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Help please..what is partitioning and how do you do it?
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I am not a computer techie and don't really understand any of how anything works so here goes (put it down to my age).
I have an iMac and need an external hard drive to backup to. I had an Iomega for 5 weeks then it died.
So..am looking at getting either a Western Digital or a Seagate to backup Time Machine, photo's/home movies/documents.
In my head I am likening the HD to a huge filing cabinet and everything just gets sent there. Is partitioning anything to do with making compartments ie one for photo's one for TM etc? If so how do you do it? Also does that mean for example that once TM's compartment is full it will start to over-ride the first backups? Many thanks for any help.
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Last edited by westcountrygirl; 11-28-2008 at 11:38 AM.
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