The way you are doing it sounds ok. Firewire Target Disk Mode turned my iBook into an "external firewire drive" to my G4 tower. Joe on 8/19/03 6:44 PM, Brian Olesky at brian4 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > On 8/19/03 6:17 PM, "Joe Sporleder" <joe at beloit-kansas.com> wrote: > >> I just had to send my iBook in for repairs, but before I did I used Carbon >> Copy Cloner to backup 15GB ore so of files by merging with my PowerMac G4 >> tower via FireWire Target Disk Mode. I would say it took no more than 30-45 >> minutes to do all of that. > > I didn't realize I had to use Firewire Target Disk Mode. My new External > Hard Drive puts an icon on my desktop automatically, and all I did was tell > CCC to copy from my internal drive to the external one. Which has now failed > twice. Could not using Firewire target disk mode be the problem?