[X-Newbies] Carbon Copy Cloner

[Robert MacLeay]

Yes, with a big gotcha...

The second drive must have booting supported.

For instance, if both drives are internal to your Mac, no problem.

But if the second one is an external USB drive, you can clone it
successfully, but be unable to boot because pre-Macintel Macs simply won't
boot off any USB drive, no matter what is on them.

You could, however, remove a cloned drive from its USB enclosure and install
it inside your Mac, and boot off of it. I have done this.

Finally, investigate SuperDuper! as an alternative to CCC;
It offers everything CCC does and more, especially for incremental backups.

On 9/4/06 10:48 AM, "Richard Ramsowr" <r.ramsowr at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Morning All
> 
> I need a straight forward answer to a simple question
> about the use of CCC Software.
> 
> I have a 40 GB hard drive serving as my bootable drive
> and it filling up - at present itÕs about 95% full.
> 
> I want to relocate the contains of this drive to a new
> 60 GB hard drive which has been primed and is ready to
> go.
> 
> ItÕs my understanding that using CCC , I can clone my
> drive onto the second 60 GB hard drive and then use
> the cloned item as my new bootable drive. Thus
> allowing me to clean and reuse my older 40 GB drive as
> a second backup drive
> 
> Am I correct in my thinking?
> 
> Any help or direction would be helpful
> 
> Thanks all and I trust all are having a fun and safe
> labor Day Week!