[X4U] New drive

[Paul Moortgat]

None of my 4 present internal drives are formatted in Guid.  One has a  
system 10.5.8 and I intend to keep it for a long time.
I backup to a non Guid external drive which I can use as a startup for  
the Mac Pro.

Paul Moortgat

On 04 Feb 2010, at 22:30, Chris Long wrote:

> Snow Leopard requires GUID if I remember correctly from an early  
> upgrade that I had to do here at my school.  The drive on a MacBook  
> Pro had been formatted with Apple Partition Map instead so I had to  
> use CarbonCopyCloner to clone, then reformat, then restore, then  
> upgrade.  Anyway I would stick with GUID.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>
>> Is Guid to prefer in all situations internal and external for an  
>> Intel Mac to format?
>> I just received a 1T Hitachi drive to replace a 500 GB internal  
>> Seagate.
>> I think to make 2 partitions.  One to copy the complete startup  
>> disk via SuperDuper, and the other half for daily use.
>> I can format the 1T internally or externally.
>>
>> Paul Moortgat