homers Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Hi I have Leopard on my second hard drive. I also have a 500GB external MyBook hard drive which I use for backing up Windows Vista and applications, documents and video projects. My Mac drive is 152GB and I am using 11GB. Could I partition my My Book External hard drive to use for Time Machine? Could I set it to around 30GB and if I need more for Time Machine extend it? How safe is this overall as my external hard drive has EVERYTHING to do with my computer which has been built up for years? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98555-backing-up-mac-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 There is actually no need to repartition the drive if it's OSX compatible (read/write access). Time Machine simply creates a directory where it stores it's files so it doesn't collide with anything already on the drive. I wouldn't recommend repartitioning on the fly (that means, with the files on the drive while partitioning) considering the importance of the files. Best thing to do, is to copy everything over to another drive, repartition (with a big enough HFS+ partition for Time Machine) and copy everything back over. Good luck, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98555-backing-up-mac-os-x/#findComment-704220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
homers Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 Hi the drive is NTFS and I have Paragon NTFS installed so that it can read/write but Time Machine says 'Reformat Required'. I was thinking that I could maybe partition my drive that OS X is installed on and just split it. If I have maybe 100GB for OS X and 52GB for Time Machine would that work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98555-backing-up-mac-os-x/#findComment-704249 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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