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Toshiba External Hard Drive not recognized by Macbook Pro
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<blockquote data-quote="microsnook" data-source="post: 1349233" data-attributes="member: 218122"><p>The partitions are completely you're choice. It depends on what you are going to be using the external drive for.</p><p></p><p>For example:</p><p>I have an external drive with 3 partitions, 1.25TB for TimeMachine, 250 for Carbon Copy Cloner, which clones my SSD and if anything were to go wrong, I would have an extra boot drive...and the 3rd partition is for free space. (but I am able to do this because my external is huge!)</p><p></p><p>It really is a handy tool to have and to use if you ever think your HDD is going to fail. Better safe than sorry.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine will not be a bootable backup but it will back up all of your important data, including apps and pictures, music, etc. </p><p>That is what a lot of users use.</p><p></p><p>You could just create one partition, with all the space, and format it as Mac OS Journaled Extended.</p><p></p><p>Then its free and you're ready to go!</p><p></p><p>If you use Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner, I would highly suggest starting as soon as possible and back up frequently. If you stay on top of your back ups then you won't lose any important data in the future. </p><p></p><p>But if there is no need to create a partition, then just don't do it...</p><p></p><p>The only difference b/t TM and CCC is you will be able to boot with CCC.</p><p></p><p>Does that clear anything up?</p><p></p><p>As soon as you format your external it will basically be good as new! Should work great.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="microsnook, post: 1349233, member: 218122"] The partitions are completely you're choice. It depends on what you are going to be using the external drive for. For example: I have an external drive with 3 partitions, 1.25TB for TimeMachine, 250 for Carbon Copy Cloner, which clones my SSD and if anything were to go wrong, I would have an extra boot drive...and the 3rd partition is for free space. (but I am able to do this because my external is huge!) It really is a handy tool to have and to use if you ever think your HDD is going to fail. Better safe than sorry. Time Machine will not be a bootable backup but it will back up all of your important data, including apps and pictures, music, etc. That is what a lot of users use. You could just create one partition, with all the space, and format it as Mac OS Journaled Extended. Then its free and you're ready to go! If you use Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner, I would highly suggest starting as soon as possible and back up frequently. If you stay on top of your back ups then you won't lose any important data in the future. But if there is no need to create a partition, then just don't do it... The only difference b/t TM and CCC is you will be able to boot with CCC. Does that clear anything up? As soon as you format your external it will basically be good as new! Should work great. [/QUOTE]
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