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<blockquote data-quote="Mac Air" data-source="post: 1419959" data-attributes="member: 257375"><p>Chscag,</p><p></p><p>Thank you for the feedback. The reason I am trying to back up both systems to the same partition is I am looking into doing an online (carbonite or something of the sort) backup of my system and most services allow 1 PC and 1 external drive. My thought was if I partition my hard drive it will show as 2 separate drives and I wont be able to back both up online.</p><p></p><p>So per your advice of keeping my Mac and PC backups separate, how do feel about me sharing files between the two systems. For example say I was working on a word doc on my PC, save it, then transfer it to my Mac work on it, save, back and forth, etc. Will this data become corrupt? If not one possibility may be for me to use dropbox to keep my working data between the two in sync, have the Mac backup to a drive then clone it online.</p><p></p><p>Last question, I actually have 2 seagate 1 TB drives that I use as backups (one is a mirror image of the other). If I were to reformat one of the drives to the HFS, how can I get the data from my other drive (NTFS) to the newly formatted HFS drive? Right now my Mac will read / write to the HFS however I read that it will corrupt the data. What is the safest method to get the NTFS drive data to the HFS drive? </p><p></p><p>Thanks again</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mac Air, post: 1419959, member: 257375"] Chscag, Thank you for the feedback. The reason I am trying to back up both systems to the same partition is I am looking into doing an online (carbonite or something of the sort) backup of my system and most services allow 1 PC and 1 external drive. My thought was if I partition my hard drive it will show as 2 separate drives and I wont be able to back both up online. So per your advice of keeping my Mac and PC backups separate, how do feel about me sharing files between the two systems. For example say I was working on a word doc on my PC, save it, then transfer it to my Mac work on it, save, back and forth, etc. Will this data become corrupt? If not one possibility may be for me to use dropbox to keep my working data between the two in sync, have the Mac backup to a drive then clone it online. Last question, I actually have 2 seagate 1 TB drives that I use as backups (one is a mirror image of the other). If I were to reformat one of the drives to the HFS, how can I get the data from my other drive (NTFS) to the newly formatted HFS drive? Right now my Mac will read / write to the HFS however I read that it will corrupt the data. What is the safest method to get the NTFS drive data to the HFS drive? Thanks again [/QUOTE]
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