How to Partition a Hard Drive on a Mac

I show you how to partition a hard drive, internal or external, and tips on what to use them for. You do not have to have or buy an extra hard drive to do this, you can partition your internal HD on your Mac as well, for example Bootcamp. If you have any questions or concerns, leave a comment below. Thank you and enjoy!

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[MrLucky78]

Im doing it right but it wont verify once I hit apply...... any guess on whats wrong???

[AppleGenius0921]

@MrLucky78 What is wrong?

[mybigleftnut90]

hey if i want one of my partitions to be used for storing movies, music and stuff like that, do i format it to Mac Os extended(journaled) or Mac Os extended? thanks in advance.

[AppleGenius0921]

@mybigleftnut90 Journaled

[dsmrocker]

i have a 164g external hd and i am wanting to use it for TimeMachine and also to store my iPhoto library. i want as much room as posable on my external to store my pictures. but i don't know what will be enough to use for TimeMachine to back my Mac up. how much would you partition for each?

Good video. it helped a lot.

[AppleGenius0921]

@dsmrocker Put 20gb more than the hd space

[chosenwon4444]

Great Tut. New Mac for me and this was helpful, thank you! Really liked your video editing, especially having it fast paced and too the point. Great job.

[kerbyespinosa]

i have a mac book which is only standard. i bought it last may 2011. i tried to install windows 7 but it says "The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows". should i return this to a single partition in order to install?

[darkshadow99910]

PLZ I NEED HELP,i partitioned my drive using bootcamp assistant to use windows on mac,but now im using parrallells to run windows,now theres a partition called bootcamp,that has 20 gb of space and i dont use bootcamp,when i go in disk utulity and try to erase the disk nothing happens plz help and reply A.S.AP

[Arsaxophone]

thank you I was look for this for 2 hr God bless thank you

[MsChristinaTan]

Hello, I just got my new mac pro recently and I want to partition my internal Macintosh HD for install movies or games. Is that the same way you did on video? Could you tell me how to do it if it was not? Thank you in advance^0^

[M8Tty1694]

i have 20gb on a time machine backup it is already partitioned but i want to change the time machine backup to have boot camp installed onto it instead i have a windows vista install disk how can i install vista onto that partition?

[w100gmf]

Thanks you ROCK! You totally helped me do this today...... thanks again for taking the time to post this.

[xDunkyMunky]

I am on macbook pro and when i go onto Boot Camp Assistant ( Because i want sony vegas on my macbook pro). I get this message

"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.

Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."

Help me i dont know what to do. Thanks

[yos2481]

@yos2481 (my friend partitioned my hd but i never installed windows and now want to get the 2.5GB back)

[yos2481]

How do you UNpartition your mac? My friend did it and now i have no idea how to get 2.5GB. PLEASE HELP!