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mac boot, and windows storage on same USB
I have a 64GB usb to install mac OS X on, but it will not use the whole drive so I would like to partition it. I want the other partition to be accessible from pc and mac. To install mac I need to use ...
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Are two partitions with HFS+ and exFAT more efficient or just one with exFAT for storing data?
I use Mac, Windows, and Linux(Ubuntu) computers, and one 1 TB external hard drive. I mainly use Mac, and don't want to use third party drivers. Is it more efficient to:
Use one partition for HFS(Mac ...
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Is it ok to repartition drives after dual booting windows and OS X yosemite?
recently i installed windows 7 along with mac OS X Yosemite(using bootcamp).Now i have two partitions one for mac and one for windows.
Now Can i split the windows partition in to two partitions ...
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partition drive not appearing in explorer
I originally had a 2 terabyte hard drive partitioned as a 256GB OSX partition, and a 1600~ Dynamic disc (shows up as two blocks on disc management)
After i went on disc utility to delete my ...
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Trouble Partition Hard Drive
In my PC I currently have a 1TB hard drive that I am trying to make into three partitions: one for Windows, one for OS X, and one as a storage for movies and Steam games, just to keep them separated. ...
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Is over provisioning on SSD just another partition or unreserved space and can it be alongside a dual boot partition OS setup?
I have a few machines I'd want to dual boot different OSs with but also maximise the lifetime of the SSD fitted to them.
I am aware that over-provisioning can help maximise the life of the SSD as it ...
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Bootcamp Win7 partition does not load
I am running Mac OS X and Bootcamp with Windows 7. I needed to have read/write access to data on Windows partition. Therefore I have created one more partition using Disk Utility.
The resulting ...
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2 Smaller Drives or 1 Large Partitioned for Separate OS
I have found a few questions similar to this, but those are assumed with a single OS and this is a different question. What I am wanting to do is have Windows and OS X on my computer. This is a custom ...
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OSX ghosting - need to reformat HDD
I have an OSX partition that does not take up the whole drive. Somehow, I managed to damage the unallocated space in a way that disk utility does not let me use it even though it is labeled "free ...
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