[cgc]

This is probably a stupid question, but I have a MacPro and want to upgrade the hard drive. I plan on buying two 640GB WD Caviar Blues, one for inside my Mac and another inside my extrernal HDD enclosure for backup. I have a BootCamp partition with Vista Business installed so I'll partition both drives identically. My Mac partition will be backed up via Carbon Copy Clone or Synk Pro (not sure yet), and I'll use WinClone to backup Vista since I want the external drive to be HFS+.

My two questions are:

1. Will the external Mac Partition be bootable if there's an HFS+ partition?
2. Can I format the second partition in the external drive as NTFS and if so, will the external Mac Partition be bootable?

Thanks.

[Simon]

Yes and yes (I'm assuming by 'Mac partition' you're referring to HFS+)

To clone don't use CCC or any expensive commercial solutions. Instead use the free, built-in and stable OS X tool.

/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility > Restore

Select erase destination for a bootable clone in block-copy mode (fast!).