[Ti] help with 10.4

[Paul Samarin]

Just the man I need to hear from!  I'm still on 10.3.9, though, I don't 
know if it changes things.

My TiBook case cracked--4 days after my AppleCare expired, but the 
Genius at the Apple Store (or his supervisor) OK'd the repair under 
warranty, so Apple fixed it free!  I SuperDupered the HD onto a brand 
new external LaCie, and have been using that clone as the Start-up Disk 
for my old stand-by Pismo (PBG3).  Now I want to SuperDuper that data 
back to the repaired TiBook, which theoretically should mean that all 
the data that I've entered on the LaCie while the TiBook was under 
repair, will now exist on the TiBook as if I've been using it all this 
time--anyway, that's my theory and my goal.

My question:  When I used SuperDuper last week to create the clone of 
the TiBook's hd onto the LaCie, I was using the TiBook to do it.  It 
now strikes me that it shouldn't have been able to create a bootable 
disk because I was using the hd and system that I was cloning--so, some 
of the system files should not have been clonable, right?  Or am I 
missing something.

Thanks.

Paul

On Dec 14, 2005, at 7:13 AM, John Griffin wrote:

> I have done this procedure a number of times, but I use SuperDuper to 
> clone my internal disk to my Firewire backup drive. I then boot from 
> the FW drive and security erase my internal drive (which finds and 
> disables any bad sectors). Then I copy everything back over to the 
> internal drive (again, using SuperDuper). I have never had a problem 
> with this technique.
>
> I used to have all kinds of problems with CCC and stopped using it 
> quite awhile back.
>
> An alternative is to use the “Restore” function in Disk Utility to 
> move all your files to another drive and make it a bootable copy. I 
> did this once and it worked just fine. But SuperDuper is much, much 
> faster and has lots of other neat features (like making a “Sandbox” to 
> preserve the integrity of your system).
>
> jg