On Aug 27, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Dan wrote: > At 3:54 PM -0700 8/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote: >> I need to CCC an entire HDD including 3 partitions on the drive and I can't >> seem to get CCC to do it nor Drive genius 3 can someone point me in the >> direction or am I being lazy here? > > You could do a block-by-block copy of a whole drive. Of course, that image > would be useless unless you have a destination drive that is *exactly* of the > same geometry (including bad block maps etc). > > Back up each file system (volume) individually. That's the point of having > individual file systems (partitions) - they are separate from each other. > > If the issue is that you're trying to stuff them all onto one target > volume,,, then back up the volumes into sparse disk images. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
Bummer I was trying to be cheapo on the CCC for an entire HDD to create another with one click instead of three. I have a drive that has three boot volumes and I wanted to just copy the entire drive without making the separate partitions and then CCC each volume:-) John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
