[G4] Need to Re-Do Partitions

[Richard Ramsowr]

John

This should work - using your "backup" utility save
the smaller drive (60GB) to your external drive (160
GB) then clean and reformate the drive without
partitions and set it up as your OX 9 drive. Then do
the same for the 80GB drive and use it for your OS X
"bootable" Drive. Your external drive can then be used
as your storage and backup drive.

or

Buy a new 120GB and get rid of the small drive (60GB)

I have two 120GB on my QS with a 240GB FW extrernal

By the way the QS does care which position your
bottable drive  is in. I started of with it in the
lower postion and now it;s in the upper position -
because of upgrades and switches.

Please for your peace of and mine get a second and
third opinion - I sure someone out there can speak to
this issue better than I

rick thefireguy

--- John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 05/28/06, Jim Thornton <jimthornton at mac.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running OSX 10.4.6 on a Quicksilver 733 with
> two internal hard drives
> > (60 and 80GB) and an external FW/USB2 160GB drive.
> >
> > I originally partitioned my two internal drives
> into two volumes each, but
> > now believe such partitioning was a mistake; I'm
> running out of space on
> > some of the volumes, since I sized them poorly. I
> would like to use the
> > external drive to temporarily hold the stuff from
> one of the internal drives
> > while I wipe the internal clean and turn it into a
> single partition, then
> > move the stuff (system, apps, and/or data) back
> onto the original drive --
> > after I turn it into a single volume.
> >
> > Can this be done? (Seems like it would be doable,
> but I don't want to forget
> > something.)
> >
> > I have ProSoft Engineering's Data Backup; perhaps
> I could just do a simple
> > "back up entire volume" to the external drive --
> but what about restoring it
> > to a new/different volume than it came from?
> >
> > I have one volume with OS9 on it, I'd want to keep
> this capability, although
> > I almost never boot into OS9. Another volume has
> OSX, my apps, and most of
> > my data on it. The other two volumes have just
> data. I have plenty of space
> > on the external drive.
> 
> What's on the ext FWHD? If only data, then collect
> it into a single folder.
> Then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS X volume
> to it-it won't touch the
> data folder. Then, boot into the FWHD volume and
> ensure that it works just like
> the original. If that works like it should, create
> three additional folders;
> one for OS 9 and one each for the other data files.
> Open each of those volumes,
> select all, and drag and drop to their respective
> folders. Launch Disk Utility,
> repartition each internal HD, and clone the clone to
> one of them. Open the OS 9
> folder, select all, and drag & drop to the other HD.
> Put the data wherever.
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