Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy ...

Some Intel Mac users are finding that their drive is partitioned using the wrong scheme.

Disk Utility happily repartitions the entire drive into one large partition – always using the APM scheme, or always unbootable on an Intel-based Mac. Ideally Erase would ask the user for the ...

Select any partition that you plan to use as a startup disk for the Mac OS and click on the "Options" button to set its partition as GUID.

Depending on the partition scheme, these are the file systems Mac OS 10.4 supports: Mac OS Extended or HFS+ is an improved version of Apple's Hierarchical File System from the mid-1980s.

Before we begin the encryption process, your Mac’s internal startup drive must have Lion’s Recovery HD partition, which appears if you formatted your drive using the GUID partition scheme, as ...

I want to partition the card so I can use it for an OS install disk (Mac OS Extended GUID) in one partition and as a camera disk (MS-DOS FAT) in the other partition.

When you want to format a hard drive, it helps to know the difference between a partition and a drive.