How to format or partition backup HD
info on steps to take preparing external 300gig maxtor HD, need to save selected folders,documents and iTunes music_ also bookmarks if possible to free up space on internal HD_ asking for guidance on how to start and complete task.
Partitioning an External Disk...
1. Connect the drive to your computer and turn on the drive.
2. Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.......
3. Select the physical volume (not any partition) in the left pane.
•Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area, lower.left If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.
4. Click the”Partition” tab. You will see a graphical representation of the disk in the Volume Scheme display.
5. Select the number of partition(s) from the “Volume Scheme” pop-up menu. The Volume pane at the left will change to reflect the number of partitions.
6. You can resize each partition by....
• Click on a partition and then type a size in the Size field in Volume Information..
• or grab the resize tab at the bottom of a partition in the Volume display and drag it up or down. (The Size field in the Volume Information box will change to reflect the new size)
• In the Volume Scheme area, you can check “Split” button ....or chech the”Delete” button to delete that partition.
7. Clicking on any partition will result in the Volume Information display giving you boxes in which the partition’s name, size and format info are typed in.
8. Name: your choice
Size: Clicking on that partition shows the size...
Format: Mac Extended or Mac Extended (Journaled)
Mac OS Standard (OS 9 and earlier)
Unix File System (UFS)
9. To prevent any changes to the partitioning scheme..
• Click the padlock in Volume Scheme or.....
• Check “Lock for Editing” in the Volume Information area.
10. Click on the Erase button..... If you change your mind, click on “Revert” button, otherwise select “Partition” button at the bottom....
• A dropdown sheet appears, click “Partition” or “Cancel”
11. If partition is selected, the Volume will dismount from the desktop and mount again when partitioning is done
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External drive, how to format and partition?
Hey everybody!
I'm about to buy an external drive for my mac. I am reasonably capable on a computer, but I've never done formatting or partitioning so I have two questions:
1) I just want to check that I do not need to buy a mac-formatted drive. A little big of googling told me I could do the formatting myself with Disk Utility, just wanted to double check that that was true.
2) Once I get my external drive, what I want to do is create two partitions within that drive, one for my Time Machine backup and one for random files and movies. I'm not sure how to do that (apparently I might need to pick different formats for each in Disk Utility?) so if anybody could help out that would be brilliant.
Thanks
(if that helps, I have a MacBook Pro with a 512GB hardrive, and I want to buy a 1TB external drive)Hi,
Here is a link that will help you set up your external drive. http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-set-up-an-external-hard-drive-for-use-with-os- x/
You won't need different formats for Time Machine backups and storage space partitions. However, given the size of your hard drive, 500 gb for Time Machine may not be enough. You could buy a separate one for Time Machine, budget permitting.
Check the size of your startup disk, and if it is only 250 gb or less, then 500 gb for Time Machine may be OK, for a while. It will soon fill up, but the older backups will be erased.
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How to format boothcamp partition
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ThxUse Boot Camp Assistant. Select the menu option to remove Windows and return the drive to a single OSX partition. Do not use Disk Utility, it will mes up your drive and you will need to reinstall OSX. Make a backup of your data before you start.
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Hi All,
I want to install ASM on my RHEL machine. There is one disk which has been partitioned into regular filesystem as follows:
[root@*** /]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 644.2 GB, 644245094400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 78325 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 26 57392 460800427+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 57393 61471 32764567+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda4 61472 78325 135379755 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 61472 78325 135379723+ 83 Linux
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Regards,
VinodSenthilKumar - Oracle wrote:
It can be done as below:
#fdisk /dev/hda
p
--To print partitions
d
--To delete partition, chose 2[This will erase the contents in it]
n
--Create new partition
choose p to create primary partition
now /dev/hda1 can be used as ASM disk.
#chown oracle:oinstall /dev/hda1
login to ASM and update the asm_diskstring to include this disk and run "select* from v$asm_disk" we can see this new disk as CANDIDATE Or Provisioned
Thanks,
Senthil
Dangerous - the default partition type of a newly created partition is ext3. Which means the kernel will view that partition as a regular file system - and will attempt to mount and use it. A sysadmin will not know, looking at the type of partition, that it is not an ext file system, but in fact a raw device.
One needs to avoid this confusion - as it easily can trash your entire database's storage (diskgroup). With the only option being to restore backups that likely is out of date, or non-existent. (given the lackadaisical attitude to use a file system partition as a raw device, it is a reasonable assumption that backups are in a similar sorry state)
PS. and the question was how to use /dev/hda2 - you described removing that partition and then using /dev/hda1 (which will likely trash the root file system). -
How much should I partition for Time Machine/Backup?
Hi all,
I upgraded my PB G4 HD to a 160GB recently and have just purchased a 1TB External HD. How much should I partition in the external to be used for Time Machine backup purposes of my internal HD? Will the same size suffice, or should I allocate more?
Also, I was thinking of formatting the drive so that it's both Windows and OS X friendly, but that means formatting it to MS-DOS something (I was just reading about it in another thread), will that cause any issues for the partition for Time Machine that I created? Thanks.Also, I was thinking of formatting the drive so that it's both Windows and OS X friendly, but that means formatting it to MS-DOS something (I was just reading about it in another thread), will that cause any issues for the partition for Time Machine that I created? Thanks.
That's not practical. If you want to use the hard drive on a Windows machin while still being useful for Time Machine you should use MacDrive.
I upgraded my PB G4 HD to a 160GB recently and have just purchased a 1TB External HD. How much should I partition in the external to be used for Time Machine backup purposes of my internal HD? Will the same size suffice, or should I allocate more?
I would make the partition at least twice the size of the internal drive. Preferably, you would want 50 GB for a Leopard install that includes just the base operating system so you can boot off the 50 GB to recover your Time Machine data if your Leopard installer disc ever becomes unusable.
Also since you have a Powerbook, your 1 TB hard drive should be Firewire. USB will not boot Powerbooks. If it is USB only, you can remove the external hard drive case and replace it with one compatible with the drive inside that case from http://www.macsales.com/ that has Firewire. -
Partition format for bootable backup
I am running Tiger on my G4 and MBP, and also running SL on the MBP off an external HD (don't ask).
I want to make a third bootable backup copy of my HDs for my G4 and MBP on one HD that I will partition for both of the computers and the 2 systems on the MBP using SuperDuper to do the backup.
If I choose GUID format, all the partitions will be GUID. I know I can only choose one format for all the partitions.
Can the G4 be booted from a GUID formatted HD?
Or should I do the backup in Apple HFS+ Journaled (do I remember the term correctly?) in which can will it be bootable on the MBP?
Help please - I need to do this asap before I leave town so I can put the new backup in our safe deposit box.
Thanks,
Mrs HBDAqua wrote:
Hi there, That is done on the Erase tab, before you can even Partition it.
As Niel said...
HFS+ = Format
APM = Partition scheme
BDA - stick with me here, I'm confused. Let me explain:
I finally remembered that the Help for "Partition" is found in DU help. And I know I've done this before but I can't figure out format and scheme now.
Here's some of what it says in Help - and I don't see how it links to what's been suggested here.
Sorry to be so stupid - I just want to get this done once and right and I don't want to have to re-do it once it's done. And I'm running out of time before I leave the country. (btw - I know you don't like LaCies but I've had good luck with them - the HD I just got for storing in our safe deposit box is a tiny 1TB Rikiki Go - fits in the palm of my hand, very cool1)
From Help, I begin quoting step 5 here - *my question/comments
-Select the disk in the list that you want to partition, and click Partition.
*so far so good - but is this after I choose erase? - I recall to get to partition I have to choose erase.
-Choose the number of partitions from the Volume Scheme pop-up menu....
*no problem
-Click each partition and type a name for it, _choose a format_, and type a size...
*does this mean each partition can have a different format? I recall when I tried to format the last HD I partitioned, once I chose GUID it made every partition (volume?) be that and I couldn't have different partitions be different formats.
Here is where I should choose format HFS + ??? Is this a choice?
-If you’ll be using a volume as a Mac OS 9 startup disk, select the checkbox to install the Mac OS 9 drivers.
*one partition (volume??) I'd like to be able to use as OS 9 startup in an emergency - but not all, esp since 2 segments (volumes?) are from Intel Mac.
-If you’ll be using a volume as a Mac OS X startup disk, click Options, and choose the appropriate partition scheme. To use a volume to start up an Intel-based Mac, choose the GUID partition scheme. To use a volume to start up a PowerPC-based Mac, choose the Apple partition scheme.
*Here's where things got tricky - last time I couldn't have one section (volume?) be GUID and one not -
so here's where a QUESTION is - if I want this to be able to backup G4 and MBP and be able to bootable for the HD for which each is a clone - what do I select as scheme - APM??? - and will this work for both???
Help please -
Mrs H -
Need to format the partition for Boot Camping to NTFS. How do I do this?
So yes, I have searched online to find a way to format the partitioned to NTFS so I can Boot Camp my Mac Mini and have found nothing that I can use. Instead, all I have found are horror stories of others messing up their Macs when doing this. I want to be sure I do this as correctly as possible because I do adore my computer.
For Boot Camping, I have followed the steps and started the installation of Windows 7 but when it comes to choosing the partition it says I can't because it's not in NTFS format. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.Heh! Yes, it's one of those things that are simple, once you know where to look. Glad you got it figured out.
You won't quite be done once Win 7 is done installing. You'll notice that the graphics in Windows likely won't be very good, and in general running kind of slow. That's because the Windows DVD had no drivers for Mac hardware.
So you need your Snow Leopard disk. Either the first gray disk your Mac came with, it if shipped with Snow Leopard, or the retail disk you purchased.
From the Windows 7 desktop, put the Snow Leopard disk in the drive. Windows will pop up the usual message about what you want to do with an external drive. Choose "Run Setup". It will run for a while as the drivers for your Mac hardware are installed for Win 7.
Once that's done, you'll have menu icon for Apple Software Update. Run that to see if it needs to download and install any other Boot Camp updates, which would any updated Win 7 drivers for you Mac. -
Can someone please tell me how to format a new disk to ZFS format?
I have a Sun v240 with Solaris 10 update 8 installed on a single 73GB harddisk. Everything is working fine. I just purchased a another identical harddisk online. I plugged the disk into my v240 and ran 'devfsadm' and solaris found the new disk. I want to add this disk to my existing ZFS pool as a mirror. However, this disk was originally formatted with a UFS file system. So when I run:
zpool attach rpool c1t0d0 c1t1d0I get:
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 contains a ufs filesystem.I understand the error message but I don't know how to format the disk to have a ZFS file system instead. Note that I am extremely new to Solaris, ZFS, and pretty much everything Sun - I bought this server on eBay so that I could learn more about it. It's been pretty fun so far but need some help here and there.
For some reason I can't find a single hit on Google telling me how to just simply format a disk to ZFS. Can I use the 'format' command? Maybe you don't "format" disks for ZFS? I have no idea. I might not have the right terminology. If so, apologies. Can anyone help me on this?
Thanks a lot! =D
JonathonYes, you were right. The partitions were totally different. Here is what I saw:
For c1t0d0:
# format
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0For c1t1d0:
# format
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 12865 62.43GB (12866/0/0) 130924416
1 swap wu 12866 - 14079 5.89GB (1214/0/0) 12353664
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wm 14080 - 14086 34.78MB (7/0/0) 71232
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0So then I ran the following:
# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.Then I rechecked the partition table for c1t1d0:
# format
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wm 0 - 14086 68.35GB (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0Woo-hoo!! It matches the first disk now! :)
Then I tried to attach the new disk to the pool again:
# zpool attach -f rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0
Please be sure to invoke installboot(1M) to make 'c1t1d0s0' bootable.
Make sure to wait until resilver is done before rebooting.
bash-3.00# zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scrub: resilver in progress for 0h0m, 0.40% done, 0h58m to go
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t1d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 30.3M resilvered
errors: No known data errorsBoo-yah!!! ++Does little dance++
Then, after resilvering completed I ran:
# installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0I think I'm starting to understand this now. I also shutdown the server to the OpenBoot prompt and booted off of the new disk and it worked! Also, my bootup time to login has drastically decreased - I would say it's about half the time it was before I added the mirror disk. So I believe the server is properly reading from both disks simultaneously in order to get better bandwidth. Cool! :)
Thanks for the help!
Jonathon -
Unable to format or partition Toshiba External HD
Hello, hoping someone can help. I had a WD external HD that I was using as my Time Machine backup for my iMac. It crapped out and since that was the second Western Digital that had died on me in 2 years I decided to go with another brand. I got a Toshiba Canvio Slim 500 GB, one that just attaches right to USB port without external A/C adapter for power.
I plugged it in, it was immediately recognized and mounted, and time machine backed up my Mac in about 45 mins. Time machine seemed to be working fine on it for about a week, then all of the sudden it wouldn't recognize it anymore. Wouldn't show up on the desktop, disk utility, nothing. I read a few articles that seemed to suggest it might be a power source issue by the drive trying to draw too much power for the USB cord to handle. So I tried to remedy that by buying a USB hub. I hooked that up, now the drive shows up in disk utility but still won't mount.
I then tried to format the disk in disk utility but that failed giving me an error message that "file system formatter failed." I then tried to partition the disk into one partition and use the GUID partition table as I have an Intel-based Mac. The partition also failed with the same error message that "file system formatter failed."
Any thoughts??? I need help. I can't return it because it has all of my hard drive contents on it now which I don't want to hand over to someone else. But I can't even figure out how to format it and erase it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am running version 10.9.5 of Mavericks.Does the hub have it's own power supply?
Test with & without the hub.
You have tried different USB ports?
You have disconnected other inessential USB devices?
Is it a custom cable? Can you try another?
I'd also try recovery mode (cmd+r at boot, select Disk Utility) to see if that works any better - that could indicate the OS is at fault. -
How to move a partition to the top of Disk Utility pile?
I had Lion and SL installed in two separte partitions. But since I didnt like Lion I decided to erase Lion's partition and then fuse the free left space with the SL partition so I could have more HD space. The thing is disk utility only alows to expanded downwards from the down border of the partition. As you can see I've got tons of free space above Macintosh HD 2. 224GB. I want to move Macintosh HD 2 up so then I can expand it to "catch" all that free space. Do I make any sense? I don't want 2 Partitions, just one! With SL. But I can't expand it up only down
Please help guys Its killing me... didnt find any solution to this particular problem here.
Thanks in advanced
- TiagoLike Neil said, you have to clone your SL off to a external drive, option boot from it, format the internal drive again so it's one partition, then reverse clone SL back onto it.
Doing it all on the same drive is rather risky and might not be possible if the second partition is larger with data than the first. A clone on a external drive will also give bootable backup in case all heck breaks loose.
Important thing is that the entire drive is erased, (select the Toshiba, Western Digital, or Seagate internal "media" on the far left side) as there is a hidden Lion Recovery partition that also needs to be removed.
So you really have 3 (actually 4 counting EFI partition) partitions on your boot drive if Lion is installed so you need to reduce that to two (SL and the hidden EFI, Disk Utility creates)
It's easier than it sounds really, make sure all other drives, media is removed so there are no accidents.
1: get a blank external drive, use Disk Utility to Erase Security Option > Zero All Data and format 1 partition, Option: GUID OS X Extended in the Partition Tab.
2: free Carbon Copy Cloner to clone internal SL to external (default settings are fine for first clone)
3: hold option boot the external SL drive, use Disk Utility (on the external drive!) to erase the whole internal drive media
4: use CCC to reverse clone onto the internal drive
5: use free Onyx and run ALL maintainence and cleaning aspects and reboot at the end when finished (cleans up caches, makes your machine run faster)
http://www.titanium.free.fr/
You can learn all how to do that in my huge thread here
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Use the default format and partition step to format disk0 partition 1 in multiple disks sutiation
As we know,we need to disable the default format and partition step in ts to let mdt deploy os on C and leave the other partitions stay safe when there is only one disk on pc，and the way of installing operation system is logical drive letter store in a varible.
But what if there are 2 disks on pc，and for a record the disk 0 is always the OS disk,don't need to confirmed this.How can we modify the format and partition step to format only C on disk0 under this condition?then lead the mdt to do the rest deployment
by itself.
ThanksYou are pushing up against the design limits of MDT, and the more complex and/or arbitrary the disk configuration the harder it is for MDT to perform installations.
If you want to maintain the *existing* disk configuration, and just update the OS present, then the recommended course of action is to run MDT from *within* the OS (cscript.exe
\\server\deploymentshare$\scripts\litetouch.vbs), not from WinPE. When you do this, it's called a "refresh" scenario. MDT can capture the user files via USMT, and it knows which
partitions to use, because it's launched from within the OS itself.
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Restart with the Command and R keys held down, use the Disk Utility on the recovery partition to erase the main one, and install a new OS.
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How to accelerate by partitioning drives & how to distribute data among 'em
Dear forum,
I have read guide to storage acceleration and guides to phototoshop acceleration, but they always warn that the best solution depends on the work i do, the hardware i have, and the hardware i think i can afford to buy. I'm hoping that if i tell you what photoshop work i do, what hardware i have, and what hardware i'm intending to buy, you can tell me how to accelerate by partitioning my drives and how to distribute data among them. My biggest questions are about how big the volumes should be, and what should go on each volume. It sounds vague here, but I get more specific below:
THE PHOTOSHOP WORK I DO:
*wet-mount raw scans of 6x7 cm film using silverfast software on microtek artixscan 120tf 4000dpi scanner: resulting 16-bit TIFF file is typically 550 MB in size.
*working in Photoshop CS2 on same file, adding multiple layers makes file 1 GB to 1.4 GB in size
*my system's limitations show up most painfully when I OPEN a file (this can take five minutes) SAVE a file (this can take more than ten minutes!), when i FLATTEN the image's layers for printing (this can take 5 minutes), and when i CONVERT the file from 16-bit to 8-bit (this can take 5 minutes). most other operations in Ps CS2 are fast enough (not snappy, but fast enough) for me to stay with my current processor for the time being.
THE HARDWARE I HAVE:
*Power Mac G5 dual 1.8GHz, made in 2004, with only 4 slots for RAM (not 8 slots).
(I'm told this has quite limited bus speed, as compared with other dual-processor G5s, and that this hardware will not benefit much at all from adding a RAID array.)
*one internal seagate 80GB 7200rpm SATA drive. this is half-full (it has 39 GB on it): it holds my OS and my Users folder, but NOT my photoshop image files.
*one internal Western DIgital 400 GB 7200rpm SATA drive. this holds my photoshop image files, but not my user folder.(This WD drive turns out to cause the G5 to hang up occasionally, requiring a re-boot; to avoid this, i recently learned, i can connect it with a host card adapter [see below].)
*two 500 GB external firewire drives
*two 300GB external USB drives
*I have 2.25 GB of RAM, but I'm about to buy 2 more GB to max out at 4GB.
THE HARDWARE I'M INTENDING TO BUY:
*2GB of RAM, of course.
*two Hitachi T7K500 500 GB SATAII HD 16MB Cache 7200rpm drives to occupy both internal drive slots in the G5
*a 2-drive external enclosure to hold my old seagate 80GB drive and my old WD400GB drive.
*a seritek host card adaptor for connecting the external enclosure to the G5.
THE PLAN:
What follows is a combination of suggestions I have received about what I could do and my speculation about how I could do it. Please see my Questions, embedded in the lines below: I'd be very grateful for any amendments or directions you can offer on this topic.
Drive A: first newly internal Hitachi 500GB drive:
partition into 2 volumes:
first (faster) volume, "volume A1," of 100GB to hold OS and Users folder but NOT photoshop image files.
(Question: how much space should I leave free on volume A1 for optimum performance? is 50% free of 100GB optimal? is 60% free of 100GB better? Is 50% free of 150GB better still? or does that cut into the other volume's space too much (indirectly cutting into the space of "volume B1" on Drive B, which is to be the WorkDisk/ScratchDisk)?
second (slower) volume, "volume A2" of remainder GB (almost 400GB) as backup for 400GB "volume B1" of the OTHER internal Hitachi Drive, a.k.a. Drive B.
Drive B: second newly internal Hitachi 500GB drive:
partition into 2 volumes:
first (faster) volume, "volume B1" of almost 400GB as designated WorkDisk/ScratchDisk for large photoshop image files;
second (slower) partition "volume B2" (exactly 100GB) as backup for 100GB volume 1 (OS volume) of the OTHER internal Hitachi Drive, a.k.a. Drive A.
(Question: how much space should I leave free on this WorkDisk/ScratchDisk for optimum performance? is 50% free of almost 400GB optimal? is 60% free of almost 400GB better? Is 50% free of 300GB just as good, with the additional advantage of indirectly allowing "volume A1" on Drive A to be 150+GB?
Drive C: old Seagate 80GB drive, in external enclosure: disk designated for running the Photoshop Application? How would I set this up? any pitfalls to watch out for? should i partition this drive, or leave the whole thing for Photoshop? or is it better to run photoshop off Drive D?
Drive D: old WD 400 GB Drive: second scratch disk? Storage disk? Both storage and scratch disk? how large should an empty volume on this disk be in order to be useful as a scratch disk? volume 1 or volume 2? if i run the Photoshop Application off of this drive, how large should the volume for that be? should it be volume 1, the faster, outside volume, leaving volume 2 for scratch disk space? or vice versa?
External Firewire and USB drives: i guess i'll just use them for storage/archiving and extra backup? or am i much safer buying more SATAs and Enclosures? or are the external firewire and USB drives plenty safe (so long as i double-back up), since i'll only power them up for the data transfer, and then power them back down?
Given that the large Photoshop files are not in my User folder, does it matter whether i keep the User folder (with its MS Word docs and a bunch of PDFs and so on) on my OS volume, "volume A1"? would it speed things up when I'm using photoshop if i moved the Users folder to another drive? what if i'd like to play iTunes while also working on photoshop? my iTunes music folder (with all the song data) is already on an external firewire drive. but the iTunes Library and iTunes application are, of course, in my User folder, which is on the OS drive. would moving the Users folder to another drive make much difference when i use photoshop and iTunes simultaneously?
But I wonder whether it makes sense to be using volume A2 on Drive A as a backup drive: wouldn't it make more sense to back up my working files to two external drives that can be traded out, one on-site and one off-site, back and forth (not so convenient when one of the backup drives is internal!)? and after all, why would i devote a 400GB volume to the task of backing up another 400GB volume that will never be more than half full? I need to leave a WorkDisk/ScratchDisk half empty for efficient use, but i can back up that 200GB of working files on a 200GB volume, right? so for a backup drive, I might as well use a slow, inexpensive external USB drive that will only be tuned on for backup and will then stay powered off, a drive that's easily transportable on and off site, right? or am i misunderstanding something?
by the way, what backup software do you recommend for backing up back and forth between Drive A and Drive B? I've been using Carbon Cpy Cloner. do you recommend that? or something that does more archiving of progressive states of data?
Thank you for any help you can offer!
Sincerely,
Mark Woods
Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 (2.2), 512 KB L2 Cache per CPU, w/ 4 RAM slots Mac OS X (10.3.9) 2.25 GB DDR SDRAM (2x128MB plus 2x1GB)Crossposted: Re: How to use Oracle partitioning with JPA @OneToOne reference?
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I need to know how to format a new HD to install in my Apple TV where I can't use the old HD to clone or otherwise create the new structure on the new HD.
I have an Apple TV that was syncing to a Mac Mini that had a defective HD and logic board. I was unable to backup the Apple TV to the Mac Mini for some time before I had the mini repaired by AppleCare.
When the mini came back, it registered on the Apple TV as a new computer and I couldn't sync with it without losing hundreds of dollars of content.
All was okay until the other night when Apple's defective update for the ATV erased ALL my content. I updated it to 3.1 this morning, which Apple indicated might fix the problem. It didn't. The old content is all gone.
My ATV is out of warranty, so I removed the old HD and copied the files from the "Purchased" folder to my mini. That saved most 101 items that I purchased since 12/08 (but not all for some reason). I lost all content prior to 12/08 that I purchased, as well as some content since 12/08 that I purchased.
I need to keep the old HD untouched until I can purchase data recovery software. I'd like to just put a spare IDE HD in that I have into the ATV and just start over with what is in my Mac mini iTunes.
So, how does one do that? I'm not gifted with vast Unix knowledge or experience and I don't want to clone the old HD and risk losing more data if it writes to the HD for some reason.
Thanks.Hi Atagahi,
Firstly, have you emailed Apple iTunes support indicating your issue? There have been instances in which Apple will allow re-downloading of all content you've purchased on the iTunes store.
Secondly, I highly recommend you get an external usb hard drive, attach it to your mini and use it as a Time Machine drive to keep your iTunes purchases safe. It's a fact of life that all hard disk drives will eventually fail. The Apple TV should never be used as any kind of permanent storage space; think of it as a 'temporary holding' zone. And as you've unfortunately already experienced, a glitch wiped out all content on the Apple TV.
As regards your original question, it seems like there have been folks who've done just that...taken the internal drive in the Apple TV out and attached it to a mac and copied files from the Apple TV hard drive. I have not had to do such, so I cannot offer any help here except for Linda's suggestion on googling the net for solutions.
Good luck and hope you get all your purchased content back Atagahi!
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How to format "My Passport" for Time Machine
I have purchased a 1TB Western Digital My Passport Drive (an external drive connected via USB). How should I format this drive to use it with Time Machine?
I'm running OSX 10.6.8 on an Intel iMac (hardware circa 2005). I have been using Time Machine for several years, rotating through external disks. Thie new disk will replace one of the previous disks which has failed. I have forgotten how I formatted the previous disks. I'm primarily interested in whther to use HFS or whatnot. As to partitioning, the format will just be one partition for the whole disk.
I'm going to see if I can figure this out using Disk Utility, but in the mean time, does anyone have recommendations?
Thanks in advance,
FrankDrive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select the WD Passport drive (entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
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