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 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?
> Comment appreciated.
> Merv
> 
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