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<blockquote data-quote="GulfVetSAF" data-source="post: 386527" data-attributes="member: 30067"><p>I have a WD 500 GB external hard drive and as most of you know I'm new to mac... so, when I downloaded SuperDuper and went to backup my mac for the first time (with superduper anyway), It's not formated correctly.</p><p></p><p>This is my question... and I'm fairly sure I know the answer already...</p><p></p><p>I already have about we'll say 90 gb of documents, music and photos etc on the external drive. Is there any way I can partition the drive so that I don't have to put everything on a dvd first. What I mean is, I'm assuming if I partition the drives now, with all that stuff on there; when I do so it's going to erase all that data?</p><p></p><p>I think there's a way to do it but I'm not that familiar with partitioning. I had a partitioned internal drive years ago with windows on one and linux on another (I was playing around and simply didn't make the effort to really learn the os- so it really was just a waste of time).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, thanks for the input in advance.</p><p></p><p>Scott</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GulfVetSAF, post: 386527, member: 30067"] I have a WD 500 GB external hard drive and as most of you know I'm new to mac... so, when I downloaded SuperDuper and went to backup my mac for the first time (with superduper anyway), It's not formated correctly. This is my question... and I'm fairly sure I know the answer already... I already have about we'll say 90 gb of documents, music and photos etc on the external drive. Is there any way I can partition the drive so that I don't have to put everything on a dvd first. What I mean is, I'm assuming if I partition the drives now, with all that stuff on there; when I do so it's going to erase all that data? I think there's a way to do it but I'm not that familiar with partitioning. I had a partitioned internal drive years ago with windows on one and linux on another (I was playing around and simply didn't make the effort to really learn the os- so it really was just a waste of time). Anyway, thanks for the input in advance. Scott [/QUOTE]
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