[HM] Reformat hard drive

[Brian Olesky]

My understanding is that Retrospect is the Cadillac (maybe Lexus these days)
of backup programs, and can certainly make the copy you need. I've never
used it, but don't you have a manual? If not, you can go online to their
site, use their Help files or whatever.

But if you have one of the versions of Retrospect (I think Express is the
one most people use) you should be able to use that to meet your needs.

But I know you can't just drag and drop with OSX.

Brian

On 3/2/06 10:12 PM, "Jane Sprando" <janesprando at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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