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1. MERGE PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC UPGRADE
2. MERGE PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC PLUS
3. MERGE PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC FREE
4. MERGE PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC MAC

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In the above screenshot, you can see that Partition C is of size 8.3 Gb and only 1.74 GB of free spaces are available. ** Time to resize / expand ‘Partition C’ to claim all available free spaces. ** Time to resize ‘Partition B’ to ~ 12 GB 12 GB Resize Easily Done ** Resize ‘Partition A’ to 15 GB by using the mouse to drag the edge and shrink the partition size from 20 GB to 15 GB ‘Partition A’ resized to 15 GB without hiccups

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Witness the difference b/w Disk Utility and Stellar Partition Managerįortunately, Stellar Partition Manager utility collects all the available free spaces on the Mac hard drive or an external hard drive and uses it efficiently for resizing the Mac partitions. Task 3) To resize the 3 partitions as below requirement (using Mac disk manager software) Since the partitioning as mentioned in Task 2 cannot be done with the help of Disk Utility on OS X El Capitan we will choose to achieve this task with the help of Stellar Partition Manager utility. The same issue is bothering ‘Partition C’ which is not expanding to ~13 Gb of size either through the partition slider or with the help of the size box. Unfortunately, neither the mouse slider nor the Size box is accepting the Partition B to expand to ~ 12 Gb in size. Let’s see if Disk Utility allows us to do it perfectly. Now as per our second task, we need to create around 12 Gb for Partition B. The ‘Partition A’ shrinks to 15 GB but created a new partition of 5 Gb, which is unused. Now, here the problems arrives Unable to resize Mac partitionĮntered 15 GB for Partition A and pressed Return.

Task 2) To resize the 3 partitions as below requirement (using Disk Utility) Partition B and C SizeĪs shown above, the external hard drive is divided into 3 partitions of sizes 20GB, and two almost 10 Gb of partitions.

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Now select the 19.7 GB of the remaining hard drive spaces and click (+) plus sign. Else drag the slider to occupy 20 GB of spaces for partition A. Press Return and slider will automatically take 20 GB. ‘Partition A’ and ‘OS X Extended Journaled’ Step 1) Enter partition name and format i.e. Task 1) To create 3 Partitions of below sizes (using Disk Utility) Partition Button is Now ActiveĬlick the Partition button to start partitioning the external drive Solution: Select the ‘Generic USB Disk Media’ and the partition option will become active.

** Resolving Partition Option Greyed Out issue I am using an old 40 GB external hard drive to create, resize and delete partition with Disk Utility and Stellar Partition Manager software. Alternatively, the same procedure will be explained with the help of a disk manager utility known as Stellar Partition Manager.

With the help of screenshots, I will be explaining some basic set of activities that are to be done while partition the OS X El Capitan drive.

MERGE PARTITION EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE MAC UPGRADE

Very soon we will need to partition our Mac hard drive in order to make room for macOS Sierra installation which Apple announced this WWDC 2016 in San Francisco.īut before the time arrives to partition the Mac hard drive for macOS Sierra installation, it is equally necessary to backup the data on Mac startup disk drive to avoid losing any files during the upgrade or installation processes. Some of them find difficult to perform regular disk management activities on Apple hard disk drives including partitioning the disk, creating, resizing and deleting a partition. But this makeover didn’t go well for a handful of Mac users. Disk Utility got a facelift with the launch of OS X El Capitan.