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OT: Clone Question for Mac Folks [message #64166] Sat, 04 February 2006 16:02 Go to next message
emarenot is currently offline  emarenot   UNITED STATES
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I just stumbled onto a killer deal for a Mac G4. As I understand very
little about how Macs are set up, I want to make a copy of the system hard
drive. I'm a frekin' newbie with this stuff. But, I want to be able to
make an EXACT copy of the system (boot) drive (onto a new drive), so that if
the "old" drive fails, I can just plug the drive-copy into the IDE chain,
and continue on as though the old drive wasn't actually in the garbage can.
Is this what "cloning" a drive is all about? I found this program called
Super Duper which might fit the bill. Yes?
Thanks!
MR
Re: OT: Clone Question for Mac Folks [message #64172 is a reply to message #64166] Sat, 04 February 2006 16:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
gene lennon is currently offline  gene lennon
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"Mike R." <emarenot@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I just stumbled onto a killer deal for a Mac G4. As I understand very
>little about how Macs are set up, I want to make a copy of the system hard
>drive. I'm a frekin' newbie with this stuff. But, I want to be able to
>make an EXACT copy of the system (boot) drive (onto a new drive), so that
if
>the "old" drive fails, I can just plug the drive-copy into the IDE chain,
>and continue on as though the old drive wasn't actually in the garbage can.
>Is this what "cloning" a drive is all about? I found this program called
>Super Duper which might fit the bill. Yes?
>Thanks!
>MR
>
Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner for OSX.
Both work. For OS9.X you can use the Finder.
Gene
Re: OT: Clone Question for Mac Folks [message #64173 is a reply to message #64172] Sat, 04 February 2006 16:37 Go to previous message
gene lennon is currently offline  gene lennon
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I should point out that a lot of software that is registered to the computers
i.d. will need to be re-registered, even from a cloned drive.
With certain manufacturers like NI, this is a real pain!
Gene

"gene lennon" <glennon@NOSPmyrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>"Mike R." <emarenot@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>I just stumbled onto a killer deal for a Mac G4. As I understand very
>>little about how Macs are set up, I want to make a copy of the system hard
>>drive. I'm a frekin' newbie with this stuff. But, I want to be able to
>>make an EXACT copy of the system (boot) drive (onto a new drive), so that
>if
>>the "old" drive fails, I can just plug the drive-copy into the IDE chain,
>>and continue on as though the old drive wasn't actually in the garbage
can.
>>Is this what "cloning" a drive is all about? I found this program called
>>Super Duper which might fit the bill. Yes?
>>Thanks!
>>MR
>>
>Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner for OSX.
>Both work. For OS9.X you can use the Finder.
>Gene
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