I have an external firewire disk with a bunch of files on it (put there by
an OS 9 Mac); it has only one partition. I want to use Carbon Copy Cloner
from my laptop with OS X Panther to make the disk bootable as a copy of my
Panther system, but without losing the files which are already on there (I
don't want to re-format the whole thing). Can I add a new partition to an
existing disk without trashing the contents in any way? If so, I'll do that
and use Carbon Copy Cloner to put a clone of my Panther disk on there. If
not, can CCC do anything with an existing file system to make it bootable
into OSX (do I need a whole new clean partition for it) or can I simply ask
it to clone to an existing partition and leave the existing files alone? If
anyone has any wisdom on this score, please cc: replies to
mlevin77@comcast.net. Thanks!!

--

Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net

You cannot repartition a drive without wiping its contents. You can,
however, load an operating system to it without erasing its contents.



in article BBFFD6DE.4DD6%mlevin77@comcast.net, Michael Levin at
mlevin77@comcast.net wrote on 12/12/03 5:34 PM:

> I have an external firewire disk with a bunch of files on it (put there by
> an OS 9 Mac); it has only one partition. I want to use Carbon Copy Cloner
> from my laptop with OS X Panther to make the disk bootable as a copy of my
> Panther system, but without losing the files which are already on there (I
> don't want to re-format the whole thing). Can I add a new partition to an
> existing disk without trashing the contents in any way? If so, I'll do that
> and use Carbon Copy Cloner to put a clone of my Panther disk on there. If
> not, can CCC do anything with an existing file system to make it bootable
> into OSX (do I need a whole new clean partition for it) or can I simply ask
> it to clone to an existing partition and leave the existing files alone? If
> anyone has any wisdom on this score, please cc: replies to
> mlevin77@comcast.net. Thanks!!
>
> --
>
> Mike Levin
> mlevin77@comcast.net
>

Interesting. So if I use CCC to add stuff from a working OS X volume to a
drive with a bunch of other stuff on it, can I then boot off it in OS X? Do
I need to erase the OS 9 system off it first, or do they not interfere with
each other?

Mike

On 12/15/03 11:17 AM, in article BC031E96.122F%nat@flikworld.com, "Nathaniel
Flick" <nat@flikworld.com> wrote:

> You cannot repartition a drive without wiping its contents. You can,
> however, load an operating system to it without erasing its contents.
>
>
>
> in article BBFFD6DE.4DD6%mlevin77@comcast.net, Michael Levin at
> mlevin77@comcast.net wrote on 12/12/03 5:34 PM:
>
>> I have an external firewire disk with a bunch of files on it (put there by
>> an OS 9 Mac); it has only one partition. I want to use Carbon Copy Cloner
>> from my laptop with OS X Panther to make the disk bootable as a copy of my
>> Panther system, but without losing the files which are already on there (I
>> don't want to re-format the whole thing). Can I add a new partition to an
>> existing disk without trashing the contents in any way? If so, I'll do that
>> and use Carbon Copy Cloner to put a clone of my Panther disk on there. If
>> not, can CCC do anything with an existing file system to make it bootable
>> into OSX (do I need a whole new clean partition for it) or can I simply ask
>> it to clone to an existing partition and leave the existing files alone? If
>> anyone has any wisdom on this score, please cc: replies to
>> mlevin77@comcast.net. Thanks!!
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Levin
>> mlevin77@comcast.net
>>
>

--

Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net

As long as you are running OS X 1.0 or greater and OS 9.2 (not anything less
than that) you can then run the OS 9.2 as "Classic" in OS X. No problem. I
am doing that right now.

You might check your documentation to verify, but when you load the Mac OS X
operating system by itself from the cd, you can choose to either wipe the
drive and install or to just install.

The two systems do not interfere with each other.


Kind Regards,
Nathaniel
--
flikWORLD Design
reply to: nat at flikworld(dot)com


in article BC0360C1.5D14%mlevin77@comcast.net, Michael Levin at
mlevin77@comcast.net wrote on 12/15/03 9:59 AM:

> Interesting. So if I use CCC to add stuff from a working OS X volume to a
> drive with a bunch of other stuff on it, can I then boot off it in OS X? Do
> I need to erase the OS 9 system off it first, or do they not interfere with
> each other?
>
> Mike
>
> On 12/15/03 11:17 AM, in article BC031E96.122F%nat@flikworld.com, "Nathaniel
> Flick" <nat@flikworld.com> wrote:
>
>> You cannot repartition a drive without wiping its contents. You can,
>> however, load an operating system to it without erasing its contents.
>>
>>
>>
>> in article BBFFD6DE.4DD6%mlevin77@comcast.net, Michael Levin at
>> mlevin77@comcast.net wrote on 12/12/03 5:34 PM:
>>
>>> I have an external firewire disk with a bunch of files on it (put there by
>>> an OS 9 Mac); it has only one partition. I want to use Carbon Copy Cloner
>>> from my laptop with OS X Panther to make the disk bootable as a copy of my
>>> Panther system, but without losing the files which are already on there (I
>>> don't want to re-format the whole thing). Can I add a new partition to an
>>> existing disk without trashing the contents in any way? If so, I'll do that
>>> and use Carbon Copy Cloner to put a clone of my Panther disk on there. If
>>> not, can CCC do anything with an existing file system to make it bootable
>>> into OSX (do I need a whole new clean partition for it) or can I simply ask
>>> it to clone to an existing partition and leave the existing files alone? If
>>> anyone has any wisdom on this score, please cc: replies to
>>> mlevin77@comcast.net. Thanks!!
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Mike Levin
>>> mlevin77@comcast.net
>>>
>>
>
> --
>
> Mike Levin
> mlevin77@comcast.net
>

Michael Levin <mlevin77@comcast.net> wrote:

> Interesting. So if I use CCC to add stuff from a working OS X volume to a
> drive with a bunch of other stuff on it, can I then boot off it in OS X?

Yes. That's the very purpose for CCC's existence.

> Do I need to erase the OS 9 system off it first, or do they not interfere
> with each other?

No, they don't interfere. In fact, Apple ships Macs with a single
partition containing both OS X and OS 9.

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