You may even be able to resize without formatting. I'm sure that's what I did.
Sent from my iPhone On 3 Jan 2013, at 21:53, Slau Halatyn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]>: >> >>> 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 <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> 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 <[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <!-- [email protected] --> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
