[aleingang69]

Hi,
I've got a pre-mirrored-door G4 so I have that annoying HD size problem: my machine will only recognize 128GBs of any drive. I've been told that a larger drive in an external enclosure won't have this problem, so I have a Firewire box on order.
I have a 160GB drive that I've formatted as a 128GB in the G4 and I want to take it out and put it in the enclosure, but I"m wondering if I'm endangering the data on the drive - it has about 120GBs of files on it.
What'll happen if I do this?
Will I have access to those elusive extra GBs?
Will I damage my files?
Have you done this? What happened?
THanks
AL

[tooki]

You'd have to reformat to get to use the extra few GBs. Otherwise, it should work fine, and shouldn't cause any data loss in the external case.

tooki

[brickcam]

Anytime you mess with your setup, though, and swap HDs around, you ought to have backed up the data regardless. **** happens.

[olePigeon]

iPartition can partition your drive without reformatting. You might be able to get the extra space using that, but it's $45. Might be worth it to just back up your files and reformat it.

[bbales]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
iPartition can partition your drive without reformatting. You might be able to get the extra space using that, but it's $45. Might be worth it to just back up your files and reformat it.

I have an external drive with partitions (use them for separate backup strategies) that I would dearly love to change. Version tracker gives this software high marks -- but has anyone actually used it?