- #PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC FOR TIME MACHINE INSTALL#
- #PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC FOR TIME MACHINE SOFTWARE#
- #PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC FOR TIME MACHINE WINDOWS#
If you don’t want to proceed with partitioning the disk, click Cancel.Īfter the operation finishes, click Done.Īfter you partition a storage device, an icon for each volume appears in both the Disk Utility sidebar and the Finder sidebar. If you want to proceed with partitioning the disk, click Continue.
If a dialog appears that indicates it will take a long time to resize the startup volume, read the information in the dialog, then do one of the following: Read the information in the Partition Device dialog, then click Partition. Type a name for the volume in the Name field.įor MS-DOS (FAT) and ExFAT volumes, the maximum length for the volume name is 11 characters.Ĭlick the Format pop-up menu, then choose a file system format.Įnter the size or drag the resize control to increase or decrease the size of the volume.
#PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC FOR TIME MACHINE WINDOWS#
I read elseware that USB 2 is not recommended for a drive which you want to boot from, so then using my 1 TB external for Windows is out of the question, luckally my 2 TB external is 7200 RPM and USB 3.Note: If you click Add Volume instead, you can click the Add button to create an additional APFS volume in the container, or click Cancel to return to the Disk Utility window without making any changes to the storage device. Hope this Helps and sorry for repeating stuff you might have already known about,įirstly, I don't want to put Windows on the internal 1 TB drive because it will eat up a lot of space, I have a lot of things which I want to put on there, just my iTunes library alone is already almost 200 GB. Also be aware that if your hard drive starts dying, things on both logical disks might be affected since you only have one physical disk. Also, if you want to virtualize rather than going with a dual-boot, you can just move the VM around and it will grow as you add more things to it. I can run both Os-Es fine on my 128 GB SSD. Unless you have lots and lots of stuff, though, you shouldn't need a whole terabyte for Windows. Now for the size: I've heard time machine can be a real drive hog, so partitioning for that is a great idea. I have no experience with USB 3, but would not recommend USB 2 for heavy operating system use unless you want a real lag of about a second between key presses.
Assign one to Time Machine, for its exclusive use for backups use the other partition (s) however you want. so your external drives might be faster (higher rpm) than your internal one, but because USB might not be as fast as your Mac's SATA? interface, it will feel slower. If you want to do this anyway, its much, much better to partition an external drive into 2 (or more) parts, also called volumes. Now to the "Which drive should I use?" question: Remember that, in general, throughput is determined by two things: the speed of your drive and the speed of the interface it is attached to. One thing that people get tripped up on: there are text boxes once you create the partition to size it where you can just type in the size and not have to fiddle with the sliders. All external hard drives can be reformatted by your Mac.
#PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC FOR TIME MACHINE SOFTWARE#
And it’s not a format that your Mac’s Time Machine software can use for a backup. Mac can read NTFS formatted drives but can’t write to them. I say easily because I could never do anything like that on a windows system. What If My Macs External Drive For Time Machine Is NTFS Formatted NTFS is a file format for Windows PCs. The actual partitioning of the drive can easily be accomplished with disk utility. However, I can speak to running Windows and partitioning drives on OS X. I don't know much about time machine, as I don't use it. Guess the main question remains whether the Mac will be happy with a external hard drive partitioned in to different file formats, just on a side note my 2 TB is a USB 3 Seagate and my 1 TB is a USB 2 Seagate. Option 3, I can also dedicate the 1 TB external for Windows and then partition the 2 TB external for time machine and general mass storage. Will this work, will the Mac be happy with this? I'll obviously give each partition the correct file format.Īlternitivly I can dedicate my other 1 TB external for Timemachine backups and then partition the 2 TB external for 1 part Windows and other part just some mass storage.
#PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC FOR TIME MACHINE INSTALL#
I have a 2 TB Seagate external HDD, if I partition it in to 2 seprit spaces say 50/50, would I be able to install Windows on the one partition and use the other partition for Timemachine backup? Then I have my other 1 TB external for general mass storage. I also want to run Windows on it, but don't want to install Windows on the internal 1 TB hard drive, I'm going to install it on a external drive and just boot from the external drive whenever I want to use windows.
I'm about to get my first Mac, I baught a 21.5" iMac 2.9 GHz.
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