partitioning HD

BMWe24 · BMWe24 #1 (**permalink**)

03-04-2011, 02:45 AM

so i got snow leopard finally, which should make my windows 7 on bootcamp use all my hardware. I wanna back up my hard drive tho and dont have a spare hard drive yet. I know i should get one but my computer is basically backed up on my parents iMac and all my important stuff is on the webs. Can i partition my hard drive and then back it up on the partitioned one via time machine? I know how to partition it, but can i unpartition it once i upgrade to snow leopard so i dont have three different drives on my mac? thats my biggest concern

thanks guys
Brad

baggss · baggss #2 (**permalink**)

03-04-2011, 12:49 PM

With disc utility, no. If you get an App like Partition Magic, yes.

BMWe24 · BMWe24 #3 (**permalink**)

03-05-2011, 09:24 PM

if that didn't cost 60 dollars, is there a free away

chscag · chscag #4 (**permalink**)

03-06-2011, 01:22 AM

Well, PM is not going to work on an EFI system anyway but iPartition will. However, it's going to cost $44.95.

baggss · baggss #5 (**permalink**)

03-06-2011, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chscag

Well, PM is not going to work on an EFI system anyway but iPartition will. However, it's going to cost $44.95.

Good call. Forgot about that.

chscag #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,376 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	03-06-2011, 01:22 AM Well, PM is not going to work on an EFI system anyway but iPartition will. However, it's going to cost $44.95. Community Guidelines
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BMWe24 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 13, 2009 Posts: 21 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro, 13.3 in screen with 2GB RAM and a 2.26 GHz	03-04-2011, 02:45 AM so i got snow leopard finally, which should make my windows 7 on bootcamp use all my hardware. I wanna back up my hard drive tho and dont have a spare hard drive yet. I know i should get one but my computer is basically backed up on my parents iMac and all my important stuff is on the webs. Can i partition my hard drive and then back it up on the partitioned one via time machine? I know how to partition it, but can i unpartition it once i upgrade to snow leopard so i dont have three different drives on my mac? thats my biggest concern thanks guys Brad
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Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	03-04-2011, 12:49 PM With disc utility, no. If you get an App like Partition Magic, yes.
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