Partition Hard Disk without reformating! Please!

Hi i just bought a macbook pro and I target firewired
my macbook to old g4, got all my apps. But all my video and audio is on a 2nd drive and I need to partion my new macbook to copy over those files but I dont want reformat my macbooks HD. I have techtool pro 4.5.2 - but It doesnt partition the drives
Any help most appreciated!! Thanks /alexis

Why do you "need" to partition your MacBook? Why not just create a folder and copy the stuff you want into it? The only reason to break up all the lovely space on an internal drive is if you want to boot to two different OSes, for instance, have Tiger on one partition and Leopard (when it comes out) on another. There is no reason to create a separate partition just for data. And if you partition a startup drive, you inevitably discover, at some point down the road, that the partitions are the "wrong" size and you should have done it differently. If you routinely create huge media files the best plan is to have a separate drive to store them and, when you finish the project and no longer need the files, reformat the drive. But if you just have video files and audio files that you watch/listen to, you don't need to do that, nor to have them on a separate partition.
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