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Hi Everyone!
I'm new to posting on this forum, so I hope I'm in the correct section.
What I want to accomplish is to buy a Firewire external hard drive and partition it into 3 partitions. Two will be bootable and one will be for storing some documents and stuff and junk. (Lighten the load on the hard drives- Move pictures and unneeded documents)
Partition One will be made into a clone of our Home Macbook Pro. Partition Two will be made into a clone of our Business Macbook. The idea behind all of this is that each of our Macs has to go in for repairs. While, for instance, the Home Macbook is in the shop, I'd like to be able to use the Business Macbook and boot into the Home Macbook's image.
When it's repaired, I'll restore the Macbook's drive from the back up on the external drive. Then, I'll switch and send the Business Macbook for repair, using the external drive to boot into the Business Macbook's clone from the Home Macbook. (Huh? Now even I'm confused.)
For long term, I'd like to keep each of these clones current: Mirroring their respective hard drives with incremental back ups. Then, next time something goes haywire, we're good to go. I see lots of programs are available to make back-ups, but I don't know about the booting part being acceptable by the Macbook.
Basically, I'm asking if I can partition One external into two bootable partitions (plus a non bootable one) and choose which partition I want on startup (by using the OPTION key method). Will the Macbook see both partitions as bootable?
I'm running OS X .4.11.
Thank you all for your advice! I appreciate it.
Paul
I'm new to posting on this forum, so I hope I'm in the correct section.
What I want to accomplish is to buy a Firewire external hard drive and partition it into 3 partitions. Two will be bootable and one will be for storing some documents and stuff and junk. (Lighten the load on the hard drives- Move pictures and unneeded documents)
Partition One will be made into a clone of our Home Macbook Pro. Partition Two will be made into a clone of our Business Macbook. The idea behind all of this is that each of our Macs has to go in for repairs. While, for instance, the Home Macbook is in the shop, I'd like to be able to use the Business Macbook and boot into the Home Macbook's image.
When it's repaired, I'll restore the Macbook's drive from the back up on the external drive. Then, I'll switch and send the Business Macbook for repair, using the external drive to boot into the Business Macbook's clone from the Home Macbook. (Huh? Now even I'm confused.)
For long term, I'd like to keep each of these clones current: Mirroring their respective hard drives with incremental back ups. Then, next time something goes haywire, we're good to go. I see lots of programs are available to make back-ups, but I don't know about the booting part being acceptable by the Macbook.
Basically, I'm asking if I can partition One external into two bootable partitions (plus a non bootable one) and choose which partition I want on startup (by using the OPTION key method). Will the Macbook see both partitions as bootable?
I'm running OS X .4.11.
Thank you all for your advice! I appreciate it.
Paul