us$ 3.99... last i rented was hurt locker. highly recommended watching in HD haha

about 5gb+. i think 2/3 days...i dun online all the time...

lol, yea bootcamp 3.0 cn read HFS ;p thx 4 sharing abt macdrive

wow sorry i cant help u there... somehow i dont think deleting the NTFS drive will solve ur problem. maybe partition magic didnt recognize the HFS volume n simply labelled in "unallocated"

can u view the size of the contents in the "unallocated" partition? how does it show up in OSX?

partitioning an HFS drive on windows isnt a good idea

that's my opinion lah. after install ntfs-3g, OSX 'fully understand' what is NTFS, so it can handle it no prob. w/o ntfs-3g, in disk utility there's no option to format a drive to NTFS.

as for partition magic or any other partition manager in windows, it doesnt understand what HFS is. im not sure if macdrive changes this. does macdrive include a partitioner of some sort?

i'll experiment later on after my midterms

if it's just a backup, as in all original copies of the files are still in ur laptop, then juz create new backup lah

creating a partition is not complex...it's just that u have to properly plan what u want to do 1st. get the partitions set up, then can start pasting files

u can try ur luck using Drive Genius. it's not free, so pandai2lah

that's not called backing up anymore... that's just moving ur files to external hdd no experience with disk warrior sorry~

that price shud be correct. got two versions though, the newer one with the 'screen' is slightly more expensive

i have no missing data problem la...u quoted wrong guy hehe

anyway i didnt know got program can change the partition table n retain the data. anyone know any mac software can do this?

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: May 10 2010, 06:40 PM

superduper does cloning, time machine does backup. two different things. (actually superduper can do backups but time machine is a better solution)

what superduper does is make an exact copy of ur hard drive. meaning, if u clone to an external, u can boot ur mac from the external drive using USB, n it will be the exact same thing as what u have on ur internal drive. this is very useful for upgrading to a new hard drive. just clone to the new HDD and swap it in. done! if time machine, need to make a backup on another HDD, swap drives, n restore the new drive from the time machine HDD.

the drawback of cloning is that it doesnt update itself. whatever new files u have after cloning wont get transferred to the clone HDD unless u manually copy n paste them. for time machine, new files are always sent to the time machine drive everytime u back up

so time machine = backups. superduper = cloning. if u backup with time machine already, u dun need superduper. anything wrong with ur internal hard drive, juz restore from time machine.

This post has been edited by dvlzplayground: May 14 2010, 05:46 PM

i dont believe there's a way to change the format and retaining the data inside

never used ntfsmounter before... ntfs-3g works fine for me. any reviews on ntfsmounter?

firewire is like an upgraded USB. benefits: much faster (fw800 is at least twice as fast as USB), and able to maintain the speed after daisy-chaining (more usb drives u connect, the slower it gets). bad things: kinda expensive :S

PC with fw port is very2 rare