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Paritioning question

Is it possible to create a partition when booted from an unpartitioned disk?
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Intel iMac, MB Air, iPod Touch, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 26, 2011 8:08 AM

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Feb 26, 2011 9:24 AM in response to Ken Stone

Not only is it possible, it can be done.
But you should still consider two things:

backup, and booting from DVD or another (your clone backup hard drive) rather than making changes on the drive/volume/partition you are running OS X from.

Also, use SL to do any changes if you have Leopard and hope to dual boot with 10.6.

Yes, you can.
No, you don't need Boot Camp Assistant.

Apple Support => Topics from the tab above, or Help menu in any application, or pick up a reference like highly acclaimed "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard" by Pogue (960 pgs).

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