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Old 03-13-2005, 04:35 PM
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Default Re: Best way to configure mac hard drive

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An additional suggestion for future troubleshooting: format your internal drive with at least two partitions. One will be for your main OS installation. The other is for a backup installation or a backup clone of the main partition (Carbon Copy Cloner works nicely for this). I have had issues in which my main OS became corrupted and I was unable to boot from it. Having the backup partition has saved me on more than one occasion.

Then my standard operating procedure is to have my sessions, audio files, and other sound data residing on an external FireWire drive.
Bad solution.
It's a false sense of backup.
If the physical drive fails you have lost the drive and the backup at the same time.
Drives are pretty cheap now so having a seperate backup drive is a safer route.
It would then mean that 2 drives have to fail instead of one.
Your drive may never fail or have any problems, but if it does and you don't have a functional backup you will be able to think of all the ways you could have protected yourself.
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