Howard Katz wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Greg Koelpien wrote: >>> Is it possible to clone to a clamshell ibook that doesn't have firewire? >>> This would mean, I'm assuming, connecting to another mac using either a >>> USB or a cat-5 ethernet connection. >>> >>> Forgive me if this has been addressed already, but I cannot find this >>> situation answered in the archives. >> Your problem in this case is that you only have two choices to boot >> from, the HD or the CD/DVD drive. You can't clone the HD if you are >> booted off it (unless it's partitioned). You can't run the cloning >> software while booted off the optical drive. >> >> Your only choice is to physically remove the HD, connect it to a drive >> interface and copy it using another computer. > > I thought you could use CCC or SuperDuper to clone a drive via > USB--just data after all. And I've made bootable clones of my HD, > from my HD using SuperDuper all the time--it's how I do backups. :) > Yes, you could clone TO a USB drive. But the OP wanted to clone FROM a USB drive. That means booting of something other than the built in drive which won't work.
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