OK, went to Staples today cuz I was passing it, a waste of time. They
only
had USB drives. Did some googling and it looks like with an Intel Mac
any
Firewire will do, and most USB will work but that's not optimum.
Also was suggested to use SuperDuper to clone. I've always used Carbon
Copy Cloner. Comparisons? What do you guys like?
Also it said Time Machine doesn't create bootable drives. What the ... ?
On Mar 11, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Wayne Stewart wrote:
If the backup is made by cloning your hard drive then it should be
bootable. Firewire is preferable to USB 2.0 as USB 2.0 is pretty slow
to boot from but in a pinch it works. If your backup was done with
Time Machine then it's not bootable.
If you want to see if your backup is bootable, you can choose the boot
drive by holding down the option key at startup.
On Mar 11, 7:01 am, Anne Keller-Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
To anyone affected in or by Japan's crisis, I want to just say I am
so
sorry.
OK, my question: with our Intel iMacs, can we use any external hard
drive as a system backup? Can you boot up on them? Do they have to be
Firewire?
I have an iomega, and yes, it's got Firewire. I do complete backups
on
it frequently but have never had to boot
from it ...
Anne Keller Smith
Down to Earth Web Design
Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo
1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5
Intel iMac 2.66gHz Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM, 264GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.6
G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower
896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11
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1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5
Intel iMac 2.66gHz Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM, 264GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.6
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