Sometimes the problem is not with the copy of the disk, but the FireWire
chipset in the external drive. I have not done a bootable backup with
Retrospect, but I have with CC.
Mason
Harvey Simon wrote:
Retrospect is supposed to copy everything, but apparently it isn't getting
something right. Or it may require starting up the computer with a
Retrospect CD, which isn't a good solution for when the drive totally fails.
With Carbon Copy can you boot directly from the external drive, with no need
to pop a CD into the computer?
Any experience with SuperDuper?
Are these programs doing more than making a duplicate of the computer's HD
with all the right permissions and all the invisible files?
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From: Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:54:57 -0500
Subject: Re: Setting Up a Bootable External Drive
I¹ve been using Retrospect... I had thought I¹d be
able to boot my computer from this drive, but when I tried it...
What does it take to make a drive bootable?
Need to copy all the OS files (many of them invisible) and get their
permissions right. With OS X this is a very tricky thing to get right. I
have always found Retrospect over-complex and unrelaible. Carbon Copy Cloner
v3 is out today. Nice price: free. It is famous for doing it right.
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