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Re: OT: Clone Question for Mac Folks [message #64173 is a reply to message #64172] |
Sat, 04 February 2006 16:37 |
gene lennon
Messages: 565 Registered: July 2006
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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:
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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
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>Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner for OSX.
>Both work. For OS9.X you can use the Finder.
>Gene
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