Folks, I need some direction. I have an iMac that has been weird ever since I tried to defrag with TechTools. I even had to do an reinstall of Leopard using the append method. That helped for awhile but now it is slow and won't reboot.
I have TechTools running again tonight but if it finds nothing wrong (I have already used DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory) I will reformat the hard drive and start all over but here is my question. I have a complete backup on both Time Machine and SuperDuper. I have NEVER had to use them to restore and am wondering how to do a total and complete restore using either of these. Supposedly the SuperDuper is a bootable drive, if so how does this work. Do I hold down a particular key when rebooting to choose the SuperDuper drive? If I then boot from that drive how do I then use the software to completely restore the iMac drive? What steps do I go through. I would use the Mac OS install disk to reformat, do I then reboot to the SuperDuper drive or do I go ahead and install the OS and THEN use SuperDuper? I am needing direction so I do this correctly, and I am hoping that using it this way will not put back onto the drive whatever was causing the problem. Many thanks for any help by those that have used this before. John _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be March 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
