[X4U] Duplicating?

[Jeff Carruthers]

Mark: if you have a MacIntel machine, you can boot from a USB2 drive.  
The drive has to be formatted with a GUID partition.

If you have a PowerPC Mac, then you can only boot off an external  
firewire drive. Note that the hard drive must be formatted using an  
Apple partition map.

To be sure it would work, I would create the drive in a firewire  
enclosure and make sure it boots, then slip it into a USB2 case. If  
you clone to the USB2 case, you will be flying blind (all fingers and  
toes crossed) as to whether it will work later in a firewire  
enclosure. But it "should" work.

The one other thing is that clone you make for a PowerPC Mac will not  
boot on a Macintel machine.

Hope this helps.

Jeff
On Dec 17, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> I know I can't boot from a USB2 external drive. If I make a clone of  
> my HD to the USB2 external drive using CCC, could I, if the need  
> ever arises, take the drive out of it's enclosure put it in a  
> FireWire enclosure and boot from it? Or do I have to make the clone  
> directly to a FW drive?
>
> Mark Des Cotes
> Owner-Graphic Designer
> Marksman Design
>

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