03-30-2012, 02:48 PM

Hello,

I would like to ask about partitioning my Hard drive on MAC book pro,

My style on my PC was like :

C volume for Windows Applications and system.

D volume divided into folders ( MP3 , Movies , Games & work ) ...

So , once windows goes down or crashed or I need to re-install a fresh copy of windos it is easy for me to format and re-install on the C volume without touching D volume

So , What about the same mechanism for the MAC hard drive ?

Thanks

03-30-2012, 03:09 PM

First, how about telling us which MBP you have? Year and model? If it's a fairly new MBP, it's running Lion. An installation of Lion has two partitions: One for the system, and another for recovery. You can for example boot to the recovery partition and reinstall Lion from there even if the system partition is messed up.

Mac OS X is not like Windows. It's not necessary to create partitions. Keep everything on one partition for simplicity and ease of backing up with Time Machine.

03-30-2012, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by chscag

First, how about telling us which MBP you have? Year and model? If it's a fairly new MBP, it's running Lion. An installation of Lion has two partitions: One for the system, and another for recovery. You can for example boot to the recovery partition and reinstall Lion from there even if the system partition is messed up.

Mac OS X is not like Windows. It's not necessary to create partitions. Keep everything on one partition for simplicity and ease of backing up with Time Machine.

Hello,

Thanks chscag ,

My MBP is late 2011 and has OS X lion 10.7.3 .. just bought it.

So , let me ask you about the backup function by time machine ..

If i do partitioning , the backup size will be smaller than packing up the whole data including my files movies , sheets , .. etc ??

03-30-2012, 07:28 PM

You can specify in Time Machine preferences what not to back up.

I used to have that C D partition thing in Windows too, but as has been said, it is not necessary in Mac OS.