Our standard setup for an external HD
First buy a LaCie Quadra drive, cos it’s the best value for a reliable drive with FireWire 800. Then plug it in, via FireWire if you have it, to your Mac. Then:
– Open Disk Utility
- Click on LaCie device (not the Setup Assistant partition)
- Go to Partition tab
- Change drop-down to 2 partitions
- Call partion 1 “Macintosh HD Clone” and make it the same size as her internal drive (120GB? 250?)
- Call partition 2 “Time Machine Backup” (size is whatever’s left)
- Hit Options button > use GUID Partition Table (so the hard drive is bootable on an intel machine)
- Click Apply. – Time Machine will ask if you wanna use the disk. Choose the “Time Machine Backup” volume. – We use SuperDuper (USD$27.95 from http://shirt-pocket.com) to clone the internal Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD Clone on a weekly basis for a super-important bootable backup.
- Click on LaCie device (not the Setup Assistant partition)
- Go to Partition tab
- Change drop-down to 2 partitions
- Call partion 1 “Macintosh HD Clone” and make it the same size as her internal drive (120GB? 250?)
- Call partition 2 “Time Machine Backup” (size is whatever’s left)
- Hit Options button > use GUID Partition Table (so the hard drive is bootable on an intel machine)
- Click Apply. – Time Machine will ask if you wanna use the disk. Choose the “Time Machine Backup” volume. – We use SuperDuper (USD$27.95 from http://shirt-pocket.com) to clone the internal Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD Clone on a weekly basis for a super-important bootable backup.
February 9, 2010 | Filed Under Tech
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