chicagofilms Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 Hi all, I have my system set to dual boot OS X and Windows 7. OS X is my primary OS. Windows in using half of a 320GB drive. The other half is unpartitioned free space. How can I format that free half of the drive to use as a HFS partition? In Disk utility, it looks like I can only do this by blowing out Windows, which I don't want to do. thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225558-how-can-i-use-free-space-on-windows-drive-for-mac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitriX Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 I am in the same situation here: Win 7 installed and around 200GB of unpartitioned space. How can I install Snow Leo on that space without touching the NTFS partitions (Win 7 on C: and Data partition on D:)? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225558-how-can-i-use-free-space-on-windows-drive-for-mac/#findComment-1514385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giorgio_multi Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Hi all, I have my system set to dual boot OS X and Windows 7. OS X is my primary OS. Windows in using half of a 320GB drive. The other half is unpartitioned free space. How can I format that free half of the drive to use as a HFS partition? In Disk utility, it looks like I can only do this by blowing out Windows, which I don't want to do. thanks. Disk utility is not able to partitioning free space. You must partitioning this free space with another software (i.e. Gparted, Acronis, Partition magic), FAT32 or NTFS and then with disk utility convert to HFS+ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/225558-how-can-i-use-free-space-on-windows-drive-for-mac/#findComment-1514658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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