Can I image and clone to a HFS+ formatted external HD?
Hey, this may or may not be a foolish question, but I just purchased a 2TB Seagate Expansion external drive to store images and a clone on, but I also want to put other misc stuff on the drive. I just formatted the drive to HFS+ on my Macbook, and am going to install MacDrive on my PC so that I can use the drive on both my PC and Mac. The reason I didn't format it to NTFS is because I would like to store downloaded files on this drive in addition to the images, and I have internet disabled on my PC as I'm using it primarily as a music system.
I am only going to be taking images and (possibly) a clone of my PC (running Windows 7). I will not be running Acronis with my Macbook.
hmmm okay I guess I'll have to treat this drive as an extra backup for images then. Is it as simple as dragging the image file over to another drive or is there a specific order of operations that needs to be taken?
I have another 1TB external that is NTFS that I'm probably going to reformat and use for images mainly. But if I clone my OS drive to this external drive, 1) is it going to take up the entire space of my OS drive which is 500gb, or just the contents? 2) Is this drive now dedicated to the clone + images or can other things still be put on this drive?
Copying all .tib files belonging to some backup task to another location will give you copy that you will be able to restore from.
IIRC (TI 2011), you can clone disk, but not individual partitions. You may resize the partitions manually, but the entire content of the target disk will be overwritten anyway. So you can't use it in 'clone+images' mode. If you use it as backup destinations ( 'images') it's OK to place other files on it.