Hi Krister, OK, use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to clone your internal drive to the external drive. To be truly diligent, it would be best to make yet a third copy onto some other drive as well since you'll be erasing the original internal drive. If you really, truly wanted to get super geeky about it, I'd format the first external drive to be a bootable drive. In Disk Utility, you'll need to create a single partition first then click the Options button to make sure the drive is a bootable partition.
After making the clone, boot into the external drive just to make absolutely sure the system is all there and your files are as well. Now, you can erase the internal drive and use Disk Utility to partition the internal drive into 2 partitions. Depending on your drive size, you can allocate a smaller size to the Lion partition. If you're only running Pro Tools on that drive, you can get away with 30 GB or so. I'd give it as much as you can reasonably afford, however. It's not a bad idea to have 50 GB or 100 GB available on that partition, of course. Go through the steps to install Lion as well as Mountain Lion on the other partition. For the Mountain Lion installation, you'll be asked whether you want to pull in information from from another computer or hard drive. That's when you point to the external drive and suck in your previous operating system's data. The Mac Visionaries list can help with questions about the installation process. Cheers! Slau On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, again many thanks. Time for next stupid newby question: How would one go > about formating an internal drive in the way you suggest on the Mac? Isn't > there a risk that i lose all data on my 1 tb internal drive or that apps > installed now won't work after formating? I can back up everything, i think, > because i've got a 2 TB Readynas to which i can move important documents and > stuff. What's your suggestion there? > /Krister > > 3 jan 2013 kl. 19:57 skrev Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi Krister, >> >> While that setup will technically work, your internal drive will become >> fairly fragmented over time. Again, it'll work but I'm not sure if it'll be >> adequate. If you're just doing a few tracks for fairly small projects, I >> suppose it'll suffice. One other thing to consider is that most internal >> drives are 5400 rpm unless they're desktop models. You really should be >> using 7200 or 10,000 rpm drives. Just a suggestion: why not partition your >> internal drive to dual boot and just use the external drive for backup/media? >> >> cheers, >> >> Slau >> >> On Jan 3, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> Hi and thanks for the tip. I'm more and more leaning towards the following >>> setup: External 1 TB drive as bootup with system and PT on it and my >>> internal drive as a media drive. Would that be advisable? Sorry for asking >>> similar sounding questions, i just wanna be sure i'm doing the right thing. >>> Please keep in mind, i'm a total newby when it comes to PT. IVe only used >>> digital portastudios in the past and also have attempted with various >>> results to use sonar. >>> >>> /Krister >>> >>> 3 jan 2013 kl. 19:03 skrev Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Hi Krister, >>>> >>>> The makers of Pro Tools have always recommended using a separate drive for >>>> media and advise not using the boot-up drive. That doesn't mean Pro Tools >>>> won't work. It'll record fine for limited numbers of tracks with few >>>> plug-ins and relatively short lengths. The more you use the internal >>>> drive, the more it will become fragmented. While that isn't generally a >>>> problem under OS X, it all depends on the volume of work we're talking >>>> about. Put it this way, for small things, it's OK but not advisable. A >>>> studio would never record to the boot-up drive. It's asking for trouble. I >>>> would follow the manufacturer's recommendations and keep the boot-up drive >>>> and media drive separate. >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> >>>> Slau >>>> >>>> On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ahem, not sure i catch your drift there. How is your setup? My thought >>>>> was to dedicate an external drive for PT and the operating system, but do >>>>> i need another disk for the recordings? Can i not use the internal one >>>>> for that, or is there a problem with that? >>>>> /Krister >>>>> >>>>> 3 jan 2013 kl. 14:30 skrev Chris Norman <chris.norm...@googlemail.com>: >>>>> >>>>>> PT needs another drive to record onto? I'm using 1 HD here, and PT has >>>>>> ran fine for the last 2 years or so LOL. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> On 03/01/2013, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Hi, Things are never easy are they?:-) Ok, next question then is how >>>>>>> big a >>>>>>> partition do i need in order for ProTools to function correctly? I'll >>>>>>> have >>>>>>> to try to reorganize things on my internal hard drive. Lucky i have a >>>>>>> readynas to play with. >>>>>>> /Krister >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 3 jan 2013 kl. 02:32 skrev TheOreoMonster <monkeypushe...@gmail.com>: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> either the partitioning of the internal drive to have 2 versions of >>>>>>>> OSX or >>>>>>>> running it off an external drive. but remember pro tools will want >>>>>>>> another >>>>>>>> separate physical drive for recording thats not the drive with the OS >>>>>>>> on >>>>>>>> it. So if you go the External HD route for Lion, you will i believe >>>>>>>> still >>>>>>>> need a second external hd for recording drive. >>>>>>>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:14 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi folks. >>>>>>>>> This week i'll probably get my protools with MBox bundle. My situation >>>>>>>>> will be a bit on the odd side, you see i'm running an IMac with >>>>>>>>> Mountain >>>>>>>>> lion v10.8.2 and i don't want to downgrade, however something in PT is >>>>>>>>> broken under Mountain lion which means i can't use PT as far as i >>>>>>>>> understand. I had originally thought i would use a virtual machine >>>>>>>>> with >>>>>>>>> an earlier OsX version in it, but that may not be the ideal solution >>>>>>>>> for >>>>>>>>> this, so what is the best option for running Mountain lion for my >>>>>>>>> non-musical work and an earlier os for PT? A partition on my internal >>>>>>>>> hard drive?, a bootable external hard drive? Will the latter option >>>>>>>>> be as >>>>>>>>> good as an internal hard drive in terms of speed and so forth. I've >>>>>>>>> got >>>>>>>>> an external WD MYbook Studio with 1 TB that i could format and make >>>>>>>>> it a >>>>>>>>> disk for music, would that work? >>>>>>>>> What other options are there? >>>>>>>>> /Krister >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Take care, >>>>>> >>>>>> Chris Norman. >>>>>> >>>>>> <!-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
