marilyn113

Q: unable to partition external hard drive in disk utility

on El Capitan disk utility does not allow partitioning of a new external hard drive.

When will this be fixed?  Is there a work around.

With I TB seagate disk, and I cannot partition?  That is not helpful.

Marilyn

Mini mac  late 2014  2.6 Ghz Intel core i 5

Memory 8GB

El Capitan 

Mac mini (Late 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 19, 2016 6:21 PM

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Q: unable to partition external hard drive in disk utility

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  • by Kappy,Apple recommended

    Kappy Kappy Jan 20, 2016 10:04 AM in response to marilyn113
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    Jan 20, 2016 10:04 AM in response to marilyn113

    Sure it does.

     

    Select the drive:

     

    Screen Shot 2016-01-19 at 9.51.29 PM.png

     

    Set how many partitions:

     

    Screen Shot 2016-01-19 at 9.48.51 PM.png

     

    Click on the Add [+] button once for each partition you want to add. You can set the size using the Size field.

     

    Before you start complaining about something, it would be wise to get your facts straight.

  • by marilyn113,Helpful

    marilyn113 marilyn113 Feb 18, 2016 12:19 PM in response to Kappy
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    Feb 18, 2016 12:19 PM in response to Kappy

    Dear Kappy,

    Thank you for your help.  Problem solved.  I apologize for being crabby about it.

    Marilyn

  • by dwb,

    dwb dwb Jan 21, 2016 10:51 AM in response to marilyn113
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    Jan 21, 2016 10:51 AM in response to marilyn113

    Don’t sweat it. If you have any experience with the Mac prior to El Capitan you are finding the new Disk Utility less than friendly. I may have spent more electrons complaining to Apple in Feedback about the new Disk Utility program than I have since the death of Apple Works.

  • by Jeffro123,

    Jeffro123 Jeffro123 Feb 17, 2016 8:47 PM in response to marilyn113
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    Feb 17, 2016 8:47 PM in response to marilyn113

    Hi there,

    I used El Capitan and Partitioned a Hard Drive 4 times with the intention of using time machine for 4 separate computers.

    I chose GUID Partition Map and Formatted 4 partitions with 250gb format: OS X Extended (Journaled) and 1 TB ExFAT however, after backing up 1 computer, the remaining partitions were greyed out when plugging into my other mac. why doesn't it like me? I tried re-partitioning it however only with OS X Extended (Journaled) but when I tried running time machine i failed. Please Help!!