[HM] Reformat hard drive

[Jane Sprando]

Brian, I have Retrospect Back Up, but I don't think it will clone the hard
drive.

Jane



on 3/2/06 7:22 PM, Brian Olesky at brian4 at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> Do you have software that will let you "clone" your hard drive onto the
> external drive? Software like SuperDuper, DataBackup, etc.? If so, then you
> can simply copy it over to the external drive, wipe the internal drive
> clean, then "clone" it back. But I believe you can't do it with a simple
> drag and drop. OSX doesn't work that way.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On 3/2/06 6:57 PM, "Jane Sprando" <janesprando at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Here is my set up: G4 iMac that boots into 9 and 10; running 10.2.8;
>> partitioned into 2 hard drives; external Firewire drive
>> 
>> I want to reformat the iMac's hard drive so that I only have one drive. Can
>> I just drag everything over to the Firewire drive, reformat, then drag
>> everything back to the iMac?
>> 
>> If this won't work, what would you suggest?
>> 
>> Jane
>> 
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