Jens Selvig wrote: > 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: Sometimes it is just knowing how to ask the question. Went here!! http://www.macinstruct.com/node/147 Later, Dan