Re: Partitioning a disk with data on it

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From: Ben Lovejoy
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:00

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slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK (Simon Slavin) wrote:

>Since you have another Mac, could you copy the System folder from
>your PB to the old Mac, repartition the PB, install a minimal
>networking system, and copy the original System folder back on ?

The system folder on the 3400 is bigger than the entire hard drive on the
150! (170Mb, 120Mb.)

>My 1400c came with a CD-ROM that contained /everything/ that had
>been pre-loaded onto the hard disk.  I partitioned it immediately I
>got it out of the box 

Yup, that's what I should have done. Ho hum.

Ben

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