SuperDuper

There are other methods such as Carbon Copy or SuperDuper or even Time Machine if you like. It's up to you. ...

Hello: I created, in Mac OS 10.3.9, a series of thousands of templates I use in my business, with fonts I have gleaned from many sources over the yrs. It amounts to hundreds & hundreds of hours expended on my part to create these templates, which are invaluable to me. When I tried to transfer these fonts to 10.4.11. by using a test template on my newest iMac, I was told,...

To have a fully bootable external (OS X will boot from and external drive) then you need to "clone" your OS X drive. A freeware application that will do this for is Carbon Copy Cloner. A shareware application that is for people you know little about how OS X works (rsync) use Super Duper. Now I see the word duper and think since CCC already does all this for free why would...

I ordered a new hard drive to replace the existing one, but I was not able to make a SuperDuper or CCC clone of my hard drive prior to it becoming unresponsive. ...

Since I bought my MacBook, which is 111.47 gigs, it has consistently showed available space as if it were approximately 1/2 of the size In September, I could count up 51 gigs of data, & I had 3+ gigs available. Verified my count with Disk Inventory counted 51 gigs, & similar result with the utility they used at the Apple Store. (51x2+3x2=108G) Today: Disk Inventory...

Onyx, SuperDuper and a host of other programs will help you run them if you don't know how to do it via Terminal. ...

You don't need nor is there an equivalent software like CCC or SuperDuper for OS 8.6. ...

Created 3 partitions on an externsl drive using ntfs-3g and apple partition. Reinstalled OS X on the MacBook Pro. I then used used SuperDuper! to force an image compy onto the external and made it a bootable volume. Then I transfered the back up image to the external OS X and used SuperDuper! to for the image to copy back to the MacBook Pro. I then used Onyx to...

There are a couple of things you can try to do. Since you have a Data Rescue program, I would suggest reading up on it NOW. I would get the external drive, boot off your Installation Disk and then use that to install an OS on your new EX-HD. Then boot on that and see if you can access data in your failing drive. If you can--copy. Or you can use a copying program like...

Thanks Natobasso, My optical drive is kaput, but I ran DiskWarrior last night (via firewire from my MacBook) to repair permissions but was not able to get past the blue screen afterwards. I have my bootable backup on my external drive (via SuperDuper) and hope that it can make a reinstall easier (if needed).