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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 780779" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Sorry, to put a damper on your thoughts here. My personal opinion is that the use of two partitions on your boot drive is of no use at all. If a mechanical failure occurs to the drive, the entire drive fails. You could lose all your data ... on both partitions. A back up made to the same disk is not a back up at all. A proper backup can only be made to a separate disk.</p><p></p><p>My suggestion would be to restore the drive to a single partition. You can do this in Disk Utility simply by enlarging the existing partition to the full size of the drive without the need of re-installing.</p><p></p><p>Then, until such time as you can afford a back up drive, use your iBook for keeping duplicate copies of your sensitive files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 780779, member: 24160"] Sorry, to put a damper on your thoughts here. My personal opinion is that the use of two partitions on your boot drive is of no use at all. If a mechanical failure occurs to the drive, the entire drive fails. You could lose all your data ... on both partitions. A back up made to the same disk is not a back up at all. A proper backup can only be made to a separate disk. My suggestion would be to restore the drive to a single partition. You can do this in Disk Utility simply by enlarging the existing partition to the full size of the drive without the need of re-installing. Then, until such time as you can afford a back up drive, use your iBook for keeping duplicate copies of your sensitive files. [/QUOTE]
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