As mentioned on another thread I have purchased a - oop! sorry, hit the
wrong button!!
As mentioned on another thread I have purchased a 2TB WD My Book Studio
with Firewire 800. If I partition it into two 1TB parts can neither, one
only or each partition be a bootable backup?
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Hi Merv,
Yes, you can have as many bootable partitions as will fit on your drive. Format
the partitions as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and use Carbon Copy Cloner or
SuperDuper to make bootable copies.
Cheers,
Carlo
On 27/04/2012, at 15:19 , Merv Bond wrote:
As mentioned on another thread I
Hi Merv,
Just adding to Carlo’s reply.
In order to boot from an Intel based or PPC based Mac, you may need to change
the partition map.
The bootable partition Map for PPC is (APM) Apple Partition Map which is
Apples default.
The Intel based Macs require (GUID) “GUID Partition Table to be
Thanks Ronni, Carlo and Bob.
From your responses I gather that having made a GUID Partition Table I
must then format each partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Have I got it right?
Merv
On 27/04/12 3:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Merv,
Just adding to Carlo’s reply.
In order to boot from
Yes Merv,
Mac OS Extended (Journaled) GUID Partition Table
If you need anymore information I have on my website a PDF I created “How To:
Format Partition External Drive for Time Machine”.
Even though you will not be using Time Machine to backup to this drive as Time
Machine is NOT bootable.
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