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When I first set up my daughter's iMac, I did a bootcamp partition on her hard drive (40Gb) that we have never used. Now her hard drive is critically short of space and I would like to get rid of the partition. I know I have to reformat the drive to do that. My worry is how to best go about doing that - I know I need to back up her drive to an external disk - but what is the best way to go about this. I would really like a step by step how to - do I use time machine? How can I be sure time machine did a FULL backup, of everything? And if it did ... is it going to restore the partition? We have legal copies of all her software, but one program she uses a lot (Final Cut Pro Studio - through a school licence) is no longer available to her (lost disks). Also, it won't work on Lion, apparently, she uses Snow Leopard. Her iMac is about 2 years old.
Can I get a "Dummies" guide set of step by step instructions? I am really nervous about this.
Can I get a "Dummies" guide set of step by step instructions? I am really nervous about this.