How to Merge Hard Drives on a Mac

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Tip 1 - How to Combine Multiple Hard Drives Into One Volume for Cheap, High-Capacity Storage

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by NEJIME | permalink

Once you've gone through a few computers, you probably have more than a few old hard drives lying around. You don't have to let them go to waste, though! Here's how to combine multiple hard drives into one, huge volume that'll hold just about anything.
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For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/5986883/how-to-combine-multiple-hard-drives-into-one-volume-for-cheap-high-capacity-storage ^[1]

Tip 2 - Turning two partitions into one

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mr Pippins | permalink

You've created two partitions on a drive and now think better of it. What's the best way to turn two to one? Chris Breen offers advice.

For further reading: http://www.macworld.com/article/2087881/turning-two-partitions-into-one.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Merge Hard Drives on a Mac | eHow

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Tucker Gunneman | permalink

Partitioning a Mac hard drive means to split the hard drive into two or more separate drives. A partitioned hard drive can be handy for running two operating systems on one Mac, like running Mac OS X on one and Windows on another. However, it also means the overall size of both hard drives will be smaller. In order to restore the hard drives to...

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_5845390_merge-hard-drives-mac.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to merge two Mac partitions?

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dale Heim | permalink

Recently I ran Boot Camp Assistant to install a copy of Windows 7. The "Partitioning Disk" process froze and I force quit it - I know, bad idea - and although I was left with a functioning Mac, I n...

For further reading: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/138748/how-to-merge-two-mac-partitions ^[4]

Tip 5 - Merging Two Partitions on a Mac Hard Drive Into One Partition

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by proview 2005 | permalink

With today's large hard drives, you may create two partitions on a hard drive, thinking you'll use it more efficiently by using one partition for files like photos, video, and the like, while the other could be used for backups.

For further reading: http://apple.answers.com/os-x/merging-two-partitions-on-a-mac-hard-drive-into-one-partition ^[5]

Tip 6 - How to Create, Merge, Resize Partitions on Mac

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dev Anand | permalink

Creating new partitions on the Mac is really easy one. Also you can resize, delete, merge partions from any internal and external hard drives in Mac OS X....

For further reading: http://www.iphonetopics.com/mac-partition-hard-drive/ ^[6]

Tip 7 - How to Resize an Existing Volume with Disk Utility

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by ALPHA OUATTARA | permalink

Disk Utility has the ability to add, delete, and resize hard drive partitions without erasing data. If you need to resize a partition, or split a partition, this guide will tell you how.

For further reading: http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilitysize.htm ^[7]