SuperDuper

Edit: I knew this wouldn't get a reply anytime soon. I have been doing some stuff and Know I only need help with one thing. I need some software either for XP or OS X that can do what SuperDuper! does but with NTFS. plz reply ASAP. Thanks.

I downloaded SuperDuper! and am not sure which option does the full clone of my hard drive to copy all files and accounts. What is the difference between backup all files and SandBox? Thanks

Fryke: The guy at SuperDuper really helped me out--way beyond the call of duty, which is more than I can say about many of the big software vendors out there. Maybe I am not as mac-sophisticated as you but I appreciate good support when I can get it. It did everything I needed for free, and I was very happy with the outcome so I bought the $20 license If I am in the wrong...

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like Carbon Copy Cloner or shareware like Superduper and regularly backup. This way you could have covered your formating mistake. ...

Time Machine backups are not bootable, but SuperDuper! backups are (if you so choose to specifically create a "bootable" backup with SD!). Mac OS X's own Disk Utility can create bootable backups as well, although there's an intermediate step to take with Disk Utility that is not required with SuperDuper! (Note that the name of the utility is "SuperDuper!" with the...

Yup. For under $100 you can get hugemongeousity Ex-HDs. Add in Disk Warrior--connect the Ex-HD, book on DW, follow the directions to rebuild. Let me see . . . I think I have pickies: http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/DoctorX_photos/Mac%20Help/DiskWarriorDirectory.jpg basically you can create an "image" of your HD and try to pull files out of it--to your Ex-HD. ...

Super Duper will make a full bootable copy of the hard drive.

A hard drive is a hard drive -- there's no such thing as a "Mac-specific" or "Windows-specific" hard drive. The PowerMac G4 computers used an IDE (commonly referred to as ATA, PATA, IDE or EIDE) bus for their hard drives. You would need to purchase one of those kind for it to be compatible. These are different from the more recent and more common "SATA" hard drives. ...

I believe that either SuperDuper or CCC will do the job. But backup just in case. ...