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To: JohnM who wrote (53128)	5/20/2006 1:36:42 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Firewire drive. Too bad that not many people partition. It's saved me numerous times. Last night my printer wasn't responding. I really needed it. After checking for obvious problems I booted to my partition. Printer worked fine. So the partition immediately let me determine whether it was a hardware or software problem. Once I had that figured out I booted back and found the problem.

To: JohnM who wrote (53128)	5/20/2006 9:02:14 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

>>The one book I have, David Pogue's book, suggests that partitioning one's hard drive requires backing up everything, then erasing the hard disk and starting over. Any other ideas?<< John - I believe that Boot Camp includes a software utility that allows you to partition your hard drive without destroying the existing partition. There is also a nice utility called Drive Genius, from Prosoft Engineering. It enables "on-the-fly" partitioning of your Mac hard drive and does many other useful things, for a reasonable price. prosofteng.com FYI, Prosoft also makes a product called Data Rescue which I have used to recover files from a damaged volume. Very handy. Both Drive Genius and Data Rescue can take a very long time to run, btw. And of course, it's always a good idea to have a backup in case something goes wrong. - Allen