Want to make a bootable disk, but...

Recently survived a minor nightmare of "losing" my hard drive. With disk warrior managed to get back in business. But I realized I really need a way to boot up from a backup. I'd prefer to use a thumb drive. I have Super Duper (supposedly bootable) on a drive, but when I hooked up that drive, my computer apparently couldn't figure out how to boot up from it, because it didn't.
So then I looked up how to create a bootable drive or dvd, etc. It said I needed the Lion Installer. I went to the app store in my dock and checked on purchases, because I certainly do have Lion installed. It showed NO purchases. Since I apparently must have the Lion installer in order to create a bootable backup, how can I get it without re-purchasing Lion?

To boot up from a clone, you need to go to system preferences, select startup disk containing the clone, and restart.
Also, you can hold the option key down when you restart and you should have the option to choose the startup disk of your choice. You should also have the option to select the Recovery Drive this way. Holding the command-r keys down at restart is the usual way to get to the recovery drive on your boot drive.
If you have a TM backup on another drive, it also has the OSX recovery drive that can be selected by holding option key down at restart.
If you bought the computer with Lion, then the App Store will not have the purchase. The recovery drive should be part of the hardware and should work by holding command-r keys at startup.
If you did purchase it from the Apple Store and it doesn't show in the list, sign into your Account Info and see if it's not hidden. If show, you can change it back to show in the purchases.

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I decided on an OWC Mercury Elite-AL external hard drive and now it's arrived I want to make a bootable clone of my HD. Has anyone who has an OWC Drive tried the software that comes with it and is it any good? It's called intech Speedtools.
I've heard a lot of people on here talk about Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. Which is the best (and easiest cos I'm pretty stupid) would you say or are there others I should consider? A while ago I remember reading CCC wasn't compatible with Tiger. Is this still a problem?
Any advice, I'd be grateful...

You can make a clone using Disk Utility's restore function. I haven't tried it in a while though because it kept making three invisible folder visible on the clone. That was supposedly fixed with a 10.4 update but it kept happening to me.
Carbon Copy Cloner isn't yet truly Tiger compatible is my understanding. It hasn't been updated since the 10.3 days. Many have reported that it's started working again if you install the 10.4.2 update. I myself have been making clones of my machine with it since then and haven't had any issues. Except for some reason, I have to select the destination disk first instead of the source, otherwise the app has crashed on me on occasion.
Super Duper has a lot of fans and got a great write-up in Macworld. It's shareware but looks very easy to use. If I wasn't in such a tight financial situation right now (my business has been a little light on customers lately), that's the one I'd buy. It's not expensive though so maybe I'm just really cheap.
I've also used Lacie Silverkeeper which was a touch difficult to understand and it also made the same three invisible folders visible that Disk Utility did. I haven't tried it or checked for updates in a while though.
I actually need to make a clone of my machine today so I'm going to try and see if Disk Utility works correctly.

I want to make a bootable usb drive for my macbook air,and my ystem is osx mountain lion 10.8.5. How can i download it again without repaying for it so i can make my bootable flashdrive? I'm pretty new at this computer stuff so i don't know how things

I want to make a bootable usb drive for my macbook air,and my system is osx mountain lion 10.8.5. How can i download it again without repaying for it so i can make my bootable flashdrive? I'm pretty new at this computer stuff so i don't know how things work.
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This is not difficult and you will not have to download from the app store.
your computer has what is called a recovery partition that came with it.
simply hold cmd+R while you boot up. let go a second after you hear the chime.
you will boot into the recovery partition.
Use disk utlity to format your usb drive and then exit Disk utlity and go to Reinstall Mountain Lion.
it will ask you which disk you want to install ML onto. Choose your new USB drive.
easy peasy

Trying to make a bootable disc but i keep getting this message as a failure notice. "Could not find any scan information. The source image needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored.", what can I do?

Trying to make a bootable disc but i keep getting this message as a failure notice. "Could not find any scan information. The source image needs to be imagescanned before it can be restored.", what can I do? Any help at all would be appreciated.

Have you tried scanning the source image? Disk Utility > Images menu > Scan Image for Restore…

How can I make a bootable disk for Mountain Lion?

How can I make a bootable disk for Mountain Lion?

Make Your Own Mountain/Lion Installer
1. After downloading Mountain/Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Mountain/Lion application. After Mountain/Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Mountain/Lion installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing.
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Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
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4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the content of the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
Double-click on the InstallESD.dmg file to mount it on your Desktop.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Drag the mounted disc icon from the Desktop into the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable installer that you can use without having to re-download Mountain/Lion.
Note: The term Mountain/Lion used above means Lion or Mountain Lion.

I have 2 hardisk,so i want to set two scratch disk but i doesnt work

i have 500g and another 160g hardisk.
such as i set up scratch disk in d: drive in 500g hardisk and f: driver in 160g hardisk
but i have found photoshop just use d: driver as scratch disk ,and never use f: driver.
why?

Okay! So you want to RAID your Scratch Disks! I've not tried that, and I don't know how Photoshop would handle a RAID Scratch Disk; I'm afraid someone smarter than me will have to visit the thread.
But even it were possible, both disks would have to be the the same size/capacity, speed, and cache; you can't RAID different sized disks like the ones you have, so you'd either have to have 2x 500GB, or 2x 160GB drives to start with, plus a dedicated RAID card to do the processing for you, you wouldn't want your CPU to be handling that load as well as everything else, the drives would also need to be internal as well, not an external RAID enclosure, where the I/O port becomes a bottleneck.
If you can, change the name of your question, "I have 2 hardisk, so I want to set two scratch disk but it doesn't work," to something like, "Need to RAID Photoshop Scratch Disks!" and hopefully someone who knows a LOT more about Photoshop and RAID than me will be able to give you an answer.
Also, please give as much information about your system as possible, what Operating System are you running, is it 32 or 64 Bit, Processor type and speed, installed RAM, Motherboard (some support RAID natively) etc.
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How can I make a bootable disk with some third party applications to use?

My Macbook's performance has slowed WAY down and I want to try running a couple of different tools on it to optimize it.
Thing is, some if not all of them require you to boot from a different disk, and since I got them online, I don't have bootable CDs for them.
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Could a mod please close this? Apologies to everyone for making a balls of this

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Hi LarryAJ, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Easiest way...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/clonex.html
Cheapest way...
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/07/21/creating-a-bootable-restore-dvd/

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