paulisthebest3uk Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I have a hard drive in the system with 10 gig of it as storage for windows with a NTFS partition. The same hard drive has 10 gig of unpartitioned space aswell. I wish to use this unused space as a partition for osX86, will MAC OS disk utility create a mac partition without touching the NTFS partition, or will it erase it? I have to ask because ive got all my work and music files etc on this partition, and i dont want to risk losing it. Basically my second hard drive already has half of it taken with a NTFS partition with loads of stuff i need to keep, and i just want to be sure that if i format using MAC DISK UTILITY it doesnt affect the NTFS partition, because when i went into disk utility it just says 1 partition which seems to cover the whole disk drive. Sorry im not very good at wording what im trying to say lol, I hope someone understands what im getting at any help will be appreciated Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infamous Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Yes, it will break your PC/Intel/DOS partition table, Apple uses it's own. You won't be able to read your NTFS partition if you use the OS X Disk utility. I've done that and have been trying to recover correct partition table with my NTFS data for 15 hours (with luck, after all - Active partition recovery 3.0 BOOTCD, if anyone has the same problem) please read here, that's what you need to do: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=11339 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 It shouldnt screw it up, first in the free space make a partiton in windows (FAT32) then select that in OS X and delete it and reformat it for MAC Os X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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