Hard Drive Management and Partition

Hello,
I am interested creating a few partitions on my HD. My goal is to have one with the OS | Scratch Disk | Applications | Downloads & other files. Currently I only have one partition which contains the boot volume Of course the other factory partitions are there too. I am going to attempt to do this first by creating blank partitions for the OS | Scratch Disk |Applications with a utility called iPartition. My assumption before attempting it is that I can either install the OS in the new partition or recover my current OS in the new partition. Then I was wondering if I can just drag the applications to a different partition from the exisintg older location. If this is not possible is the only way to approach this is start from scratch? Can the applications be located outside of the Applications folder in the OS partition? Thanks.
-Sunnah-

You asked; "Then I was wondering if I can just drag the applications to a different partition from the exisintg older location. " and "Can the applications be located outside of the Applications folder in the OS partition?"
It is highly recommended that applications not be moved from the Applications folder. In fact many applications will no longer work correctly if moved.
Exactly what do you hope to gain with partitioning of the disk?
It has been my experience that if you do not have a valid reason for partitioning then it is to be avoided.
Allan

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Empty the Trash.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045
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HI,
My hard drive crashed, and I am using mountain lion. And I need to replace the hard drive.
I bought my MacBookPro early 2012, so no installation DVD for lion!
Found some people showing how to do it, but it needs my OS to be running and download a copy of mountain lion through the App store, which I can't run it anymore?
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