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- iMac 21.5 1TB HDD - iPod Touch 4G
So I have a 1tb drive in the iMac. I am also using bootcamp. The drive is split 70/30 in favour of the mac, & I have very little extra programs or files in either partition yet.
So, if I purchase a USB powered 1Tb drive, and leave it permanently plugged into a usb port, I assume it will back up my mac part. But will it also back up the windows part?
I dont mean 'intimately' back it up, in great detail, and it I know it also wouldn't back it up if I were actually using windows... But if I am mainly on the mac side, would it back up the bootcamp partition at the same time (Almost as 'Extra Information) or not?
In other words, if I had a crash, and used time machine to go back to before the crash, would the files on the bootcamp partition also go back to that point in time, or would they be lost?
Finally, considering I dont intend to KEEP lots of files on the iMac, unless I am actually working on them, and all finished work would be saved to separate disc anyway, is getting a 1tb drive, and leaving it connected all the time overkill? Or is a 500GB enough?
Thanks.
So, if I purchase a USB powered 1Tb drive, and leave it permanently plugged into a usb port, I assume it will back up my mac part. But will it also back up the windows part?
I dont mean 'intimately' back it up, in great detail, and it I know it also wouldn't back it up if I were actually using windows... But if I am mainly on the mac side, would it back up the bootcamp partition at the same time (Almost as 'Extra Information) or not?
In other words, if I had a crash, and used time machine to go back to before the crash, would the files on the bootcamp partition also go back to that point in time, or would they be lost?
Finally, considering I dont intend to KEEP lots of files on the iMac, unless I am actually working on them, and all finished work would be saved to separate disc anyway, is getting a 1tb drive, and leaving it connected all the time overkill? Or is a 500GB enough?
Thanks.