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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Southern New Jersey
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Is there a way to partition your hard drive with wiping all of the data? I have an iMac with OSX and OS 9.1 on the same partition and don't want to reinstall everything from scratch.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: NY
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backup your data, partition the drive, then copy everythying back into your partition from your backup
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Vancouver BC Canada eh!
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No, theres not!
****Programmer Alert*****
If this is possible, I know I'd pay for it!
If you know anybody that has a FW drive, (or if you could rent one?). You could go with the previous comment from Jsnuff. I've never used an imac but if you can install a second drive, it'll be a great investment.
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Chuck
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Fort Myers, FL, USA
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I could be completely wrong on this, but doesn't LaCie's Silverlining allow you to expand/condense partitions non-destructively?
Chris
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Long Island,NY
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FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit allow's dynamic partitioning. However, only after you have first formatted the drive using Hard Disk Toolkit.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: melbourne, australia
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on the other hand, a complete clean strip (zero all data) is a damn good idea at least once a year: it blows out so many cobwebs and refreshes your whole outlook (providing you back-up your personal info, of course).
then a clean re-install of all your apps runs so much smoother.
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