John, Super Duper is rather SUPER DUPER indeed! It will create a mirror image (and bootable) copy of your internal hard drive and format then copy that image to an external drive. It works GREAT. I used it when I upgraded my Macbook hard drive from 60GB to 320GB. I had ZERO problems with this software.
Check out this handy dandy guide: http://homepage.mac.com/dnanian/ SuperDuper/SuperDuper.pdf It is what I used for my hard drive upgrade. That should answer most of your questions. HTH, Wayne On Mar 14, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Profile wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
