A related question to my last one.

I now have an upgraded MacBook hdd (500GB, thank you Sam) and a 1.5 TB
ext HDD for back ups which temporarily will also have a clonable copy
until I can get round to getting a suitable extra hdd for the clone.

Which leaves me with a partitioned 500GB HDD which is currently home
to TM backups for both iMac and MacBook. (it was partitioned and up
and running before I reslused partitioning was unnecessary)

I would like to unpartition the current backup drive whilst
maintaining the TM files. I assume Disk Utility would sort the
partitions but would wipe the drive?  If that is the case, can I just
copy the back up files to the new 1.5tb drive, reformat the old one
and copy the iMac files back again, thus having a permanent connection
with the iMac?

Will the iMac then recognise the files as belonging to it?

The same process then could be used for the MacBook TM files except I
wouldn't have to copy them back over of course.  Again, does TM
automatically recognise the files as being for the MacBook?

Thanks for any comments


Russell

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