In fact, SuperDuper's documentation notes that some firewire hard drives may not be capable of booting up a computer. I had no idea this was the case and I'm hoping that my Iomega HD will not fall into that category.
------ Forwarded Message From: Mason Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:07:38 -0400 Subject: Re: Setting Up a Bootable External Drive 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? > > > > ------ Forwarded Message > 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. 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