[P1] Carbon Copy Cloner

Joe Sporleder joe at beloit-kansas.com
Tue Aug 19 16:50:26 PDT 2003


The way you are doing it sounds ok. Firewire Target Disk Mode turned my
iBook into an "external firewire drive" to my G4 tower.

Joe

on 8/19/03 6:44 PM, Brian Olesky at brian4 at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> On 8/19/03 6:17 PM, "Joe Sporleder" <joe at beloit-kansas.com> wrote:
> 
>> I just had to send my iBook in for repairs, but before I did I used Carbon
>> Copy Cloner to backup 15GB ore so of files by merging with my PowerMac G4
>> tower via FireWire Target Disk Mode. I would say it took no more than 30-45
>> minutes to do all of that.
> 
> I didn't realize I had to use Firewire Target Disk Mode. My new External
> Hard Drive puts an icon on my desktop automatically, and all I did was tell
> CCC to copy from my internal drive to the external one. Which has now failed
> twice. Could not using Firewire target disk mode be the problem?



More information about the iBook mailing list