Photoshop 5.5 question on formatting

I need to create a billboard for 14' x 48' billboard, I have all the elements created in Photoshop (5.5)
How do I set this up this without losing resolution? Can I create in inches then flatten and save as EPS?
Please don't tell me to do it in Illustrator..not my best skill.

That's way too vague. You have not told us anything about your actual DPI requirements and how you have created your artwork. Pixels are pixels and any resampling/ resizing will inevitably affect quality, so what you have to do will ultimately really depend on the specifics. A photo has different priorities and would require different up-rez methodology than abstract graphical art. And be under no illusion - just saving to a format like EPS does nothing magical - it still will only contain your pixels at the size and resolution they were created.
Mylenium

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Use Apple's Disk Utility in the Applications/Utilities folder to format the drive.
The programs on the drive given to you by the manufacturer is likely backup software (or malware) and essentially worthless, it will be wiped when you format the drive.
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Get another hard drive that is equal to or slightly larger than your boot drive.
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This is better than TimeMachine as a bootable clone is bootable in case your internal drive fails to boot the machine.
Use the first drive for storage and be very gentle with it while it running, like you should do for all hard drives as they are subjective to shock damage.
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