Seperate Drive

I might be getting a mac pro soon and I was wondering could I install Vista on a seperate drive?
On My MBP I had to partition my leopard disk for vista on a mac pro instead of partitioning the drive your mac os is on can you partition to use boot camp on a different hdd like hdd 2

If you have a new unformatted disk arriving (the WD Caviar 640GB is down to $85 and great performance) just boot from Vista and format and install. I would pull the OS X drive during this phase.
ie, you can use BootCamp Assistant, or you can format the drive directly.
BootCamp leave the drive partition as FAT so you have to delete/create NTFS where the FAT volume was anyway.

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ITunes - Vista - Music on Seperate Drive

OK so I updated to Vista, and did a clean install. All my music was saved on a seperate drive so that wasn't an issue, or so I thought. I downloaed and installed iTunes last night, and left it sorting through my 140+GB of music. When I got up this AM all I had in itunes were the 6 or so songs Vista installed. How can I import in 1 shot my old shared music file without going album by album? How can I get iTunes to do another search?

File -> Add folder to library.
Or drag the music folder onto the iTunes library in iTunes.

Question about Bootcamp XP install on seperate drive on Mac Pro

I installed a seperate drive for boot camp and while I was running 10.4 it appeared in the control panel and at start with option key. After upgrading to 10.5 it no longer appears under in the control panel, however I can still boot from it by using the option key. Does anyone know how (aside from reinstalling XP) that I can get it back in the control panel?

After you installed Leopard did you then boot up on the Windows side and insert the Leopard CD in the drive so that Windows can update the drivers and boot camp? If not then try that and see if boot camp appears in the control panel after that.
Axel F.

Help with User account on seperate drive please...

Hello... need a little help please...
I'm running 10.5.6. My boot drive is the fast, 64GB outer partition of a 5th drive on my MacPro. I used the Advanced Options in the Account pref pane in Leopard to move my Home Directory to an ultrafast 4 drive internal RAID. So far, so good.
In the past (before this bifurcated system) when I hit the road (I'm a photographer) I would just clone my boot drive which contained my User account to the MBP and go.
However now my System and User accounts are on seperate drives. I cloned the system to the MBP, but when I tried booting, it said it was unable to continue as it couldnt find the User Account. This is understandable as the User account was pointed to another drive, but the boot sequence didnt even give me a choice to create a new user account, or point the system to an existing user account on the MBP.
Seems I've got two choices. Either figure out a way to clone my System and my Home directory to the MBP, and have them recognize each other. Or give up this experiment and bring my Home directory back onto the boot drive.
Of course I could just keep a seperate system on the MBP, but find it much easier to clone the entire thing over from the MP with all my apps, settings, etc.
I'm not a UNIX junkie, but can follow instructions for using the terminal.
Can someone shed some light on this for me?
Thank you !!!!

I don't keep large files in my Home Directory. They live in another partition on the fast RAID.
But I do have lots of little ones. I'm now thinking that this is too much hassle for the small speed gain.
I'll move my home directory back to the boot drive and symlink folders if needed.
Thank you both.

How do I install to seperate drives?

On a pc with WIN7 64 I installed the CS6 programs I use most (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, AE) to the C drive, a ssd. I had the rest of CS6 installed on a 7200rpm drive (drive D) that failed. I have replaced that secondary drive (D) and I'm attempting to reinstall the portion of programs that were previously there. 'Location' is showing C:\Program Files\Adobe and it is greyed out and cannot be edited. I'm not sure if it is because I didn't get the chance to deauthorize or uninstall those programs before the previous drive failed.
If I try to install to the location shown, I get an error and the installer crashes. If I try to uninstall something from the C drive (Photoshop) I get an error and the (un)installer crashes.
I'll mention that I also changed my controller from 'raid' to 'ahci' because I thought that may have been what corrupted the D drive (even though it was not part of the raid).
I'm contemplating looking into using CC Cleaner, but one of the steps is to uninstall programs which I can't seem to do.
I'm contemplating a reinstall of windows.

Drvnk please try running the CC Cleaner Tool to remove the remaining installed components. You can find details on the use of the CC Cleaner Tool at Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6 - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html.
If you continue to face difficulties reinstalling Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and After Effects then please see CC desktop lists applications as "Up to Date" when not installed - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/aam-lists-removed-apps-date.html. These steps will only be effective if the CC Cleaner Tool is able to remove the remaining components of the previous installation.

Dual boot Windows 7 and Arch from 2 seperate drives (UEFI)

Hello everyone, I've been working on installing Arch to a secondary hard drive for the past few hours, but I am trying to make sure I won't mess up my Windows 7 install. I have found several topics talking about dual booting Windows 7 and Arch, but not a whole lot on booting them from separate drives. My drives are currently setup as follows.
sda (120GB SSD for Windows 7)
sda1 (100MB System Reserved NTFS partition)
sda2 (Windows 7 install)
sdb (1TB HDD for Windows programs, files, etc)
sdb1 (1TB NTFS partition)
sdc (1TB HDD)
sdc1 (boot 512MB FAT32)
sdc2 (root 500MB ext4)
sdc3 (home 300GB ext4)
sdc4 (swap 10GB)
rest unallocated "free space"
I used Gparted to create the partitions. I ended up getting hung up on the "Create Filesystems" sections, specifically this line"
# mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sdXY
Now that I am looking at it, I'm thinking the "Create Filesystems" section maybe isn't necessary because I've used Gparted?
If it isn't necessary, when I get to the "mount the EFI System Partition to /boot" section, would I simply use
# mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/boot
instead of
# mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/boot ?
The way I had this setup with Ubuntu was 3 partitions on sdc (/, home, swap) and I set my PC to boot to the sdc drive on startup. The boot loader would then give me the option to boot into Ubuntu or Windows 7, and I never had to alter the sda or sdb drives at all. Is this possible through Arch? My thinking is that even if it isn't, I should still be able to enter the BIOS boot menu and select which drive to boot manually correct? That wouldn't be too big of a deal for me because I spend 90% of my time in Linux, and only use Windows for Photoshop and gaming occasionally.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. I would have just tested this out, but I am afraid of messing up my Windows install.

After several sleepless hours I had to give up and go to bed about 5 hours ago. The installation process went smoothly (or so I thought). I followed the tutorial closely and upon rebooting I was met with a blinking cursor. After some googling I found others who said I should press TAB, but nothing seemed to work.
I rebooted to the iso disk and found the "boot installed OS" option and noticed it said "Press TAB to edit". I then found the boot parameters and tried everything from hd0 0 to hd4 4. I believe I have Grub setup correctly because every option besides hd0 0 either says "Booting..." and then gets stuck, or says "That disk and partition combination does not exist". So yea, I think hd0 0 is the correct boot path, it just gets stuck with the blinking cursor.
silverhammermba wrote:
You have the right idea. You want to install a bootloader on sdc1 which will be able to boot both Arch and Windows.
Your best bet would be to use something like rEFInd. It has a "scanfor" option that should automatically detect your BIOS-configured Windows installation and add a boot option for it. Note that depending on your motherboard, you may have to switch to UEFI-only mode and Windows will be unbootable without the assistance of a UEFI program which is backwards compatible with BIOS (like rEFInd).
Thank you for the link. Considering I can't get into my install and the actual install only took about 30 minutes, I think I am going to just start from the beginning again with REFIndr. It seems much simpler. I only used Grub because I've used it before with Ubuntu, but my very limited knowledge is telling me Grub is probably the problem.
MoonSwan wrote:Just an idea: My bios has a "Boot-up Prompt" which I can invoke when it's POSTing by hitting F11. This brings me to a menu that allows me to choose which drive I want to boot up that day. I use it when Syslinux isn't working properly (Which is right now as a matter of fact ...) in order to boot Windows so I can do some SCII, for example. I, too, dual-boot but I have both OSes on different SSDs. So my 120GB Crucial SSD has Arch on it and the 240GB Kingston has Windows, SCII, Portable Apps, etc and nary the two shall meet. It makes dual-booting easier in the case of a corrupt OS or MBR or what-have-you. You may want to give your Bios a better look to see if you can do the F11 trick. It probably can and will usually tell you so at POST by printing that information on-screen along with your drives-detected and other messages (I hit Pause sometimes to read all the POST messages).
This is exactly what I was talking about doing when I mentioned:
My thinking is that even if it isn't, I should still be able to enter the BIOS boot menu and select which drive to boot manually correct?
That's good to know, because even if this next install doesn't work I think if I pull the other drives I should be able to get it working fairly easily.
Thanks again everyone.

Should captured footage and timeline edit be kept on seperate drives?

i'm new to FCP and have my captured footage and the edited project contained on an external drive... but from the get-go i've been having, what seem to be, memory issues-- everything starts well, but during each new editing session, the thumbnail images on clips entered into the project timeline soon fail to appear. not long after this behavior begins, the clips themselves, while present on the timeline (i know because they play back) are invisible each time i drag them down for editing. after i save the project, shut down and restart, everything is present and back to normal... but once i begin editing, the behavior described above begins to reoccur.
i'm wondering if this issue could be resolved by keeping the project on the apple's internal hard drive while maintaining the captured footage on the external scratch drive... or maybe there's something else going wrong here. any thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
mac g5 Mac OS X (10.3.5) 3.5 gig ram

The generally accepted principle is to keep the
project file on the system drive and all captured
media and render files on a secondary internal (or
external) drive.
Personally I keep my thumbnails on the system drive
as well. They're tiny.
jim, thanks for the response. is there a trick to putting the project and thumbnails on the system drive, keeping them separate from the external scratch drive? or is this easy to figure out? thanks again.
mac g5 Mac OS X (10.3.5) 3.5 gig ram
mac g5 Mac OS X (10.3.5) 3.5 gig ram

2 Itune accounts, seperate drives, same desktop.

Is this possible?
I have a huge E drive (750gb) that houses my Itunes account. My question is can I put my son's Itunes account on my C drive without causing conflicts? (Iphones)
Will the Iphones sync to the proper Itunes without a prompt? I surely don't want my son's music (sounds like a bunch of noise to me) on my phone, nor does he need all my business contacts on his. Or maybe I just need to get him a laptop.

Hi FirFytr - you're running Windows and this is the Mac forum. If you go back up to iTunes in Discussions, you will see there a whole lot of Windows forums there.

How do I sync my old library with a new install of iTunes on a seperate drive?

I just recently installed an SSD on my PC and I want to run iTunes off of the SSD. My library currently resides on my old HDD witch also has the most current version of iTunes on as well. How can I sync the library that resides on my old HDD to the new install of iTunes on my SSD?

can't if you do not have access to the old library (the usual workaround is to backup the old library and import it to the new itunes)
for important data...
sync your existing contacts with icloud, your text messages will not be disrupted, music will sync with whatever music you have on your new itunes, photos shoud still be in the camera roll (I would sync them to photostream before you sync, just in case). Any photos on your phone that are not in camera roll or photostream... if you lost those pictures with the computer crash I would take screen shots (lock button + home button at the same time) of each photo so they show up in the camera roll. App data may or may not be lost. In my experience, it depends on the app. Some of the apps recognize your apple ID and sync data over the internet with servers, some do not. I would take note of important data (such as passwords in a password keeper if you have such an app) just in case if you lose that data.

I am looking to buy a mac mini but am wondering before i buy can i burn dvds and cds on it or do i have to buy a seperate drive

can you burn dvds or cds on a make mini without buying other devices

Mac Mini yes
Mac Mini Server no
So your answer is yes

I want to create for the first time ever an iPhoto library on my Mac Mini from all of my seperate external hard drives over the years. Instead of filling my Mac Mini hard drive space with all of the pics can I import it to a seperate Apple hard drive.

I want to creat for the first time on my Mac Mini an iPhoto library. I have many seperate hard drives with pics I want to import but are concerned I will fill the hard drive with pics alone. Can I install the pics on one larg (1TB) external apple hard drive and use iPhoto functions still with the pics being installed on a seperate drive from the iPhoto OS?

This is our resident iPhoto guru, Terence Devlin's, advice:
You can move your iPhoto Library to an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Once that is done you can import directly into the iPhoto library on the external HD.

This is my first mac i have 2 hard drives installed how do i move photos or documents from one to the other

i just bought my first imac i have 2 seperate drives on it. how do i move photos and documents from one to the other.

This is our resident iPhoto guru, Terence Devlin's, advice:
You can move your iPhoto Library to an external or secondary internal disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.

HT4527 if i want to keep my iTunes on a external hard on step 4 I would just reset and use the map to the hard drive? also will this keep all info of the files? I do not want to loss all the play counts and tags

I'm upgrading to a new macbook pro mid 2012 with a Solid state drive from a macbook due 2 white that I have a 750 gb HD. My itunes is 95% of that Hard drive I just want to make sure I do not loss any of my itunes info in the move to the hard drive.

So, everything worked out just fine!
I have all my material in the ProRes Codec on a seperate drive now. The project itself was kept or rather duplicated, the bin structure etc stayed the same but is linking to the newly created files. The playback and workflow is fluent. I am happy!
Time info: For about 120 GB of material the codec change process took 25 hours.
Thanks for your help!
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Creating a new partition on OSX has replaced a drive. Is there anyway to recover this?

This might be a little confusing so I will try and explain myself as best as I can.
I run OSX and Windows 7. OSX is on 1 harddrive whilst my windows 7 install is on an SSD. I had a partition titled G:Win7 Files, this was not where Windows 7 was installed but a partition I used to store files for use on windows. I recently made a new partition from the drive with OSX installed on for use with Windows. I did this on OSX and when I rebooted into Windows, my G:Win7 Files drive has now been replaced with G:Windows (which was the partition I'd just created from a different drive.)
Because they are seperate drives, I was really hoping there would be a way to find this lost drive. It's showing that 18gb is being used of the new partition however that's how much data was on my missing drive and the new one appears empty.
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to be asking about this but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how to go about fixing this!
Thanks

Thanks. Ya that is a big bummer, I never knew to write down my recovery key... Maybe this should be more clearly explained in the preferences panel.

Fusion drive and logic?!

hi all, im going to have a new i mac i7 27 inch and bought it with a fusion drive. i saw some articles that claim fusion drive isnt good for logic work??
please let me know if its true and if I now have to start worry
thanks.. and hope it was good decision to buy the fusion drive.
Arad

As a single internal drive, no... a 7200rpm drive won't help...
You need a seperate drive for your OS X and another drive for your samples...
If you were thinking about patitioning the internal 3TB drive.. Partitioning such a large drive actually slows down the performance of the drive... and trying to run everything off an unpartitioned single drive is not a good idea either... though better than using partitions.
Personally, I'd get the smaller internal ITB HD for OS X and Applications etc.. and then use the $150 saved to get a fast 7200RPM FW800 (using a Thunderbolt to FW800 adaptor) /USB3 (Though be aware often FW800 drives often perform better than USB3 drives because of the overheads USB3 places on the system) or Thunderbolt external HD and use that for your samples/projects.

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