cesare- great thought with the partitioning. have you done any tests with starting up from other drives or from cds to see if the rest of the drive gets corrupted at all? Glad to hear of your success sandor On May 7, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Cesare Cioni wrote: >> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 06:58:58 -0400 >> From: sr ferenczy <srf7425 at rit.edu> >> Subject: Re: [G4] adding HD capacity... >> Message-id: <35826E46-9E83-11D8-9F32-00039351C4CC at rit.edu> >> >> i would highly advise NOT using the Intech drivers. too many possible >> problems if the drivers dont load and you access data on the large >> drive. > > Well, I have been using them for a couple of month and they work very > well. > the trick is to make the first partition UNDER 120GB - THIS partition > will be usable by any driver (you can verify with the OSX install > disk) - in the second part I keep non-critical files (scrap, partially > rendered files, backups) just in case. > > Cesare