MadDoggyca Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 is tehre a way to use OSX Disk ultilie to format a sigle partion on a drive with out wiping the intire drive?? here my rig Prim, "55gig' NTFS" Vista Unformated "20gig" I notice on the dusk u tilites whe nI click on the disk and go over to pations tab it shows me both and I can formate ether one but I see no option to only format 1 with out touching the other partion..... when I click on the partiion under the drive and click format it dosn;t work and says no mount point.... thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Select the partition you need to format on the left panel and choose the "erase" tab. See the pic. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-325816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 hate to say that didn;tqwork..when it try to mount it it failes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-326086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfresh Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I recently cloned my osx partition to a new drive, for that i had to format it HFS+. Let me tell you that i had massive problems with the diskutility built in into osx (booted OSX), i just didn't work out, problems all the time. The solution: Boot your install DVD and use the diskutility there, im sure it will work. regards Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-326093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 the ultiiltes on the Boot DVD is the one giving the me issues of formating a partion useing the baove solution Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-326097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyghKaR5b Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Can he use a 3rd party piece of software? maybe some linux app to correctly erase the Hard drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-326120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 yes I waz jsut aobut to ask that is tehre a 3rd party app or boot cd or somthing I can ether boot off or install on windows that will format a file system to HFS+ ???? I foudn one for HFS but the max is 2 gig Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-326144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfresh Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 With Transmac you can format a whole drive HFS+, but i think you cant select a specific partition Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-326208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoggyca Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 did not run on vista x64 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-326229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyghKaR5b Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I used a windows install cd, booted into Recorvery mode, formatted the drive NTFS then ran FIXMBR and rebooted using OS X dvd then I formatted the PARTITION (not the drive) to HFS+, made it an active partition using fdisk and it worked like a dream. Beats the 10.4.8 disk util which doesn't correctly create the MBR. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45529-osx-diskultile-question/#findComment-327817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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