Hi Laurent,
Thanks a lot! That is real useful advice!!! The external is a 250 GB USB drive. The Pismo still has the original 6 GB HDD. Since I never looked into it, I never even had an idea partitioning like that would make reformatting, erasing etc. on the rest of the HDD possible... That sounds perfect! I think I better do that, and then a complete back up of the Pismo, before even thinking of starting doing the iBook. Saving 13 years worth of files, is more important. Actually, I think I have even more on it, I even kept some files from the PC I had before my first Mac. It is so great to be able to go back and find files. It feels real odd that I am well on my way to filling up this new iBook already, with it`s 60 GB HDD. And I have never before had any HDD bigger than the 6 GB... Things sure change...
I hope it won`t take ages doing back-up to the USB harddisk... I guess I will soon find out how long it takes. I have an ORB here too that I used earlier for back-up, but as it was real slow, I ended out only taking back-up of the most important things. So in order to really utilize back-ups properly, it has to be easy and not too time-consuming, I think...
Aase :)
on 27/01/05 06:50, Aase Marit Waage at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope that you or others can give me some advice, so that I don`t end up with a crisis with it...
If you want to backup your Pismo internal drive, and if you have only one partition on that drive, then there is no need to partition the external drive. Or, if the external drive is much larger than the Pismo internal drive, you could always create a partition on the external one that would be slightly larger than the internal one and use it to backup up the internal. The remaining space could be used as another partition that you could reformat, erase, etc., without any impact on the first backup partition.
-Laurent.
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