On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 11:29 PM, F. Mortes wrote: > - can I partition this external HD and install MacOS X so that it's > bootable? > - will I be able to import DV footage with iMovie straight onto it > (bypassing my internal HD)? I don't know the answer to these questions, but I do know it's not recommended to have your system disk and your scratch disk be the same. Why do you want to have both your footage and system on an external? Daniel ************************** Daniel Beck danielbeck at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/danielbeck/ Tadayoshi Video Productions dbeck at tvp.jp.com http://tvp.jp.com Video solutions in Tokyo