Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
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Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread Phil Halton
the Mac HD recovery partition, which as you say, is erased along with the erasure of the Mac Hard Disk. Phew, hope that made some sense. - Original Message - From: "John Panarese" To: Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 4:50 PM Subject: Re: A somewhat geeky question about partiti

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread Phil Halton
USB thumbdrive. Here's his website: www.danielcproductions.net - Original Message ----- From: "Krister Ekstrom" To: Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 7:06 AM Subject: Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive Is it only me who's

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread John Panarese
You would start the process from the Mac OS X Mountain Lion installer or make a copy of the installer to a DVD or thumb drive. There are a few ways you can approach this process. It comes down to what is the most convenient one for you. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Bl

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread Daniel C
Hello, To clarify both questions for you. 1. The only way you can format from recovery is if you don't use the option that states, for my Mac anyway, might be the same for any MacBookPro these days: If when you're in the disk utilities, as long as you don't format the entry where it says: TOSHIBA

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
e Mac HD recovery partition, which as you say, is erased along > with the erasure of the Mac Hard Disk. > > Phew, hope that made some sense. > > > - Original Message - From: "John Panarese" > To: > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 4:50 PM > Subject: Re

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Is it only me who's utterly stupid, but to me this doesn't make sence at all. Ok, so i erase the hard drive, and the recovery partition will be erased as well, that's logical, but assuming i want to erase and format the mac from the recovery partition, how do i then go about to install the os, o

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel C
It does make sense yes. But unless you really need the space it wouldn't harm anything to keep the Mac recovery HD. -- 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 unsub

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-11 Thread Phil Halton
. - Original Message - From: "John Panarese" To: Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 4:50 PM Subject: Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive You would need to erase the entire partition first. Then, partition the drive with 2 partitions.

Re: A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-11 Thread John Panarese
You would need to erase the entire partition first. Then, partition the drive with 2 partitions. When you erase the drive, the recovery HD is erased as well. However, when you install the OS on each partition, it will create a new recovery partition. Note that if you got that Mac with

A somewhat geeky question about partitioning the internal hard drive

2013-01-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello folks. I have a 21 inch Imac running Mountain lion. Now i want to repartition the internal hard drive because i've just baught Pro tools and it doesn't play well with Voiceover under ML. I take it i have to erase everything and reformat my internal drive and somehow make both partitions bo