Toreddo Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hello, i got one NTFS partition and a mac partition. Actually i think mac is so good i wanna use the other partition for mac to. But now the only way to remove that partition and make it available for mac is to format my whole disk which causes data loss on my already installed mac! I can also use fat32 but i dont know if thats the right idea. Can someone give me a tip? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47531-format-my-partition-for-mac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 If you don't care about the ntfs partition then making it fat32 and then using disk utilities to convert it into hfs will result in you having a second partition: both accessible my OSX. I don't think there is a more direct way to use disk utilities to convert the ntfs partition into a hfs in one go. EDIT: This should have been under "Post-Installation Discussion" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47531-format-my-partition-for-mac/#findComment-340564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoda75 Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 If you don't care about the ntfs partition then making it fat32 and then using disk utilities to convert it into hfs will result in you having a second partition: both accessible my OSX. I don't think there is a more direct way to use disk utilities to convert the ntfs partition into a hfs in one go. EDIT: This should have been under "Post-Installation Discussion" Couldn't he just use something like "acronis disk director suite" to resize or delete the partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47531-format-my-partition-for-mac/#findComment-340580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toreddo Posted April 5, 2007 Author Share Posted April 5, 2007 i already did it this way: I deleted the partition with the windows cd, i made a partition with the windows cd BUT i did not format, now i went to the osx install, and formatted it as journaled. Tada! Still thanks for the help guys! (EDIT: This should have been under "Post-Installation Discussion") Why? i got osx already installed its just about an extra partition in my drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47531-format-my-partition-for-mac/#findComment-340688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Hi Toreddo: If you have OS X installed and working on your PC, you may have been able to use Apple's Disk Utility to reformat that partition for you. If that did not work, the way above definitely works. --danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47531-format-my-partition-for-mac/#findComment-340705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toreddo Posted April 5, 2007 Author Share Posted April 5, 2007 Heh ok Im quite new ate mac os :/ Well thanks for the help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47531-format-my-partition-for-mac/#findComment-340716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 5, 2007 Share Posted April 5, 2007 Couldn't he just use something like "acronis disk director suite" to resize or delete the partition? I'm sure he could. I personally have never got around to using that and have only really used Partition Magic. But i think the best thing to use in situations like this would be Disk Utilities (but not sure if it allows formatting of NTFS partitions) or GParted - which is a live CD. Anyway glad you got it sorted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47531-format-my-partition-for-mac/#findComment-340742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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