Hey thanks for that. Good to know. One question, has anyone been successful in partitioning a hard disc with the disc utility and Voice Over? I can't seem to get too far with partitioning a disc. I am having a hard time selecting a partition in order to name it and set a size etc... If anyone is having luck with this and VO, I'm all ears! Thanks.
Esther wrote: > Hi Jonathan, Justin, and Others, > > There's a very good recent article at TidBITS about "How to Reformat a > New External Hard Disk": > http://db.tidbits.com/article/10307 > > The issue, as Jonathan mentions is that while you can copy files from > other drives, even drives that were formatted for Windows, you can't > migrate from drives that use a different format structure. What's > even more confusing is that there are two Apple partitioning schemes > depending on whether you use an Intel Mac (GUID partition table) or > older PowerPC Mac (Apple partition table), and while you can boot an > Intel Mac from a disk that was created with an Apple partition table, > you can't perform system updates, etc. to such a disk. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Sep 8, 2009, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > > > > I have heard this can happen if the partition map on the external disk > > is not Apple format. I have heard that when you first get an external > > disk you should first "partition" it even if you are only going to use > > one partition so that you are using Apple's prefered partition tables > > and not another systems. > > > > I Heard on the Mac Jury list to select partition disk, then click on > > options and then there should be a pop up menu to set the type of > > partition mapping. > > > > I can't test this here right now. Perhaps Mark Taylor who just got a > > new disk will be willing to test for us. > > > > On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Justin Kauflin wrote: > > > >> > >> Hey everyone, I am stumped. I have just did a clean install of Snow > >> Leopard. I tried running migration assistant, but the assistant > >> doesn't seem to recognize the external hard drives I have plugged in. > >> i was able to use them to make the back ups, and they show up in the > >> side bar in the finder, but when I try to have it restore apps from > >> the external drives, they don't show up. Anybody have any thoughts > >> on > >> why this is. Thanks so much for any feedback. > >>> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
