Hello, this is my first post! 
I just got new 320 GB drive to replace my tiny 60GB on my MacBook.
From gathering information on several sites, initially I came up with the following:
Mac Extended Journal format with Guid partition
1st Partition: OS X (Tiger) + Apps + (may be Virtual Box http://www.virtualbox.org/ with Linux which I want to do for the first time)
2nd Partition: Recovery (I'd like to have OS X with some software for quick fix on the road as I don't want to carry around Installation disks)
3rd Partition: Files
Questions are:
Q1 - If I install virtual Linux, do I need to make an extra partition (so it will be 4 partition total) for virtual Linux to save files?
How about formatting that extra partition?
Would it be "Free space" or "MS-Dos file system"?
Q2 - Recovery - Any suggestion I should install besides OS disk utility, and some recovery tools from Apple care?
Should I look into other 3rd party vendors?
Q3 - I really don't want to deal with any Windows , but I will need to download or share occasional files (mostly video editing) for my biz related clients on the road.
Should I consider Windows on a partition?
Any suggestion and/or help will be appreciated!
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MacBook - Tiger, CoreDuo, 2GB ram, with soon to be 320GB HD
I just got new 320 GB drive to replace my tiny 60GB on my MacBook.
From gathering information on several sites, initially I came up with the following:
Mac Extended Journal format with Guid partition
1st Partition: OS X (Tiger) + Apps + (may be Virtual Box http://www.virtualbox.org/ with Linux which I want to do for the first time)
2nd Partition: Recovery (I'd like to have OS X with some software for quick fix on the road as I don't want to carry around Installation disks)
3rd Partition: Files
Questions are:
Q1 - If I install virtual Linux, do I need to make an extra partition (so it will be 4 partition total) for virtual Linux to save files?
How about formatting that extra partition?
Would it be "Free space" or "MS-Dos file system"?
Q2 - Recovery - Any suggestion I should install besides OS disk utility, and some recovery tools from Apple care?
Should I look into other 3rd party vendors?
Q3 - I really don't want to deal with any Windows
, but I will need to download or share occasional files (mostly video editing) for my biz related clients on the road. Should I consider Windows on a partition?
Any suggestion and/or help will be appreciated!
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MacBook - Tiger, CoreDuo, 2GB ram, with soon to be 320GB HD