want to partition my drive. best way to do this?

[wreckthisplace]

hey guys.

i'm thinking of partitioning my drive and installing pro tools 6.9 LE on one and pro tools 7 LE on the other.
i was told that i'm going to have to back up my entire drive, partition it and then reinstall os x tiger on both partitions and then install pro tools on each of them. sounds like a pain in the butt.

can someone recommend the easiest way to go about this? any programs you might reccomend to make the backing up and then putting everything back on easy and smooth?

i would appreciate any advice on how i can make this hurt the least. anyone else doing this? i want to be able to compare PT 7 and 6.9. my PT 7 is causing a lot of issues that a dual 2.5 should be able to handle as far as i'm concerned.

any help asap would be great.

thanks

[tele_player]

I'd use Carbon Copy cloner and an external Firewire drive. The whole process should take less than an hour, including installing the other ProTools version.

[wreckthisplace]

i think i may have to reinstall reason and BFD and all of that.

or does carbon copy cloner make it so i don't have to do that?
also, if i backup my hard drive and then partition it later is it possible to put my old drive, OS, apps etc... onto just one of the partitions?

any more help on how to do this would be great.


thanks

[tele_player]

Reason definitely runs off a clone, I think ProTools LE does (but can't test it, as I don't have ProTools right now), and I don't know about BFD. Regardless, Carbon Copy Cloner is the fastest way to get this done, even if you need to reinstall some programs.

[gigi]

You can do the same job with disk utility (in utilities folder)

[tele_player]

Disk Utility can't (last time I checked) make a bootable clone of a drive. Disk Utility can partition and format your drive.

[wreckthisplace]

if i were to go ahead with this can anyone recommend a good setup?
meaning, how much space should i dedicate to each partition?

i'm thinking of putting PT 7 on a smaller partition and put PT 6.9 on the bigger one along with the contents of my older drive and using the bigger partition most of the time.

i have an 80 gig boot drive. i also have to consider the fact that i'm installing tiger onto both partitions. anyone know roughly how much i need to set aside for tiger?

also, i have an 80 gig boot drive and a 160 gig media drive built in to my G5. none of this would affect the contents on my media drive would it?

thanks

[wreckthisplace]

thoughts anyone?

thanks

[tele_player]

I'd just split it in half. It's temporary, anyway - you'll be settling on the newer version pretty soon, most likely. At that point, you can either re-partition, or just wipe the one you'll never boot from, and use it for storage.