I would like to reformat an external hard drive at the media level, hopefully to salvage it for another few years. It contains three CCC volumes that I want to safeguard. A fourth volume has corrupted files. What is the best procedure? All volumes are formatted Journaled HFS Plus, NOT APFS.
As I understand it, Disk Utility First Aid I use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup four computers to the external drive as bootable clones. Each CCC volume resides in its own partition. The volume for my main computer has corrupted files which have not been resolved by reformatting that volume singly with Disk Utility Erase and then cloning anew. I want the clones to remain bootable. Can I simply drag each volume to another media, to either my iMac’s internal drive or another external drive? Would I need to create separate partitions for each volume? Otherwise, should the volumes be set into disk images? Bombich (CCC vendor) recommends using disk images “sparingly.” Then, would I update each disk image in subsequent clones, or would I “Restore” each volume to permit updating the clones? Thanks for any guidance. Al Poulin -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/232AAED5-CD6D-40A0-A8FB-5673C6C71D3E%40gmail.com.
