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Authored by: alancookie on Apr 23, '02 06:11:51PM

I have used it several times to not only clone to a FW disk but to another laptop (for use in our computer lab)...I also had many problems and was unsuccessful until I read somewhere that the trick was to first use erase drive in Disk Utility (located in the Utilities Folder inside the Applications Folder in OS X) to format the target drive first and be sure to check the "install OS 9 drivers"...and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the drive. Hope this helps...



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Authored by: wuf810 on Apr 23, '02 07:18:57PM

I've been using CCC for a while with no problems at all. Backups or clones have always been to La Cie Pocket drives using Firewire. I can only guess that the problems mentioned above may be something to do with the drive itself - I always do a fall erase of the backup drive before starting which may help.

As an aside, I had 7 new iMacs to setup at my company. I did one completely including classic and Native apps such as Office etc, then used CCC to backup to a firewire drive. Then using the Apple, Ctrl, Option "bypass" key combination I was able to boot the other iMacs from the firewire drive and cloned the copy onto them one at a time. Saved days of setup time.



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