Re: External drive partition schemes

On 19/11/2008, at 8:53 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: A dumb blond question. What are APM and GUID partitions? The types of organization used to arrange data on a hard drive ! ??? See these descriptions : -

Re: External drive partition schemes

Hi Stuart, Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme, the default for PowerPC-based Macs. GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme, the default for Intel Macs. Cheers, Ronni On 19/11/2008, at 8:53 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: A dumb blond question. What are APM and GUID partitions? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 K

Re: External drive partition schemes

A dumb blond question. What are APM and GUID partitions? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Hm Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Wk Ph: (08) 9291 4599 Mbl: 0417 053 266 On 02/11/2008, at 12:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Bob, (by the way, best to use a subject when you post - I've taken the libe

Re: External drive partition schemes

Just to clarify my earlier post, as I understand it: - Both intel & PPC machines can read and write to both APM and GUID - Both intel & PPC machines can boot from APM. - Only intel machines can boot from GUID - PPC can read/write but not boot. - You cannot install OSX from an intel machine ont

Re: External drive partition schemes

Hi Bob, (by the way, best to use a subject when you post - I've taken the liberty of putting one in) Unless someone has come up with a new magic trick, it is not possible to have APM and GUID partitions on a single external drive. As I understand it, you can have a number of partitions with diff