Partitioning hard drive question

[glsimonsen]

When I partitioned my main hard drive I didn't leave myself sufficient room for my boot and apps drive, and will soon run out of space. So I understand you can't repartition the drive without erasing it first. But I can't erase it or I'll have to reinstall Ableton Live (along with everything else), and I don't have anymore Ableton Unlock keys available because I think they'll only give you 2. It seems like I can't repartition due to Ableton's copy protection?

Do I have any other options? Can I put any apps on a secondary drive to save space on my boot drive? Can I add a second OSX on my secondary drive or will that confuse my computer? All my audio files are already stored on a secondary drive.

Any help appreciated,
glenn

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Actually, in OS X you can resize partitions and not loose data.

Go into Disk Utility, select the physical HD and then select the partition tab. It will tell you if you can resize safely of not. But you should be able to do that.

Do cha' love macs!

Then there is this:

http://www.macworld.com/article/55274/2 ... actor.html

And these:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=re ... gle+Search

[glsimonsen]

Well, but I'm on a PPC and apparently you gotta have an Intel. Dang. Thanks anyhow.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Well, but I'm on a PPC and apparently you gotta have an Intel. Dang. Thanks anyhow.

Sorry. Minor detail... I missed that part.

[robstudio]

Well, but I'm on a PPC and apparently you gotta have an Intel. Dang. Thanks anyhow.

Can you not resize the partition anyway? If you boot temporarily to an external drive you MAY be able to do this. Not sure if disk utility can do this.... what if you boot from your mac install disc, and run utility??? I purchased ipartion before I figured out that the utility can do most of what ipartition can. You may want to check that out...fwiw... good luck!
Regards, Rob

http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php

[HCMarkus]

You can have as many instances of OSX on different bootable drives or partitions as you want. I'm currently using Leopard on a partition on my internal Raptor, which also houses DP program and audio files which I run from another partition on a another internal drive with DP 5.13 under 10.4.11. Pick your startup disc in System Preferences>Startup Disc. Typically, applications want to be on the active system drive/partition, but data can be anywhere. I access the same documents folders under Leo and Tiger.

[Pound]

I used up all my amplitube keys, when I was having computer problems and having to reload things. I was worried that I was going to to be stuck with unusable software, but I contacted them and they understood. Maybe ableton will do the same. Just explain the situation to them.