I want to copy the contents of my boot drive to make an exact , bootable copy. I am using Disk Utility. After selecting the source volume (the drive I booted from) and the destination, I started the process. After calculating the time to complete it says it will take over 2 days. My question is can I use my boot drive for email and web surfing during this time or do all applications (except Disk Copy and the finder) need to be closed? Allan Nashua, New Hampshire allanrube.com www.nebirds.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20100622/eccab00c/attachment.htm>