Split Hard drive - MAC/PC

a friend divided up my hard drive to allow me to run windows on my macbook pro. windows was never updated or used so i would like to get rid of the PC part of my hard drive and return it all to one larger HD for mac. Can anyone help me as to how i do this. many thanks!

In the Utlities folder (in the Applications folder) you should find an application called "Boot Camp Assistant". Run that and it will give you the option to restore your drive.

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Bought a Mac Book; had the hard drive split so I could use Windows as well; bought XP with it - now how do I use the windows partition? Do I have to install XP? How do I access the Windows programs? Do I need to use Parallels Desktop 3.0 for the Mac?

So many questions in such a small space! You can run Windows on an Intel Mac two different ways. Apple provides us with BootCamp technology which lets the Mac act like it is a generic PC computer with BIOS so we can install Windows on it. The upside of BootCamp is that it runs Windows at real speed. The downside is that to use WIndows you have to quit the Mac OS, and then restart the computer in Windows. You said: +had the hard drive split so I could use Windows+ so it sounds like the process of using BootCamp was started already. Look in the Utilities folder (at the bottom of the Applications folder on your Mac) for a program called BootCamp. Run it, and when prompted for it, print the instructions. Then follow them.
The second way to run Windows is in virtualization (using either Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion). The advantage of this method is that you don't have to quit the Mac OS - you can run both Windows and Mac software side by side. The disadvantage is that Windows runs a bit slower than if you ran it in BootCamp. For virtualization you will have to buy one of the two programs (or look for a freeware solution). Both Parallels and VMWare can use the BootCamp drive so using both BootCamp and virtualization is possible giving you the best of both worlds.
In answer to your last question-yes, you'll have to install Windows. Again, follow the instructions with BootCamp and you should be up and running Windows in about an hour.

Unable to access the windows side of my split hard drive...

I've split my hard drive so that I could run CAD(windows based). How do I access that hard drive? When I start my computer it automatically goes to the apple side of things and there is no option to access the windows side. Please help!!

Hi Aonelisa,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
Mac Basics: Using Windows on your Mac via Boot Camp
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1461
Boot Camp Assistant creates a partition just for Windows without erasing your existing OS X volume.
After installation, you can switch between Windows and OS X by holding the Option (Alt) key at start up. Or, use the Startup Disk control panel in Windows (installed with Boot Camp support software) or the OS X Startup Disk preference pane to set the default operating system to use each time the computer starts up.
OS X Mountain Lion: Change your startup disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10603
Cheers,
- Judy

Used Boot Camp 3.0.4 to split hard drive. No audio.

I recently used Boot Camp Assistant 3.0.4 to split my hard drive so I could also use Windows 7. I couldn't get audio to work. After multiple attempts to locate a driver that worked, I still failed to get it to work. I even tried Boot Camp updates 3.1 and 3.2 but get the message that it won't work without Boot Camp 3.0 (Which I cannot find for the Windows side of the drive). How do I fix this short of buying driver detecting programs over and over until it works?

It doesn't happen in every case but there have been a number of problems reported on this forum with the recovery partition scewing things up with an already installet Boot Camp partition. I avoided this complication by upgrading two MBPs in the following manner which was initially suggested by The Hatter. I have had no problems since August 2011 with these installations.
Use Yasu and Diskwarrior to prepare existing Mac OSX 10.6.8 HDD.
Clone 10.6.8 Mac partition to an ext HDD with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
Restart from the cloned ext HDD and select it as the startup volume via System Preferences / Startup Disk.
Install 10.7 Lion on the cloned ext HDD
Install Lion 10.7.2 update on the ext HDD
Restart the OSX 10.7 ext HDD and test and adjust the preferences if needed.
When satisfied, clone the OSX 10.7 ext HDD back to the existing Mac HDD.
The Boot Camp partition will not be altered as to drive id which appeared to cause problems for a few people.
The recovery partition will be on the ext HDD and can be used for trouble shooting. A more convenient way to have the recovery/reinstallation environment is to create a Lion install USB thumb drive.

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Hello,
I'm wondering if it's possible to partition my Maxtor One Touch hard drive, with a DOS partition and a OSX partition. I don't think it's possible with Disk Utility, does anybody know if there is another free application that would do this? I need to transfer files from school (Windows) and to my laptop (Mac). I can't install any software on the school computers, as they are not mine.
Thanks

Hi Jeremy,
It takes a bit of work in Terminal but you can have one partition FAT32 and one HFS+. Another option is to format the entire drive FAT32 but you couldn't backup System files to it, only data.
John

IS it possible to share external hard drive Mac To Mac, over a PC network,

I would like to explain this situation in it's own post so it's clear. I am at my brother's house (PC user) and both my wife and I are Mac users who are on the network. I have an external hard drive which is plugged directly into my wife's Macbook. I am trying to access it from my Macbook pro. This is my first time sharing and this is what I have done:
I went into "sharing" on her Macbook and turned file sharing on.
I added the mounted drive as a 'shared folder' and made everyone able to read and write.
Under 'options' I checked all of the boxes, including AFT, SMB and FTP (was I suppose to do this?)
Now, when I am on my Macbook Pro I look at the network and I see the PC network server, and her Macbook there (along with another weird network folder called "Mac001ff3cdf6ff", which I'll get to in a minute)
When I click on her computer and connect, I see the folders there which I've previously been able to share.
However, there is no external drive to be seen, even though it is mounted on her desktop of her Macbook downstairs.
When I go back and connect to this strange network folder called "Mac001ff3cdf6ff", however, I see again all the folders that I see when I click on my wife's Macbook folder AND the external hard drive..which is great...BUT, why can't I see this when I click on her Macbook folder? I did notice too that the icon is a PC icon for "Mac001ff3cdf6ff" when I click on 'more info, says "PC server".
Does this mean that the only way for me to access the external hard drive is through a PC server and this is the 'long way around' to get into the external drive? And why can't I connect directly from my wife's Macbook icon in the network folder?
Help please! Thank you. I hope this is more clear.

Is there anyone out there who has had success with sharing an external hard drive over a network from Mac to Mac? I just can't figure this out! It's so weird. When I look in the network places I see the icon for my wife's computer, and the PC ones of my brother in law's drives connected to the network. And ONE of those PC icons (you know, the one with the blue screen of death on them?) is labeled with "mac934ffsg" or something similar. I've been experimenting and when I add the hard drive in "shared", or if I add another folder in 'shared' on her computer it is THIS icon in the network that is updated.
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Airport Extreme + shared USB hard drive // Mac + PC Access

We are getting ready to purchase an Airport Extreme for our home network. Here's what we are working with:
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2) MacBook
3) MacMini
4) PC
5) TBD USB hard drive that will be connected to AirPort Extreme *for use as shared hard drive*
From the Apple website, regarding the Airport Extreme "Hard Drive Sharing":
+How does it work? Just connect the external hard drive to the USB port on the back of your AirPort Extreme and — voilà — all the documents, videos, photos, and other files on the drive instantly become available to anyone on the secure network, Mac and PC users alike. It’s perfect for file sharing, collaborative projects, and more.+
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I ask this question because I have a WD external hard drive that did not play nice - it was either PC or Mac, not both.
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I have 1-4 and a Seagate FreeAgent Desk drive (not an endorsement, just answering your question), and can access the drive from all of 2-4. How you format the drive and/or what files you store on the drive will affect your ability to access/use those files on the drive from Mac/PC. For example, I can't use my iTunes library stored on the drive from the PC, as it's formatted for Mac. Honestly, I never have accessed the drive from my PC until you asked this question, but it worked!

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I had already checked in Finder's Pref's for the check mark for External Disks and it is checked. That is for external disks to show up on your desk top.
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Network Shared Hard Drive Mac/PC

Not really sure where to start this topic, but this seemed a good place to start.
Like many of us out there, I have tons GB's of music, video, and pictures stored and backed-up. Well, after doing some research and some hard decision making I bought an 300GB; should be enough for a while, ethernet external hard drive to store everything. Got a Western Digital that is both WIN/MAC compatible of course.
Here are my questions:
1. What kind of issues will I run into? Some days I am 100% on my iMac and sometimes 100% on my ole Dell. NEVER at the same time mind you. Both run iTunes and I am sure I will have both acecssing my music folder on the shared drive. Again, NOT at the same time.
2. Putting pictures on the shared drive will hopfully give me easy access from my iMac with iPhoto. I am tired of burning CDs, using my flash media, etc. to transfer to my Mac. Will there be any issues here?
3. I plan to back up all my videos from iTunes to the shared drive. Will there be any problem with iTunes on a Mac and iTunes on a PC accessing the same files?
Clearly, I do not mean they will be accessing at the same time!!! I can see how that would really f'things up. Thanks for the help and advice.

Craig,
I don't know the answer for sure, but here's what I think:
Mac OSX is based on Unix, which is an operating system that's case sensitive and "case preserving". Windows is neither case sensitive nor case preserving. Even if iTunes uses the exact same file arrangement on the Windows version as it does on the Mac version (and most likely that's the case) my feeling is that eventually you may find a situation in which a song added on your windows computer will not be found by the mac even though it's showing in iTunes.
Have you considered using iTunes' capability for sharing playlists? If you have either of those computers turned on at all times, you could leave iTunes running in the background, sharing the entire library. That way you could listen to songs on both systems without problems.
I hope this helps. Regards,
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I just reformatted the hard drive on my Mac Book (running Mac OS X 10.5.8), and plan to use it as my primary machine. But I've got system back-up files from an old PC on an external hard drive (was running Windows 7) that I'd like to transfer over if possible. Mostly .mp3 files and documents. The hard drive itself is compatible with both platforms.
Is this even possible?

Is this even possible?
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While I was browsing external hard drives I noticed that there was one that said it was specifically for Mac - I think it was Western Digital. So I was wondering is there a reason to pay extra for a Mac specific external hard drive, or just to use a standard one?
My current WD one is OK (other than the error -36 which means I can't actually copy anything to it without a lot of mucking around) and I'm not really interested in any 'special features' that might come with them, I just use it for archiving & backup.

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There are two reasons why some drives tend to be classified as "Mac drives".
Firstly, for best performance on a Mac the drive should be formatted using either the GUID or Apple Partition Scheme, and the HFS (extended) file system. This lets you deal with files over 4Gb in size, provides faster and more reliable operation than FAT32 , etc etc. It also allows you to easily install OSX on the drive from your OS DVD if you wish to, so that you can boot from it.
I presume the WD drives are provided in this format. (Though you can always reformat a drive that isn't when you get it simply by using Disc Utility, of course)
Secondly, WD , for example, often install additional software on their drives for automated back up purposes etc. Generally this stuff is Windows only and can cause problems when the drive is used on a Mac. Sometimes it makes them next to useless as boot drives etc.
I suspect that WD , in this case , are reacting to the huge amount of criticism that has come their way when people try to use their external offerings on Macs (to the point where many of us strongly recommend against people purchasing them these days).
Another thing that matters when choosing a drive for Macs, though, is the interface itself. Sure, Macs can use a USB drive, but for an external drive FW400 is substantially faster, and FW800 simply blows USB away when it comes to transfer speeds. If you are shopping for a drive it is well worth the extra in most situations to get one that uses FW800.
The favourite external drives of most of the long term users here are the "OWC Mercury" range - see http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/ They are sold under other brand names in different parts of the world (In Australia they usually go by under the "Pleiades" brand name - not sure which hunk of the globe you are in) . I have five of them, and couldn't recommend them highly enough. You can either buy them with the drive installed, or add a drive of your own choosing. Quiet, cool, extremely reliable, and easy to update with a new drive when larger ones come along at lower prices (as they inevitably do).
Make sure you take a look at them if you are drive shopping. They beat the pants off the offerings from other , better known, makers.
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To delete files from your external HDD, attach it to your MBP and drag the unwanted files to trash and then empty trash.
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