cynop Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 hello everybody, first post, hope i'm not asking anything terribly stupid. I'm thinking of installing Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2] on my USB HD. I was thinking of following this guide http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph..._USB_Hard_Drive Seems simple enough. My only question is this: I have a lot of data in that HD that right now i cannot backup. So i set up a 20 GB partition to install MacOS in. The rest of the partitions on the HD are safe right? i mean, "*Warning* all data in the usb drive will be erased" is for the data on the partition were OSX is being installed, right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57125-question-about-partitioned-usb-hd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
digby Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 OSX wouldn't boot up for me when I partitioned an USB drive into 2 partitions. After I re-installed with only 1 partition, OSX booted up fine on USB. It might be a matter of which version of hacked OSX you're using or maybe it's universal. Just use disk utility before installation to partition your USB drive and leave your old partition alone and you're fine so far as installation is concerned. Booting up is another matter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57125-question-about-partitioned-usb-hd/#findComment-408191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynop Posted July 15, 2007 Author Share Posted July 15, 2007 thanks for replying digby. I experimented a little myself. I created a fat32 partition for the OSX install and then i tried to turn it to Mac Journalled from the disk utilities, but i got a message that all 3 volumes will be erased so i backed off. I'll try it again after i empty the HD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57125-question-about-partitioned-usb-hd/#findComment-408430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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