[X4U] Erase and Setup

[Jens Selvig]

Perhaps purchasing an external firewire drive and using Carbon Copy  
Cloner or Super Duper to make a copy of your internal startup drive.  
Boot from the firewire drive to be sure everything is working well, if  
so, reformat you internal hard drive and then copy back from the  
external firewire drive.

I am not such a big fan of partitioning drives now. A long time ago it  
was probably a useful technique but now the OS handles large numbers  
of files much more elegantly.

You can buy a firewire enclosure and drive separately and build your  
own external firewire device inexpensively these days.

Jens

Jens Selvig
...Lost in Montana...

On Feb 11, 2008, at 6:56 AM, Dan A Currie wrote:

> As I said previously I am driving an MDD DUAL 1.25 MHz / 2 GB RAM /  
> 320 GB HD's / NETSCAPE 7.2 / OS X.4.7, has been telling me for a  
> week now that my HD is almost FULL.  The two HDD's are setup this  
> way, 1 - 120GB in 3 partitions - 20GB w/19.75GB used is the OS and  
> Apps HD, 40GB w/11.4 used and 60Gb w/30 used. The other HDD is 200GB  
> for video storage and editing.
>
> I have managed to move or remove all items from the 40GB and 60GB  
> partitions and have freed up 25GB on the 200GB HD.
>
> Is it possible to just copy the OS and Apps HD to the 200GB storage  
> disk, TEMPORARILY, and then erase and set up new partitions and then  
> move the OS and Apps back to the cleaned HD?
>
> TIA,