pursuant partition thread

[Chad Leigh]

On Mar 4, 2007, at 5:16 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> 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.


I put a 160GB drive in a machine that could only handle 128GB  
drives.  It was a new drive and I figured if I just formatted it at  
120-128GB it would be OK.  Turned out to not be OK.  Files got  
corrupted and it became a mess...

Chad