pursuant partition thread

[LuKreme]

On 3-Mar-2007, at 19:05, Ashley Aitken wrote:
> The reason being that if you boot the same Mac from a DVD or  
> external drive that does not have the driver installed the OS will  
> only see 128GB of any larger partition.
>
> Inevitably this would royally screw up the partition.  So I think  
> that's eminently professional advice and advice that I was willing  
> to follow to reduce the risk of data loss.

Well, maybe.  I did once accidentally put a 160GB drive onto a  
machine that only was capable of reading the first 128GB.  I copied  
files to and from it (Large 30GB+ files, iMovie packages and such)  
and then moved it back to the machine that could read the full drive.

No problem.

YMMV and I wouldn't recommend it, but keep in mind, the machines we  
are talking about in this thread are not 'older' machines.

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