Whether or not you partition it, I recommend you use the Apple Disk Utility to reformat it, instead of starting out with whatever formatting LaCie used. Just my .02 sb On 8/1/03 5:17 AM, "Doug Mitchell" <bogeyman at golden.net> wrote: > I have just purchased a new 120 GB LaCie Firewire drive. I comes > already formatted for my Mac which is running OSX 10.2.6. I plan on > using this dive for editing video. What are your recommendations on > whether or not I should partition this drive? > > Thank you, > > Doug Mitchell