[Ti] System Drive problem

[Karen Lindner]

Yes.  SuperDuper clones are bootable.

On Sep 19, 2008, at 4:03 PM, m_flynn at comcast.net wrote:

> Can I boot the system from the SuperDuper CD?
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Bill Palmer <whpalmer4 at yahoo.com>
>
> > There are only two kinds of hard drive mechanisms -- those that  
> have already
> > failed, and those that eventually will. Yours is the latter, well  
> on the way to
> > becoming the former. You should take immediate steps to get your  
> data onto
> > something more reliable. My recommendation is an external Firewire  
> disk at
> > least as large as the failing disk, plus a copy of SuperDuper!  
> SuperDuper! will
> > make a bootable clone of your disk on the external drive. Do that  
> regularly and
> > you can simply boot from the external disk when the internal drive  
> inevitably
> > fails. Then you can use SuperDuper! to clone the bits from the  
> external back
> > onto your newly replaced drive. If you're a do-it-yourself kind of  
> guy, you can
> > get a rep laceme nt drive from Other World Computing or the like  
> along with an
> > inexpensive external drive case, clone the disk, and then install  
> the new disk
> > in the computer to replace the old one. If you value the data on  
> the disk,
> > don't put this off...
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > --- On Thu, 9/18/08, m_flynn at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> > > From: m_flynn at comcast.net
> > > Subject: [Ti] System Drive problem
> > > To: Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> > > Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 10:16 AM
> > > I have a Power Mac 1gig mem 60gb drive. I am losing my hard
> > > drive. I tried using DiskWarrior and it gets me back to the
> > > sign on screen but that's it. It says, at times, that
> > > the drive is to slow to complete some of the tasks. My
> > > question is can a drive be saved if it's a speed th ing. < BR>>  
> > In other words Is there a chnce this can be saved?
> > >
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