Hi there: I want to put a small partition on the hard drive, which currently 
does not have one, so I can boot in Tiger on the occasions I need to run 
something that isn't up-to-date enough for 10.6. I stuck a copy of the entire 
HD as it stands onto my (FireWire) backup drive, using Carbon Copy Cloner. My 
next steps are to reformat the main drive and then put everything back as it 
was. I assume that I need to boot from either the backup drive or the install 
disc in order to do the reformat and partition, but at that point is it better 
to reinstall from the install disc or copy the backup back onto the main HD? 
Logically I can't see how to install from the install disc and still be able to 
get all the settings where they were, since the drive I'm altering will be 
empty and won't have anything for the installation to archive-and-install...but 
maybe putting the cloned copy back on the main drive does something funky that 
I don't know about?

As always, my thanks in advance!


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Bill Spencer in Maryland
IMac Core Duo 2.4 ghz/1 g RAM/Snow Leopard
IMac Core Duo 1.83 ghz/1 g RAM/Snow Leopard

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