You can do it in Disk Utility, exactly how depends on your version of OS X, what are you running?
Sam On 26 Feb 2016, at 11:54, Michael Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: Ok looks like the 960GB SanDisk Ultra II. But the info on the external has got me really confused. Even reading about it I still don't know what to do. Can I do it from Disk Utility. Regards Michael On 26 Feb 2016, at 11:23, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: I'd go for a 960GB SanDisk Ultra II or Crucial BX200. To fit into a MacBook Pro is only about half an hour's labour, plus cloning time which I don't charge for as I go and watch a film ;) For the external drive I'd repartition using the gpt partitions scheme which is default for macs usually but if the drive's already partitioned in MBR then disk utility wouldn't change it unless asked to. Regards Sam On 26 Feb 2016, at 10:50, Michael Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Sam, been thinking about that as I noticed you've suggesting this previously. The full story is that I want to install win 10 but scared to delete 7 & XP so just want to move them of the HD but still have them usable to get something I've not transferred. I googled 960GB SSD and found prices around £200 but I don't know what to get for my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) What would you fit? And how should I Format this Iomega drive. Regards Michael On 26 Feb 2016, at 08:55, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: Why not just install a bigger drive in your MacBook? Running a vm on an external usb2 drive will make it much slower. You could go the whole hog and install a 960GB SSD and have a faster Mac overall. Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. 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On 25 Feb 2016, at 23:45, Michael Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: The disk has just crashed while running windows xp and the Mike_P section is now empty, the Iomega part os still there. what should i do now ?? > On 25 Feb 2016, at 23:21, Michael Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think so, I have it named Mike_P (meaning my portable) and the other > section is called Iomega and it contains, IomegaEncriptionSetup v1.3.exe and > Autorun.inf. heres a wee screen shot of the desktop and finder > > <Screen Shot 2016-02-25 at 23.17.21.png><Screen Shot 2016-02-25 at > 23.17.48.png> > > >> On 25 Feb 2016, at 22:40, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Partitioning it will do this. But it can destroy data if you're not careful. >> Are we talking about one partition (disks) being empty here? >> >>> On 25 Feb 2016, at 21:51, Michael Simpson wrote: >>> >>> HI, i wanted to move my Parallels Windows XP vpm and Windows 7 vpm files to >>> a 500GB Iomega external HDD. Running out of space on the MacBook Pro 320GB >>> drive. >>> >>> >>> I read that I had to format the disc Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and did >>> this with Disc Utility. Now I have two disks on this drive, one Formatted >>> as above and another ISO 9660 (Joliet). >>> >>> >>> What do I need to do to get a single Drive. It was originally >>> MS-DOS(Fat32), or is this the way it should be. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. 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