[Volanges]

I just bought a 180Gb ext. harddrive which I plan to use for two things: audio recording projects and video/DVD projects.

I should partition the drive before I start, right? What amounts should I make each partition? Right now with nothing on it, it's telling me I have 167Gb.

Should I do something like 100 for video and the remainder for audio?

Also, I have an older external harddrive that is 60Gb and I use mainly for general storage and back-ups. I have never partitioned it. Should I move everything off of it while I have the chance and partition it somehow as well. I've read it's not a bad idea to have a copy of your start-up disk on an ext. drive -- is that right?

Thanks

[MaxPower2k3]

why partition it? you could just have a folder in the root of the drive for Video and another for Audio and separate them that way. Then, if you end up using more than 100GB for video (or 67GB for audio) you aren't restricting yourself with partitions. As for the existing drive, it seems like quite a chore to move everything off of it, partition it, and move everything back onto it, and then make a copy of your boot drive onto it. perhaps it works better, but what i did was put a 5GB partition on my 120GB drive where, in the future, i can install OS X if i need and access the PowerBook's internal drive like that.