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spaceballl

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Nov 2, 2003
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So I need to ship off my macbook to its eBay buyer tomorrow so i'm doing some last minute backup things to make sure I don't lose anything. I couldn't decide whether i wanted to do a time machine restore or just pull over my music and photos and start fresh.

So... I have a 320gb external drive (western digital passport USB2). It used to be a time machine disk. Now i'm re-partitioning it, 160gb for time machine, 130gb for just holding files.

Well, it's been in the "Creating partition map." state for a long time now. Is this normal? It's been like 20 minutes.
 
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