[Ti] About to take the X 1.3 plunge

[David]

On 1/24/04 8:50 AM, "Mark Swanson" <mswanson9988 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I just got Osx 2.3, downlaoded the 1.3.2 update, and ccc'd my drive to
> a external firewire drive.  When I boot from the firewire drive,
> everything looks exactly like booting from the internal drive.  I've
> tested applications; safari, mail, word etc. and everything works.  My
> question is can I reformat the internal drive or is OS X creating the
> illusion that the external drive looks and acts like the original
> internal.  I know this might sound a little silly, but I don't want
> toreformat the drive and find out the external drive only looked like
> it was running things.  The external drive is at the top of the drive
> list and window but I can't eject the main drive "because it is in use"
> This makes me worry that it is still contributing to what I'm seeing
> and how its acting.  I don't want to loose what I have on my original
> drive.
> 
Mark-
It is likely that you are running a utility (like SuitCase) whose
configuration is pointing to a specific file. Since that file is active you
can't unmount it. To test this, log back in without your start up utilities
running.

david

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