LaCie’s Handy Hard Drive Partitioning
January 7, 2008 – 5:37 pmI’ve owned, tested and reviewed many LaCie hard drives over the years, and I’ve come to appreciate them for their design, long-term reliability and above-average features. One of the newest little benefits is a cool partitioning tool resident on recent drives like the ‘LaCie Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition‘ and the ‘LaCie Hard Disk, black‘. It allows users to optionally & instantly create a dual partition scenario (NTFS & FAT32) for varying purposes. It’s certainly not the most robust partition manager in the world (far from it), but it’s great that it’s a built-in, freebie utility.
Here’s a quick clip of the setup:
Stumble it!
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2 Responses to “LaCie’s Handy Hard Drive Partitioning”
I hate how it maxes at 32gb, I need way more on that partition. Any idea as to how I can do this? I need about half and half.
By GOOOFY on Sep 6, 2008
If you’re on OS X, the easiest way to do it (that I know of) is to use DiskUtility.app from your Utilities folder (under Applications). It’ll require a format, so move your data off the drive before hand so you have a safe backup.
Anyway, open DiskUtility, select your drive, click the Partition tab, then select 2 Partitions from the Volume Scheme dropdown menu. Make partition 1 Mac OS Extended, and make Partition 2 FAT32. You can split the sizes of the partitions however you like. Click Apply and the partitioning will begin.
I hope that helps.
Jason
By JasonTomczak on Sep 6, 2008