Yesterday when I cloned on external drive to another using CCC, I just left the machine running. It took less than an hour for whatever, because when I came back to it, it was finished. No target disk mode. That would work only with another machine, not with a drive. Gary Brian Olesky 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?