When you partition a hard drive you "lose" some of the space to the drivers that the system needs to install. Your back-up partition should be several gigs larger that your system to allow for the drivers and to allow for more files you might add in the future. Try re-partioning yuor 259 GB drive into something like 59/200.
On Nov 4, 7:56 pm, Wilton Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I bought a 259GB external disk to use for backing up my internal 80GB > > HD on my eMac, which is using OS 10.5.5. One of my friends on the > email circuit recommended that I divide the disk into two partitions, > one the same size as my internal HD ( 80GB ) and the other what was > left. They said I should connect the larger one to the Time Machine so > it will be constantly up to date. I should backup the smaller one > every month or so to bring it up to date. Imagine my surprise today > when I switched to the smaller backup partition and got a message that > I needed 42.4 GB and I only had 41.5GB, so I couldn't backup. > Any suggestions? > Thanks > > Wilton > Wilton Shaw > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
