Hi all, I have a bit of an odd problem with an ext hdd, if anyone has any ideas and the time to help then I would greatly appreciate it.
My iMac has a 1tb internal HDD partitioned 3 times in the following order - Macintosh HD / BOOTCAMP / Files (NTFS format)
I bought a brand new Toshiba 1tb external HDD so I could 'clone' the internal drive in case of drive failure. The structure for the external HDD is Mac-BackUp (with a bootable superduper clone), Win8-BackUp (with a winclone image of BOOTCAMP) and Files-BackUp (NTFS format).
1. When in Bootcamp my Files drive does not show up, I believe this is something to do with the bootloader and the Files partition effectively being the 5th partition (taking recovery and another I don't recall into consideration) and Windows won't read the 5th Partition - is that correct? Any way around it?
2. If I eject my external drive it won't show again in OSX unless I restart my computer which surprises me as other external HDDs always remounted without issue - is this down to having a bootable clone parition on the drive?
3. The bootable clone on the external HDD does not show up in my boot list when I restart and hold Alt - It really should, shouldn't it? The Toshiba has a power saving function which means it stops spinning (though doesn't eject) when not in use - is this the issue with it not showing in the Alt boot screen perhaps? Making it redundant for a superduper backup as I won't be able to boot off it?
4. The NTFS Files-BackUp on the external HDD does not mount in Bootcamp - again, is this due to it being partitioned and having HFS partitioned on it? I assumed it would mount all 3 partitions without any problem.
Lots of questions I know but I can't find any relevant answers on the web so again, any advise would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for reading!
Michael
My iMac has a 1tb internal HDD partitioned 3 times in the following order - Macintosh HD / BOOTCAMP / Files (NTFS format)
I bought a brand new Toshiba 1tb external HDD so I could 'clone' the internal drive in case of drive failure. The structure for the external HDD is Mac-BackUp (with a bootable superduper clone), Win8-BackUp (with a winclone image of BOOTCAMP) and Files-BackUp (NTFS format).
1. When in Bootcamp my Files drive does not show up, I believe this is something to do with the bootloader and the Files partition effectively being the 5th partition (taking recovery and another I don't recall into consideration) and Windows won't read the 5th Partition - is that correct? Any way around it?
2. If I eject my external drive it won't show again in OSX unless I restart my computer which surprises me as other external HDDs always remounted without issue - is this down to having a bootable clone parition on the drive?
3. The bootable clone on the external HDD does not show up in my boot list when I restart and hold Alt - It really should, shouldn't it? The Toshiba has a power saving function which means it stops spinning (though doesn't eject) when not in use - is this the issue with it not showing in the Alt boot screen perhaps? Making it redundant for a superduper backup as I won't be able to boot off it?
4. The NTFS Files-BackUp on the external HDD does not mount in Bootcamp - again, is this due to it being partitioned and having HFS partitioned on it? I assumed it would mount all 3 partitions without any problem.
Lots of questions I know but I can't find any relevant answers on the web so again, any advise would be very much appreciated.
Thanks for reading!
Michael