Totally new and I know nothing and need help

[Chrlz]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Well, if ou only have one iMac without partitions, you shouldn't partition the destination. Then, simply follow the steps in the first few sections of the User's Guide -- lots of screen shots and hand holding...

That's interesting, because I think I'd like to do just that; partition the iMac HD and use one partition as scratch disk for Photoshop, but then how do you run system software when it resides on the other partition, if you know how I'm thinking. In other words How do you start over from the beginning. It seems that I need to move everything to one of the partitions on the LaCie and erase the iMac HD then partition the Mac HD and recopy..not making sense here. I just don't know! Maybe I'll just forget all this partitioning stuff and do an 'Uncle Joe' (quote from Take Control) backup ie. schedule a simple backup one a week and fergit it!!

Chrlz