How do I use partitons other than the 8-gig limited partition in OS X?

I don't remember what it was called, but I partitioned it with the apple disk utility when I first installed 9.0. I created a 5-gig partiton #1, a 2-gig partition #2, and a hundred-some-odd gig partition #3. I also created a 128 gig partition on drive #2.

Should I try something different?

Thanks!

Mark M. Hart

Having nothing of value on the 2nd drive, I partitioned it into 6 small partitions of 19.9 GB or less. They still didn't show up in the disk copy window, so I went to partition 1 and created a folder called Disk Images. That didn't show up, either, but then I dragged the Disk Images folder into the favorites button and restarted disk copy. It now sees the Disk Images folder and I am creating the image there (goodness knows how long it will take, it's been going for a half hour and the progress bar is only at about half done).

Thanks for the info! Next time I'll try doing the folder-create-and-drag-to-favorites from a big partition and see if it works.

Mark M. Hart

Just to update, I created a folder in a 115-gig partition and dropped it on favorites. It works just fine with disk copy.

Thanks for your help, everybody!

Mark M. Hart

Yes, the 115G partition was done with the 9.0 setup disk - I have three partitions on my first drive: 5G on partition #1, 2G on partition #2, and 115G on the third partition.