Thus spake Our Pal Al <opa at avalon.rockefeller.edu>, circa 4/3/2003 11:09 AM: > I do NOT want to do this the first time "live". I want to clone the drive to > another, blank drive I have, then upgrade the functional duplicate. > What's the best way to make a fully functional duplicate? Will the older > 10.1 compatible version of Carbon Copy cloner work? I don't know if it's the *best* way, but when I upgraded, I used CCC to clone the drive, then upgraded the original, trusting the CCC backup. No problem. peter