[G4] Backing up hard drive

[Doug Burton]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Richard Klein wrote:

> I'm trying to help my sister (long-distance) replace the hard drive in 
> her Gigabit Ethernet.
>
> Tech Tool Pro 4 reported 869 bad blocks in a surface scan of her 
> Western Digital WD400BB 40GB hard drive.  She has an external USB 
> drive that's at least 40GB, so I'll have her format that, back 
> everything up onto it, and then take it out of the external case and 
> use it to replace the Western Digital drive.
>
> How can she back it up so that, after putting the replacement drive 
> into the Mac she can just boot directly from it?
>
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Rich

Carbon Copy Cloner <http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html> should do 
what you want Rich.  Check it out.

Just a message from Doug...