Repartitioning for two bootable clones

Before moving from Panther to Leopard I used SuperDuper! to make a bootable clone on an external Firewire HD which had a single partition. Can I now use the Leopard Disk Utility to create a second partition on that drive and then use SuperDuper! to create a bootable Leopard clone?
Will I be able to boot whichever clone I want?
Should I expect problems if I boot the Panther clone?

semicolons wrote:
As far as I know, partitioning requires a complete erase of the drive. I do not think there is any way around this.
Of course, I may be completely wrong and everything will be OK anyway.
But I think not.
Not so in Leopard. From what I've heard, Leopard lets you partition non-destructively.
Good luck!

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Is a bootable clone necessary before upgrading to Lion (also Parallels 6)?

I'm thinking about upgrading to Lion on the MBP and the MacPro where I am running Parallels 6 with Windows 7.
Two questions:
1. How bad of an idea is it to do this without running a backup that includes a full bootable clone? I have a full backup of the machines but I think (?) someone advised doing a bootable clone before doing this upgrade. Not sure but wondering if anyone has any good advice on this. I guess the need for the bootable clone (assuming I am moving to Lion) would be in case I need to reload all the settings and everything from the year and a half I spent getting everything to my liking (no small amount of work)? I mean, I wouldn't re-load the bootable clone and then only work off of Snow Leopard so I guess (?) I am asking if there is other info in the bootable clone that makes it different from a normal backup in such an instance.
2. Does anyone know of any definitive documentation that tells me whether to upgrade to Parallels 7 first or if I go to Lion first for the upgrade? Does one need to go before the other?
Thanks.
Jon

hotwheels 22 wrote:
1. How bad of an idea is it to do this without running a backup that includes a full bootable clone?
If your Lion upgrade hoses, like it usually does for those upgrading over a complicated Snow Leopard, a hold the option key bootable clone of Snow Leopard on a external drive will get you using the computer in the time it takes to boot off of it.
It will also allow you to completely erase the internal drive and reverse clone Snow Leopard right back on.
If you do have to erase Lion, make sure you do it via the Partiton tab, so the entire drive is erased, not just the Lion OS X Partition.
2. Does anyone know of any definitive documentation that tells me whether to upgrade to Parallels 7 first or if I go to Lion first for the upgrade? Does one need to go before the other?
You'll have to talk to Parallels, but if the software works with 10.6 and 10.7 then it's best to upgrade to the 10.6/10.7 version on 10.6 (make a clone first before doing anything) then checking it out well before updating the clone.
Take your time, investigate all your software before making a leap, a clone or two will most certainly be of valuable assistance.
Move slowly and carefully, don't do too much at once or you won't know what is causing your issues.
Remember software like Parallels and others install kext files that can break on OS X upgrades, if you get a gray screen, simply hold Shift key and reboot to get into the machine.
Ideally it's best to install Snow Leopard fresh, then upgrade to Lion, then install all programs then user files last, hopefully you won't have to do all that but it is the most reliable method of insuring a pristine system and upgrade free of the unknowns.
Learn how to do clone here, formatting and other instructions too.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16276201#16276201

What exactly should I clone/ backup for a bootable functional external HD?

I want to do two things with an external hard drive: 1) in one partition, clone the system & applications part of my computer; 2) in the other partition, keep my NORMALLY USED iTunes Library plus backups of documents and whatever else.
The question:
**what should I actually clone to the first partition?**
Will it work if I just clone the Applications and System folders? Within that partition, I just want the working parts of the system--Tiger and all my applications--and I want that as a bootable clone, but without all the disk-devouring music and photo libraries. (Those are backed up elsewhere.)
If one day my laptop's HD dies (again!), I want to just plug in the external HD, clone that first partition over, and see everything ready to use, but without the data. Will that work?
(Background: laptop HD is 80GB and uncomfortably full, mainly because of a 30GB+ music library; external LaCie HD is 80GB. I don't want to clone the complete HD because I want to use the LaCie to boost my functional HD space. Yeah, I should have bought a bigger external HD, oh well.)
It suddenly occurs to me it's rather pathetic to be writing this on Christmas Day. Oh well. It's not much of an occasion in Taiwan.

Oops... I was totally wrong about what the Library actually is. I thought it contained stuff that's actually within "Users".
SuperDuper is definitely what I wanted. I was having problems because I was trying to make a "bottom-up" collection of files: compiling all the relevant material, and that leads to all kinds of hidden files and stuff that I don't know to add. SuperDuper does it in a top down way: I can select a script to copy everything, and then adjust the script so the Picture folder is NOT copied. Problem solved, I think. (One page in the SuperDuper manual explains how to do this, but unfortunately my first scan of the manual missed that section!)
I've tried booting from the Picture/Movie/Music less external HD partition, and it works exactly as I wanted: the system's there but there are none of the memory-hogging collections.
Extra bonus is that I've now set this script up to clone the System and Applications components every two weeks.
Note that you CANNOT tailor things this way with the free version of SuperDuper; you have to pay for the license.
What I've got now: 80GB external HD has a 30GB partition with everything cloned (twice a month) EXCEPT for the Pictures, Movies, and Music folders. A 45GB partition currently has the music library (at about 30GB) and will probably collect other backups. And my laptop hard drive (nonpartitioned) now has 40GB of free space, to which in a few days (once I'm sure everything's working smoothly) I'll add about 10GB worth of burnt photo libraries.
I'm still a bit confused about "System" terminology: the System Folder with the OS, vs the System Disk, which I suppose is everything all together. However, that doesn't really matter now.
Thanks for everyone's help.

Bootable clones for both iMac (Intel) and G5 (PPC) on same external drive??

Is it possible to format and partition one external firewire drive to accept a bootable clone of my iMac (Intel) on one partition and my G5 (PPC) on the other? I seem to remember that in order to be able to boot, the Intel and the PPC require something different in formatting on the drive.
If this is not possible, could I as a second choice format/partition an external firewire drive to place a bootable clone of the G5 on one partition and a Time Machine backup of the iMac on the other? I am looking for a way to store just one rather than two drives in my safety deposit box. Thanks

I put up instructions and a picture showing how to select the partition scheme:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leobugs.html
Scroll down to about the middle of the page.
Frankly I was surprised to find out you can boot an Intel machine from a drive that is APM rather than GUID. I'm not sure that what you want to do is going to be as easy as one would hope. Anyway, the instructions I found for dual booting off a firewire drive sounded a bit complex!
Francine
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How do I make a bootable clone (with Lion already installed on my Mac)?

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help clarify with a step-by-step on this. Here's the deal: I have a 2008 MacBook Pro, which I updated from Snow Leopard to Lion via the App Store. I have decided to upgrade my internal hard drive (which I've done before) from a 500GB to 750GB, but after doing a couple hours of research, the whole Lion element is making me nervous.
I've been reading about the whole Lion Recovery partition, which won't be brought over with a simple cloning process (via SuperDuper! or the like) and I'm now thoroughly confused with how to do this the proper way. I don't know if I need to use the Recovery Disk Assistant app on the new 750GB hard drive, or on a separate (third) drive, or to make a bootable Lion install disk on either, or even if I do do these things, how this meshes on the new drive, and do I need to format the new drive with two partitions for the Recovery partition to be a part of it?... Oy.
I'd really be appreciative if someone with the know-how of this process could help with the steps. It doesn't need to be crazy thorough--as I said, I've at least replaced my drive before--but I'm not an expert by any stretch (as a point of reference: bring up Terminal and my eyes will roll back in my head). I just need to know what to do in what order, with at least a little detail. And if it means anything to you, I'm the type of guy who likes to know WHY I'm doing something, if possible... Thanks in advance for your time and help.
(I've already got the new 750GB drive in hand, an external enclosure and a separate 8GB+ drive, too.)

You can use 3rd party software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! to create a bootable clone on an external drive.
I use SuperDuper to create a clone. Yes, it's true the Recovery HD will need to be recreated after restoring a clone because neither of these softwares nor Time Machine backup that partition. It's really no big deal. You just reinstall Lion on top of itself after the restore and reapply any Software Updates including the 10.7.1 update. I've done this a few times with no issues.
The Lion Recovery Assistant app creates an external Recovery HD on like a USB thumb drive, but it creates this using the Recovery HD from your Lion install. If the Recovery HD is missing, the app will not create one for you.
EDITED:
Create your bootable clone on an external drive.
Create an external USB thumb drive with the Recovery HD using the Lion Recovery Assistant.
Swap out hard drives.
Boot from the USB Recovery HD thumb drive.
Use Disk Utilities to create a new partition (Macintosh HD), format it with the GUID partition table and Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
While in Disk Utilities, click your hard drive (not the new partition); then click the Restore button.
The Source of your restore is the external clone you created. The Destination is the newly created Macintosh HD partition.
Click the Restore button. The restore will take awhile depending on the size of the clone.
After the restore, boot your system and it should boot into Lion.
Reinstall Lion on top of itself to recreate the Recovery HD at the end of your Lion partition.
Reapply Software Updates including the 10.7.1 update (if you want it).
Hope this helps!

Bootable Clone/Backup-How to?

Ever since updating to 10.4.11 a lot of strange things have started to happen on my miniG4
too numerous to get into .Like an idiot I have never backed up my system ( I don't use it for work, I'm not in school) so I think it is time to do an "erase and install".I do have lots of 3rd
party programs I would to hang on to so I'll copy them all to DVD. Here is my question: Do I need to make a bootable clone of my startup disk? I have tried to repair my HDD with fsck
disk utility an even tried AppleJack all with no success at correcting all the peccadillos that have started plaguing me.I have my apple installation DVD's but how can I do this and preserve my network prefs. etc? I have been a mac user for 8 years with no problems until recently,so I'm really inept at troubleshooting.Could someone give me a few tips on what to do here ? I would like to say that the few minor problems I've had I got answers to by reading the forums but this seems like a big thing. I welcome any and all sound advice and
Thanks,
Tim

There's no point cloning your current system because it is already corrupt. However, once you reinstall it would be a good idea to clone the new system while it's still in working order. Here's some appropriate information:
Basic Backup
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
8. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
9. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
Although you can buy a complete FireWire drive system, you can also put one together if you are so inclined. It's relatively easy and only requires a Phillips head screwdriver (typically.) You can purchase hard drives separately. This gives you an opportunity to shop for the best prices on a hard drive of your choice. Reliable brands include Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital, Toshiba, and Fujitsu. You can find reviews and benchmarks on many drives at Storage Review.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
Cool Drives
OWC
WiebeTech
Firewire Direct
California Drives
NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver.
How to Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
You can also clone using third-party backup software such as those I have recommended above.
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.6.1 is Leopard compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. The current version, 1.5.1, is Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline. Note that presently AppleJack is not compatible with Leopard.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com.

Partitioning a 256 GB SSD into two bootable partitions

I will soon get a 27in iMac Core i7 with a 1 TB internal and a 256 GB SSD.
I have three questions :
1- Can I partition the SSD so as to get two bootable partitions (one with Snow Leopard and the other with a clone of this same Snow Leopard partition that I will eventually upgrade to Lion when it gets available) ?
One of my goals is to keep an Operating System with Rosetta available.
2- Will it still be possible to install Bootcamp (Windows 7) on an NTFS partition on the 1 TB Internal drive, amongst other partition(s) ?
3- Any chance of predicting how Windows 7 will react to the presence of an internal SSD ?
(Will it merely see the SSD partitions? Will it be able to read and write to them ?)
Thanks in advance for your concern.
PP

1. Yes.
2. Yes as long as there is only the one OS X partition before setting up Boot Camp. You cannot create other partitions or you will lose the ability to manage the Boot Camp partition (remove it and/or re-add it.)
3. Windows will not read or write the OS X volumes.

Can I use a USB 2.0 external HDD as a bootable clone?

Hi all -
That's the question really, apologies if it's been asked numerous time before, I couldn't find a straight answer when I searched. I currently have 2 Firewire externals. One is for Time Machine, the other is a bootable clone. However the bootable clone is too small for my current iMac's internal HDD. Can I use a USB 2.0 instead or does it have to be Firewire? And would it need its own power supply, or could it be USB powered?
Thanks

No prob, Thanks for the star.
Your better off starting a new thread for a new question as it will have a different title and more people may be able to help.
A quick search in amazon brought up this:
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-500GB-Scorpio-Laptop/dp/B001JSSDGU/ref=sr12?ie=UTF8&qid=1232579874&sr=8-2
you will need to get an external case for it. It may need two usb ports or may not, I'm not to sure. It may work at a slower peed with one and max speed with two. A good google search is an excellent way of finding answers.
Regards

Free bootable clone on portable drive

I Currently have a potable drive that has time machine backups on it. After installing my new SSD, I now have my old HDD that I woul like to use as a bootable clone for obvious reasons. I know CCC shirt pocket etc. And the better ones that well known. My question is; is there a good one that is 100% Free. I will onmy have this worst case total failure so don't want to spend anything right now. Any comments or suggestions are appreciated

GeoA wrote:
Thanks for everyones input. I do appreciate it. I will give it a try.
Following are two con links I found - although they are not real current:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=1059
http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=11152
I certainly understand it. The spindown occurs after five minutes of inactivity and can be a pain if you come back to your machine and it take a while to restart.
If you're just using it as a backup, there should be no problem. The problem is that it's not going to be very good if you intend on regularly using the bootable external volume.
I've created a bootable clone from WD MyBook drives. They haven't created a problem and are solid clones. However - I don't regularly use the bootable clones. I only check them briefly to make sure they work, then shut them down.

[Multiple] Bootable Clone Advice?

Hi All.
I would like to use the fourth slot in my machine to create a bootable clone of my 1 TB Snow Leopard with Windows 7 via Parallels drive (and if possible the 1 TB drive that contains Windows 7 via Boot Camp and a hack).
Q1. Can I also add a bootable clone of my 150 GB MacBookPro to the drive that this resides upon (the 2 TB)?
Q2. Can I also add a bootable clone of my 1 TB Windows 7 Boot Camp drive? I mean can I have two or three bootable clones on one drive? There is nothing on this drive by way of files and getting Windows 7 on it involved a technical hack that I had to hire someone to execute.
Q3. The third drive contains just a Windows XP install via Boot Camp (which is easy to replicate). Could I run a bootable clone of the other two drives to it and not buy the 2 TB drive for the fourth slot?
I am thinking of buying a 2 TB drive for this bay and if I can get some advice as to whether this will work I can move forward with my other backup routines.
Will this work and does it make sense?
Thanks.

The only reason to have a system from a MacBook is to copy/recover some files.
Not to be kept internal.
Best place for backups is off line, rotate backup sets.
Only reason for internal is because using TimeMachine hourly and which has a high tendency to drop loose, sleep the connection to external devices on USB.
Sparse Disk Images even of 300GB are fine for storing an image for later restore to (another) hard drive.
Paragon is great for Windows only disk to disk OS clones that can be booted, but otherwise, type of thing people buy extra drive sleds for weekly clone. Or run the "Clone OS" feature to an external drive and then keep it disconnected.
I think you want to make it harder and more complex than needed.
Windows XP runs well enough under Mac as a guest OS (Fusion or Parallels or even VirtualBox), or run VM in Windows (with Windows running native).
VM only, no native Windows, can be placed on any drive of your choosing.
Keep the system and data on separate drives.

Does bootable clone need its own partition?

I have an external with two partitions, one is solely for TM and one is for general storage. I am going to make a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner and house it in the general storage partition. What I am wondering is if other things can be stored in the storage partition in addition to the clone, or if it is best to have the the bootable clone by itself in one partition.
Haven't quite figured out the answer from the other posts.
Thanks.

I will definitely play around some more with CCC. After looking at the program again, I think I noticed how to do it without erasing the partition. Thanks for the tip.
I guess another question I have is how often should I update the clone. Obviously the source disc will change fairly often, so I imagine regular updates of the clone are wise. Is there a way to do it without it doing the whole process (i.e. can it just update the changes made since the last clone)...?
Thanks again.

Can a 10.5.8 bootable clone be used as a startup disk in 10.6.8

For the very experienced users and experts.
We have a mbp bootable clone with 10.5.8 and want to use this as a backup startup disk on a mba with 10.6.8. We understand that it is generally not possible to startup a bootable clone that has a different os than what you are currently running.
In the reverse, if we tried to use a mba bootable clone with 10.6.8 as a startup disk on a mbp with 10.5.8 would this work or also crash? Would this be possible or would be expect kernel panics due to missing sandy bridge drivers? We understand that we would get 3 beeps and the grey screen if we tried.
In system preferences it temptingly shows that the different os bootable clone as being useable as a startup disk so it gives the impression this is an option that works. However we understand that if we do indeed try to boot, we will freeze due to a bunch of permissions problems and such. We're hoping to avoid our computer from freezing mid-stream in a startup disk switch and create a whole bunch of other problems.
We have no real desire to upgrade the 10.5.8 mbp to 10.6.8. We did notice that an old iphoto library had to be upgraded for 10.6.8 when the 10.5.8 library was first opened in 10.6.8 and we understand this will now be unopenable in 10.5.8.
Many thanks for any responses to our questions. Cheers.

E27 wrote:
We have a mbp bootable clone with 10.5.8 and want to use this as a backup startup disk on a mba with 10.6.8. We understand that it is generally not possible to startup a bootable clone that has a different os than what you are currently running.
You should as long as the MP had booted off the 10.5.8 clone previously.
However I, and others also, found out that we can no longer boot off the 10.5 disks in a later 10.6+ Software Update, it might be the firmware was changed to disallow 10.5 from booting once on 10.6.+ sometime.
Apple might have done this because they don't want people using the 10.5 disk to repair their 10.6 altered drive.
Got the written kp hard boot screen and had to unplug the clone while frozen but there appears to be no permanent damage to any of the drives. We suspected this may happen.
There is your answer and no, no pernament damage was done, it's all a read operation and the machine/firmware couldn't use the 10.5.8 drivers.
You'll have to find a Mac that is of the same model and runs 10.5 to boot off that 10.5.8 clone.

Any recommendations on external hard drive for making bootable backup?

Hello,
I wish to make a bootable backup of my MBP before upgrading to Mavericks.
Are there any external hard drives that are better suited for making bootable backups? I use a WD for making Time Machine backups but I have read that WD is not ideal for making a bootable back up - is this correct...?
Thanks,
pinkguava

your WD will of course,..work fine as a boot clone
Quality 1TB drives are $50 per TB on 3.5" or $65 per TB on 2.5"
1TB for $68
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-Hard-Drive/dp/B005J7YA3W/ref=sr_1_ 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379452568&sr=8-1&keywords=1tb+toshiba
best for cost:
2.5" USB portable High quality BEST FOR THE COST, Toshiba "tiny giant" 2TB drive (have several of them, LOT of storage in a SMALL package) $100
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Connect-Portable-HDTC720XK3C1/dp/B00CGUMS48 /ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379182740&sr=1-4&keywords=2tb+toshiba
*This one is the BEST portable external HD available that money can buy:
HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
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How long do I need to keep my bootable clone?

I successfully upgraded my OS from Tiger to Snow Leopard almost a year ago. I had created a bootable clone as backup, which is stored on my external hard drive. I am running out of room on my external HD so I am wondering if it is OK to delete the bootable clone of my Tiger OS to make more space. I've run Snow Leopard for almost a year without any problems. I'd appreciate any advice. Thank you!

Any bootable clone needs to be kept until you have a more recent backup that you can rely on. Since it's been so long for the one you're talking about, I sure hope you've got a more recent backup by now...
jbresnic wrote:
Great I will do that. One questions - does my Time Machine backup count as a bootable clone? Thanks!
You can't boot a Time Machine clone, but you can easily reconstruct a bootable clone from it if you have a little more time. By inserting your OS X system disc and telling it to restore from Time Machine backup, it will reassemble one drive that is bootable from whichever Time Machine state you choose. I've done it, and it works, but I still maintain both a Time Machine backup and a bootable clone.

I need help transferring Bootcamp (Windows XP) from my old Macbook Pro to the new one. How do I make bootable clone of Bootcamp?

Hi I just got a new MacBook Pro I need help transferring Bootcamp (Windows XP) from my old Macbook Pro to my new Macbook Pro Mac OS X 10.7.4 2.6 Ghz Intel Core 17. How do I make bootable clone of Bootcamp?

you can't just move XP even if you took the hard drive and have Windows boot and function.
Apparently there are Windows tools to sanitize the OS and strip all the motherboard drivers and services.
Time to get a supported OS. Don't want to pay, then use 8 for the time until it goes on sale.
There are no drivers for even Vista on 2011 and later Macs.

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