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SuperDuper and FCP on backup drive

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Please excuse my ignorance but I'm sort of a newbie. I bought a 320GB external hard drive. If I use SuperDuper and back up my computer, that would take 100 GB +/-. Can I still use that hard drive for other projects, such as saving video I use for editing purposes like Final Cut Pro?

Or does the drive just become a back-up with SuperDuper on it?
 
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You need to partition your drive first, which you do via Disk Utility. This is in the Utilities Folder within your Applications Folder. You then see the different partitiions as individual drives within the Finder.
 
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You go into disk utility, click on the disk you are going to partition (in the bar on the left), and then hit the partition tab, select how many partitions you want (2 right?). Make them both Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and then make them the sizes you want. One would be the size of the disk you are backing up, and the other would be the remaining. Name both partitions and then hit partition.
Pretty simple.
 

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