On Mar 14, 2009, at 8:33 PM, <macgroup- [email protected]> <[email protected] > wrote:
> 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? John, It depends. If either your Time Machine or SuperDuper clone are recent they may inherit whatever weirdness from your drive. If you just rebuilt your drive from what they contain, that might not fix your problem. I would start with rebooting from the SuperDuper drive and see if the problem goes away. You hold down the Option key when you turn it on to get the option to boot from a different drive. Select your SuperDuper clone and see how it runs. If you still get the problem(s) you had before, reinstall the OS and bring it all the way up to the latest updaters. Then, I would run Migration Assistant (in the Utilities folder) and import from your SuperDuper drive. If that fails, the only recourse it to reset your machine up from scratch, reinstall all your apps and then copy over the files that you still need. All this is assuming that your problem is only in software. Have fun! j. -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 Certified Developer Project Foreman NewMedia Construction Co. [email protected] Instigator The BB&J Network The "Go-To Guys" for FileMaker Development in Louisville [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
