Logical drive partition not showing in Mac OS.

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Logical drive partition not showing in Mac OS.

Hi all,

I'm rather new to mac OS and am hoping someone could help me out with this problem.

I've a windows partition (C:) running Vista Ultimate. In it, I had created 'logical drive' which contains a FAT32 (D:)and a NTFS (E:)partition. I'm thinking of using this 'D:' drive to share data between vista and Mac OS. However, when I boot up into Mac OS, both d: and e: drives are not showing (c: showing thought). I went into Terminal and use the 'diskutil list' command, it doesn't show me my D: and E: partition.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Simon

Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Dec 20, 2007 1:34 AM

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xnav

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Dec 20, 2007 8:23 AM in response to simon10says

You should have used Disk Utility on OSX to create the FAT32 partition out side of your C: partition, then both OS's would be able to read and write to it.

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Dec 20, 2007 6:16 PM in response to xnav

Hi Hi,

So ... creating partition via Vista will not work in MacOS? Any trick that I could get it work?

In the worst case scenario, I could delete the 2 partitions that I have on Vista, and re-create my d: and e: partition on MacOS. [stupid question] but how would I do this via diskutil in macOS to re-create my d: and e: partition WITHOUT deleting my Vista boot partition? And when I delete my d: and e: partition in Vista, do I reclaim them back to my c: partition, or leave them empty as a logical drive partition and have the MacOS to do the partition out of the logical drive?

Thank you so much,
Simon

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xnav

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Dec 20, 2007 6:35 PM in response to simon10says

I know of no tricks. The best bet is to use BootCamp Assistant to delete and then rebuild the Windows partition smaller and then use Disk Utility to allocate the FAT32 partition. Maybe someone else will respond with an 'easier' solution.

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simon10says Author

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Dec 21, 2007 7:24 PM in response to xnav

Thanks xnav.

Anyone else could advice how I should partition my d: and e: partition? I think I would delete off my d: and e:, but what should I do with this unallocated space? And how should I do the partition on MacOS without deleting my Vista partition? I'm on the Bootcamp beta 1.2 and the Assistant feature is no longer working.

Thanks,
Simon

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simon10says Author

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Dec 22, 2007 11:41 PM in response to xnav

Hi,

I've painful migrated everything back to 1 partition using Bootcamp assistant; but I can't figure out how to make a d: drive partition so that I can share data between MacOS and Vista. I used Bootcamp assistant, but it only allowed me to create a windows partition.

Help help.

Thanks,
Simon

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xnav

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Dec 23, 2007 7:20 AM in response to simon10says

On OS X use Applications>Utilities>DiskUtility and Cntl-Click on the entry on the list for your hard drive and select Partition. A partition map of the drive should appear showing the Mac extended partition and the Windows partition. Click on the Mac partition and reduce its size by dragging the bottom boundary up. This should create free space which you can then format to FAT32 in a new partition. This FAT32 will be read/write to both OS X and Windows.

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The hatter

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Dec 23, 2007 8:16 AM in response to simon10says

MacDrive7 allows 32-bit Windows to access r/w to HFS+.
There is a Google kit for NTFS.
I had terrible performance and luck with Paragon Software's NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 ($30) and would not recommend it.

If you are willing to start over, clone your Vista. Maybe WinClone or Norton Ghost.

Reformat your internal drive with Disk Utility after backing up (Apple Disk Utility Restore).

Don't use BootCamp and create Vista NTFS, FAT32 and Mac OS X. Don't install or restore OS X until AFTER you have Vista installed.

BootCamp only allows for a 2nd partition and I'm not a fan of its methods and limitations.

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