On 12/17/08, Mark Des Cotes <lists at marksmandesign.ca> wrote: > > I know I can't boot from a USB2 external drive. If I make a clone of > my HD to the USB2 external drive using CCC, could I, if the need ever > arises, take the drive out of it's enclosure put it in a FireWire > enclosure and boot from it? Or do I have to make the clone directly > to a FW drive? Why go through all of that when you can just pop the HD into a FW enclosure and leave it there. USB is significantly slower than FireWire.