Hi
I am running an emac 1.25 Gh with 768 sdram and 150Gb HD.
I have an external firewire drive with another 150Gb. In the past I have backed up my hard disk to the external drive (partitioning 100Gb on Mac extended) and the other 50Gb set for fat32 so that I could back up my wifes PC laptop.
I realised that it may be better to have a bootable mac partition in case of failure. So, I tested it by wiping the external drive and using Disc Utility set the external drive to Apple Partition Map (which, I understand is the only way to make the external drive bootable)...backed up using Carbon Copy Cloner. I now find that I can (by holding down the alt key) boot up from the external drive....GREAT....but....I then resized the partition down to 100Gb in order to add the fat32/dos storeage. The new partition will only allow me "mac" choices....I guess this is because the primary partition was done in APM.
I dont mind wiping the whole lot again, if there is another alternative...but how can I now make the external drive with 2 partitions.....1 for a bootable mac and the second for a bootable PC??
Should have mentioned that I am using 10.5.3
Any ideas would be welcome.
Thanks
Geoff Coulson
I am running an emac 1.25 Gh with 768 sdram and 150Gb HD.
I have an external firewire drive with another 150Gb. In the past I have backed up my hard disk to the external drive (partitioning 100Gb on Mac extended) and the other 50Gb set for fat32 so that I could back up my wifes PC laptop.
I realised that it may be better to have a bootable mac partition in case of failure. So, I tested it by wiping the external drive and using Disc Utility set the external drive to Apple Partition Map (which, I understand is the only way to make the external drive bootable)...backed up using Carbon Copy Cloner. I now find that I can (by holding down the alt key) boot up from the external drive....GREAT....but....I then resized the partition down to 100Gb in order to add the fat32/dos storeage. The new partition will only allow me "mac" choices....I guess this is because the primary partition was done in APM.
I dont mind wiping the whole lot again, if there is another alternative...but how can I now make the external drive with 2 partitions.....1 for a bootable mac and the second for a bootable PC??
Should have mentioned that I am using 10.5.3
Any ideas would be welcome.
Thanks
Geoff Coulson