Adding and mounting 2nd internal HD

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Adding and mounting 2nd internal HD

I am in process of adding a Maxline III 250 SATA HD in the second bay. I have never done this before and am 1 month new to Mac. Can 2 internal hard drives be mounted at the same time....and do you have to reboot to switch from one to the other.

DC PM G5 2.0, 1GB ram, NEC 2180UX display, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Feb 17, 2006 9:21 PM

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Feb 17, 2006 9:49 PM in response to Karen S

I've got 3 internal drives and all mount just fine. As for rebooting, I'm not sure what you mean by "switch from one to the other." If you have different operating system versions on different drives, as I do, then yes you would have to reboot to change from running Tiger on one drive to running Panther or OS 9 off another.

Francine
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Feb 17, 2006 10:00 PM in response to Francine Schwieder

I am planning on using this new drive as my startup or boot drive and the original HD as my backup. Is it normal to have both drives mounted all the time and it seems to me that both would have to be mounted to backup one to the other - Correct?

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Feb 17, 2006 10:34 PM in response to Karen S

Yes, you would need both drives mounted in order to back up. All three of mine are mounted all the time, as there are different things on different drives that I want access to. For instance, I keep my iTunes library on a partition of my newest drive, which is bigger than the two original 60GBs drives. I boot off one of the 60s, and I keep a lot of aif files on the other, and so on.

If you want to unmount your other drive you can do so in Disk Utility, but I never bother.

Francine
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Karen S Author

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Feb 18, 2006 9:35 AM in response to Francine Schwieder

Thank you Francine - I appreciate you help. I wonder where the helpful button is...? Sometimes it''s here and now it's not..

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