So, I knew there was something else I needed to ask about replacing the hard drive in my C500. In formatting the new one, there are two choices, I think, HFS and HFS+ (is that right?). The current drive is HFS. Which way should I have the new one? Would choosing HFS+ affect other data I would be reinstalling that had been created in HFS? I don't understand this piece at all.
HFS+ is much better at dealing with large volumes - there is a lot less wasted space than with HFS as the volume size increases. It was introduced with MacOS 8.1. Changing volume formats should not affect any of your software that utilizes the disk thru the OS - i.e. the OS gets the data for the application and the application has no idea what sort of filesystem it is on. One exception to this that I remember is that the original CDROM Tooolkit driver that shipped with our machines cached data directly to disk and was unworkable (with cacheing enabled) on a HFS+ filesystem. You need to have OS 8.1 or better to utilize a HFS+ volume.
And is there anything else I need to remember before all this gets going next week?
backup, backup, backup ;)
tom
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