Wayne, I answered your help then clicked on the link. It sure didn't take me to what you had described. Is there another link?
John On Mar 14, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Wayne Bonnett wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
