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    safest partition software out there to use with bootcamp??

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by beige, May 1, 2010.

  1. beige

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    what is the best software for partitioning mac OSX hard drive provided that i already installed windows cause i get a weird error that there is something wrong verifying my hard disk when i use disk utility :D , please help me , i don't want to reinstall everything again , thanks
     
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    If its already partitioned.. why do you need to do it again?
     
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    i need to make an NTFS partition so i can add all my stuff on it , yes i can write on it after installing paragon NTFS , reason : when i lose my mac OS X or Windows 7 i will just need to reinstall them no need to keep backing-up and recovering all the data :D
     
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    Solved : i used Snow Leopard DVD to boot recovery and Use disk utility to fix the problems and then made the partition i needed
     
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    still doesn't make sense...

    NTFS is a file system, not a partition. A partition can be formatted as NTFS, but that doesn't require re-partioning, just reformatting.
     
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    my scheme is like that 80gb mac journaled 40gb windows ntfs and the rest of the 500gb is formated NTFS , so i needed to parition the ntfs as fat32 first then format it ntfs from inside the windows and then install paragon ntfs , hope u understood
     
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    Disk Utility combines partitions and formats... so I guess thats where the confusion is.

    The extra partition you want to format NTFS or install windows to with NTFS or whatever doesn't actually have to be FAT.. you could have it HFS+, it doesn't care... it'll just reformat the partition wether it can read the previous file system or not.
     
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    @doh123 i think we are not understanding each other :D ,
    i needed my media parition to be NTFS and i can't format ntfs from mac so i formated a partition fat32 and then from inside windows 7 i reformated it ntfs so i can access it from windows and mac , be able to write data , especially data larger than 4gb cause they are not supported by ntfs,so i needed to make 3 partitions install mac , install windows , then do all this stuff, hope u got my point and why did i do this
     
    beige, May 4, 2010
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