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Can i run Snow Leopard and Leopard on a partitioned HD?

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JasNature

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i use pro tools and until snow leopard and digi design come up with a patch i dont want to put snow leopard on my mac... but if i partition the HD and take 200GB, can i just put Snow Leopard on this partition and use it for every day tasks such as social networkin and whatnot while my original HD still has everything installed such as apps and whatnot that came with macbook including pro tools. any feedback or insights is much appreciated!!
 
I guess you could, it'd be a situation of separate OSs, but then I'd question why? Why would you bother with SL so long as you're waiting on patches to run your programs? Just chill with 10.5.9 until they figure out where their heads are with 10.6.
 
I'm running both on my Mac Pro (although they're on separate internal disks, but that's no matter). But I agree with others -- Leopard will do just fine for your social networking, so the effort in reformatting the drive to load two OSes (only then to reformat it agin later) seems not worth it.
 
thanks so much... i guess i am just being impatient to the fact that i want to check out Snow Leopard but at same time don't want to disable my mac making it useless for pro tools which means i cant work n make money....

i appreciate you all responding :)
 
Richard1028 said:
Speaking of where somebody's head is at... how's that 10.5.9 version working out for you?
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Well sweet cheeks, since I'm on SL, it's not working. Then again you're right, I guess 10.5.8 would have been a better statement. Either way, it's clear to me that you're just as confused. ;)
 
partitioned my internal with tiger and sl. i have alot of stuff on tiger i use only occasionally that i don;t want to clutter up sl with.

i'll always have a use for my tiger system. i'll always have a use for my old 8600. just because a new os comes out doesn't mean everything before it no longer works.
 
Wie Gehts said:
partitioned my internal with tiger and sl. i have alot of stuff on tiger i use only occasionally that i don;t want to clutter up sl with.

i'll always have a use for my tiger system. i'll always have a use for my old 8600. just because a new os comes out doesn't mean everything before it no longer works.
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i don't think it's a question of 'everything before it no longe works'

i think it's a question of the updates generally running better, and faster.
 
there is also an economic issue. sometimes i buy apps that i use rarely or find that i just ain't that into, but may still want to mess around in when the mood hits, that won't justify the continuing purchasing the next big upgrade(s).
so they reside on the 'old' system that they run on. still working. forever and ever.....
 
It's a great idea for the OP to partition a portion of his hard drive and install SL on it, this way he can test what programs work with it or any issues that he might run into, he can also test ProTools to see how it runs. If everything is good then he can dump that partition and install SL as his main OS.
 
@HLdan thanks... i was still thinking of doing it just to have everything on original HD and do what u said about testing SL with certain programs... not like partitioning would be a waste cause i could always make use of it when Digi design and Snow Leopard release a patch for pro tools...
 
Update

so i went ahead and experimented with the partition... i Downloaded Snow Leopard onto the second HD and have had no issues... i just hold down Option key when comp boots up then i am given an option to choose between partitions :)
 
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