Changing Drives

A while back I had a larger second drive installed as I was reaching the peak of the original drive. I recently tried to install an application on the original drive, but don't have enough memory. The second drive has been used as my Time Machine backup, but it still has quite a bit of memory left. When I attempted to make the second drive the start-up disk to install the application, I got nowhere and had to reboot from the installation disk to set the startup disk back to the older drive. I'm thinking I could partition the larger drive just a little freaked at any consequences. Can I partition the larger drive and leave the backup, or should I just not freak, partition and do a backup on one of the partitions. Have never partitioned before am a bit wary.

It's a very bad idea to put active things (apps, data, etc.) on your Time Machine drive.
If they're in the same partition, Time Machine can't back them up, and they'll be competing for the same space. See #3 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
If they're in a different partition, Time Machine can back them up, but that's not much better -- when that drive fails (and they all do, sooner or later), you risk losing both the original and the backup.
One option is to archive some old stuff off the main drive, to make room (your OSX drive should have 15% or more free).
Or, since you have a desktop Mac, get a large external HD, at least 2-3 times the size of all your data, and use it for your backups. Then you can erase the second internal drive and use it for the stuff that won't fit on the first one, and use Time Machine to back up both internals.

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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Click the start button and then run, or Win+R.
Type "diskmgmt.msc" without the quotes and then click OK.
Right-click on any partition or optical disk drive and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths...".
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Start by writing a script to change the label and see how that goes.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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See attached:
Hope this helps
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