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Hi How can I tell if the disk utility is working or crashed? It seems to be the same in either case - the SWOD. Are there any third party tools out there which will allow me to partition a drive (400Gb) into Mac and Windows partitions. I managed it with a 120Gb drive but darned if I can remember how. I successfully formatted (took 36 hours!) the drive under Vista and the MacBook Pro can see it but only for Read and can't seem to partition or format it at all. The drive I have is a Trekstor which is supposed to be network storage but I couldn't get the Mac to find it after following the instructions in the manual twice so I thought I'd plug it in via USB instead. I'm running Vista and XP as VMs under Parallels and kind of hoped I would be able to use the same drive for data, e.g. using my Windows tools to manipulate stuff for use on the Mac. I'll try anything to get it to work so any suggestions would be gratefully received! Cheers David aka UD Actually I don't have Idea About that But Check the Follwoign Web Site for your Problem, it is free Technical Support Web Site - www.onfreeze.com. it contain more than 1000 computer troubleshooting issues > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > MacBook Pro can see it but only for Read and can't seem to partition > or format it at all. If you want to install Windows on an Intel-based Mac, check out Apple's Bootcamp utility. Its a free download from Apple's web site. Bootcamp will partition your hard disk and take you through the Windows installation process. > The drive I have is a Trekstor which is supposed to be network storage > but I couldn't get the Mac to find it after following the instructions > in the manual twice so I thought I'd plug it in via USB instead. I'm > running Vista and XP as VMs under Parallels and kind of hoped I would > be able to use the same drive for data, e.g. using my Windows tools to > manipulate stuff for use on the Mac. > I'll try anything to get it to work so any suggestions would be > gratefully received! Check with the drive manufacturer. > If you want to install Windows on an Intel-based Mac, check out Apple's > Bootcamp utility. Its a free download from Apple's web site. Bootcamp > will partition your hard disk and take you through the Windows > installation process. Thanks for that, but I'm actually running Vista and XP on the Mac using Parallels Desktop which is a great VM tool and so avoid having to use the dual boot of Bootcamp. This is an external drive that I want to use, jsut for data, not systems. I can't believe everyone in the Mac world is satisfied with the bundled disk utility but I can't find an alternative :-( Ho hum. Cheers David > I can't believe everyone in the Mac world is satisfied with the > bundled disk utility but I can't find an alternative :-( Ho hum. Those of us who need extended features use the command line utilities that Disk Utility is based on: hdiutil(1) diskutil(8) hdid(8) asr(8) Everything you need is there. Ho hum.  SignatureW. Oates > In article <1175262204.004081.163...@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Those of us who need extended features use the command line utilities > that Disk Utility is based on: I knew there was a reason I bought that book about the Command line. Thanks, I'll give it a try! David > > If you want to install Windows on an Intel-based Mac, check out Apple's > > Bootcamp utility. Its a free download from Apple's web site. Bootcamp [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I can't believe everyone in the Mac world is satisfied with the > bundled disk utility but I can't find an alternative :-( Ho hum. Disk Utiliy has never crashed on me. The 'bundled disk utility' is pretty darn impressive, actually. [ earlier... ] > I successfully formatted (took 36 hours!) the drive under Vista and the > MacBook Pro can see it but only for Read and can't seem to partition or > format it at all. [..] Try this: Plug in the drive. Let the volume mount on the desktop. Run Disk Utility. Click on the *drive* in the list, not the volume name. This should give you the partitioning options. > Disk Utiliy has never crashed on me. The 'bundled disk utility' is > pretty darn impressive, actually. My problem is that I don't know if its' crashed or not, though I assume when there's an "application not responding" type message on the right button menu on the Dock I assume it has. Thanks for the hint, I'll give it a try. I think I'm probably trying to be too clever for my own good. I notice that, even when you tell Parallels Desktop not to connect one or other device - USB, DVD etc. - that while the VM is running the device disappears from the Mac Desktop. Which is not something I realised before and may well explain why I managed to screw up in the first place. Cheers David > Hi > > How can I tell if the disk utility is working or crashed? It seems to > be the same in either case - the SWOD. Nobody actually answered this bit of the question. Other disk utilities I have known and loved all had one thing in common - some kind of graphical textual (e.g. % complete) representation of what was happening. Should I be seeing something along those lines when the utility is partitioning or formatting? Thanks - it will help me to know when to kill it! David |
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