as required. Steps as follows 1. Boot from Install CD 2. Highlight your Hard Disk and then create image 3. Repartition drives. 4. Open a terminal window and type the following asr -source /path/to/<image.dmg> -target /Volumes/<target harddrive> -erase -nocheck It will take some time and will warn that the hard drive won't be bootable. Ignore the won't be bootable as it will be. When all is finished then restart Mac and way hay you have moved your harddisk to a different partition. You have to have an external hard drive otherwise the image will be deleted when you partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12231-partitioning-to-ms-dos-without-completely-reformatting/#findComment-78123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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