[X4U] Question on copying a drive

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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?
> 
> Allan
> Nashua, New Hampshire
> allanrube.com
> www.nebirds.com 

I haven't tried cloning a working source volume. I'd boot to CD/DVD and use Disk Utility from there- should go fairly quickly.

S