On Sunday, July 11, 2004, at 04:45 PM, matblack at mac.com wrote: > Personally I use Carbon Copy and copy my entire drive AND make it > bootable. Then every so often I "synchronize." I think the advantages > are apparent, if you have the disc space. Hi - a bit of a related question. You do have to have a bootable drive to make the backup bootable, right? As I recall, I didn't get a bootable drive based on capacity needed and price/point. I figured I'd reinstall using original system disks if a problem, then restore all backup files from Dantz Retrospect, which came with my drive and I've been using without problems. Any notes to add on recovery procedures? Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design mailto:earthpigz at earthlink.net http://www.downtoearthweb.com