Re: External Fire Wire Back Up

[Robert Howells]

On 17 Mar 2006, at 10:40 AM, Wilson Tony wrote:

I have used a Sarotech External firewire drive to Superdooper my 
MacMini hard drive in total.


No problems for 3 years until now.



So does that mean you previously booted off the drive ,
or is this the first time you have tried ?

For some clues you could go to Macintouch :  



and do a search by typing   " boot external firewire "  in the search 
box .


You will get a heap of responses and will need to sort through them for 
your setup .


Here is one :



Have fun

Bob






While the 3 external drive partitions on the firewire drive show on 
the desk top and my work appears to be cloned to it, I cannot select 
it as a startup disk through system preferences. I have tried to 
repartition from IPartition but that software, while seeing the icons, 
cannot "get at it "either.


I would be happy to reformat the drive and start back ups again but I 
need advice as how to access it.


Advice would be appreciated


Regards

Tony Wilson

Tel 08 9448 1517

Metal Artwork Creations
27 Ambridge St
Hamersley  WA  6022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




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External Fire Wire Back Up

[Wilson Tony]

I have used a Sarotech External firewire drive to Superdooper my  
MacMini hard drive in total.


No problems for 3 years until now.

While the 3 external drive partitions on the firewire drive show on  
the desk top and my work appears to be cloned to it, I cannot select  
it as a startup disk through system preferences. I have tried to  
repartition from IPartition but that software, while seeing the  
icons, cannot "get at it "either.


I would be happy to reformat the drive and start back ups again but I  
need advice as how to access it.


Advice would be appreciated


Regards

Tony Wilson

Tel 08 9448 1517

Metal Artwork Creations
27 Ambridge St
Hamersley  WA  6022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]