[X4U] Question on copying a drive

[Fabian Fang]

On Jun 22, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Allan Rube wrote:

> I want to copy the contents of my boot drive to make an exact ,  
> bootable copy. I am using Disk Utility. After selecting the source  
> volume (the drive I booted from) and the destination, I started the  
> process. After calculating the time to complete it says it will take  
> over 2 days.
>
> My question is – can I use my boot drive for email and web surfing  
> during this time or do all applications (except Disk Copy and the  
> finder) need to be closed?


Why not use the freeware Carbon Copy Cloner, which will take much less  
time than two days to clone your boot drive?

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