[Ti] Should I reformat

[Dennis Fazio]

--On Saturday, January 24, 2004 01:58 PM -0500 Mark Swanson 
<mswanson9988 at comcast.net> wrote:

> If CCC makes an apparent duplicate copy of my internal drive to an external
> firewire drive.  Is it safe to reformat the internal drive?

Yes, if you have a good backup.

> How do I
> assure myself the external drive is a valid copy of everything on my
> internal drive?

If you set CCC to make a bootable clone, restart your PowerBook and boot from 
the firewire disk by holding the option key while restarting and choosing the 
firewire volume. If it comes up fine and you can read all your files on the 
firewire drive, you should be able to wipe your internal disk, reformat, 
repartition if you want and clone everything back.

I have done this; it does work. Just do it very carefully so you don't 
accidentally lose anything. It would be best if your home directory is also 
backed up in another place.

-- 
Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com