bought wife an iMac last month. bought a copy of 10.5 for her to load.
she wants to clone her drive with the 10.4.X on it before install of 10.5.
Good idea. No telling what the dot oh version will do.
there is a recommendation of using an external firewire drive instead of
an external USB
Gerald,
I'd say to get an external FireWire hard drive
either 400 or 800MHz transfer speed. Forget the
USB drives that you have as backup drives
for your Mac, use FW.
Use the USB drives for other things.
I have not had a chance to evaluate Time Machine
that comes with OS 10.5 So, I'd say...
I have not had a chance to evaluate Time Machine
that comes with OS 10.5 So, I'd say...
Get software called SuperDuper, set the schedule for
Time Machine and SuperDuper do very different things. For a personal
computer, I think Time Machine is going to be a lot more useful, but I
can see
If you want a look inside an older iMac look here.
http://home.comcast.net/~woojo/DFFA53A0-F23D-4541-9015-481FD3B6532E/iMac_Disassembly.html
I agree with Tom it isn't worth opening the case for this. Buy a
firewire hard drive enclosure and just mount a hard drive in that.
You can easily pull a
Tom,
Could you explain the scenario you have in mind where both might be useful?
Thanks.
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From: Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 02:29:32 -0500
Subject: Re: cloning iMac drive
I have not had a chance to evaluate Time Machine
that comes with OS 10.5
Could you explain the scenario you have in mind where both might be useful?
Backup the full drive to quickly swap out a failed drive. Use Time
Machine to recover files in between full backups and to recover from
accidents.
bought wife an iMac last month. bought a copy of 10.5 for her to load. she
wants to clone her drive with the 10.4.X on it before install of 10.5.
there is a recommendation of using an external firewire drive instead of an
external USB drive. I have a couple USB drives around, but do not have
My back up drive is a firewire drive. What is nice with the firewire
drive is that you can boot from it in an emergency with no problems.
The USB is fine for backing up files, but if you want to make a bootable
clone of your hard drive I recommend using a Firewire drive. If you
have a
