When clone my snow leopard disk to make back up does it also clone the boocamp drivers

I'm trying to create a backup disk in case I lose mine and I was wondering if this backup will also save the bootcamp drivers for windows.
If not, I would apprectiate if someone tell how I could get it to work.
Thank You

Cloning software like Carbon Copy Cloner clone only what's in OS X.
If there are files in OS X they will be copied, whatever they are. If in the Trash, then no.
As you know, a clone is hold option bootable by Mac's. So this is great in case your hard drive dies or you need to upgrade to a larger one.
If you want to backup your Windows Bootcamp partition, then the free Winclone (runs in OS X) to another drive (not the cloned one) will do the trick.
http://download.cnet.com/Winclone/3000-2242_4-11089354.html

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My macbook won't read the snow leopard disk but my macbook pro does...why?

For better or worse I ran a clean install of the original MacBook OS for an early 2008. It had been running Lion over the years it had never been wiped and reinstalled. In any case, I successfully reinstalled 10.5.2 with the start up disks that came with the machine when we purchased it. (That showed me the drive was operational.) I then attempted to install Snow Leopard with the install disk we've kept and the drive rejected it; however the MacBook Pro's drive did not reject it. (That showed me the disk is operational as well.)
Is the problem as simple as having to update Leopard to the max before the drive will accept the Snow Leopard disk?

Zap the PRAM and Reset the SMC; then, try again. BTW, does the optical drive show up in Apple menu item->About this Mac->More info?

I can't open my snow leopard disk

When I put in my snow leopard disk it won't open. Any help

Double click the disc icon on the Desktop.
Click Finder in the menu then scroll down and click Preferences then select the General tab.
If it isn't checked.. select: Hard disks

Am running Tiger 10.4.11; just got Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (regular OS disk, not an upgrade); when I install Snow Leopard, will it wipe everything? overwrite Tiger? Do I need to make backups of applications and files to reinstall after Sno Lprd loads? thx!

Am running Tiger 10.4.11; just got Snow Leopard 10.6.3 (regular OS disk, not upgrade). When I install Snow Leopard, will it wipe everything? overwrite Tiger? Do I need to make backups of applications and files to reinstall after Snow Leopard Loads? thanks!

Hi Donald,
No it doesn't erase anything by default, it does what we used to call an Archive and Install feature, which can give you a new OS, yet preserve your files and settings if you have enough room on your HD...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
But it does it automatically unless you specifically erase the Disk, but will replace Tiger completely for the OS & several Apple Apps like Safari, Mail, etc, yet preserve your old settings for those!
If you think you may need Tiger to run any APPs that do not work in SL/10.6, then clone or backup first.
I would recomend 2 things before installing though...
Make sure you have enough RAM & HD space.
Snow Leopard/10.6.x Requirements...
General requirements
   * Mac computer with an Intel processor
    * 1GB of memory (I say 2GB at least)
    * 5GB of available disk space (I say 30GB at least)
If it's a core Duo & not a Core2Duo, then it'll only run in 32 bit mode.
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the new Mac OS X SL/10.6 Install Disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

A magnet fell on my macbook "late 2007 series black" and it stopped working. When i start my macbook up it sits on the white screen. i tried inserting the snow leopard disk to do a clean install but the disk ejects and all i see is the pointer.help please

A magnet fell on my macbook "late 2007 series black" and it stopped working. When i start my macbook up it sits on the white screen. i tried inserting the snow leopard disk to do a clean install but the disk ejects and all i see is the pointer. i even bought a new hard drive to do the clean install but the same thing happens. Please Help

Your problem is not Boot Camp, in fact, is your optical drive. Win XP requires indeed sp2, but also the internal drive, does not work from external optical drive.
For other possible tricks, please use the appropriate Boot Camp forum, not here. Mac OS X may be installed from both external and internal optical drive and/or internal/external partition of a disk, any disk. Windows is not so generous.

FYI: New version of Disk Warrior seems to hang when run with Snow Leopard

FYI: It seems that the new version of Disk Warrior hangs when run in Snow Leopard

I have been using DW 4.2 on 10.5.8 and the speed-up was the first thing I noted, too, so it isn't just SL.
Now if it would only 'come up for air' and respond to input to move window (so I can put it where I can see it if needed) I'd like that.
There is a 23 page review of Snow Leopard on Ars. On page 22:
People sometimes ask what, exactly, is wrong with HFS+.
Aside from its obvious lack of the features just listed, HFS+ is limited in many ways by its dated design, which is based on HFS, *a twenty-five year-old file system.*
To give just one example, the centrally located Catalog File, which must be updated for each change to the file system's structure, is a frequent and inevitable source of contention. Modern file systems usually spread their metadata around, both for robustness (multiple copies are often kept in separate locations on the disk) and to allow for better concurrency.
Practically speaking, think about those times when you run Disk Utility on an HFS+ volume and it finds (and hopefully repairs) a bunch of errors. *That's bad, okay?* +*That's something that should not happen*+ with a modern, thoroughly checksummed, always-consistent-on-disk file system unless there are hardware problems (and a ZFS storage pool can actually deal with that as well). And yet it happens all the time with HFS+ disks in Mac OS X when various bits of metadata to get corrupted or become out of date.
Apple gets by year after year, tacking new features onto HFS+ with duct tape and a prayer, but at a certain point there simply has to be a successor—whether it's ZFS, a home-grown Apple file system, or something else entirely. My fingers are crossed for Mac OS X 10.7.
If Disk Utility was reliable in mapping out weak sectors (it is not) and report/log errors. But it doesn't and I trust my data to other file systems when possible. We've come to expect and depend on 3rd party utilities and that Apple First Aid doesn't fix every possible error.
Scanning one drive for errors can take a long time. Maybe it needs to be done, maybe in the background. With 2TB drives it gets worse. Spending hours to scan for errors??? I've set TechTool Pro to concurrently scan anywhere from one to a dozen volumes at once.
An ounce of prevention, as they say, is worth a pound of cure.

When upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard disk just gets spit out.

I'm trying to upgrade my 2006 MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo with 2GB ram) from Tiger (10.4.11) to Snow Leopard. Every time I try to boot to the disk the computer just spits the disk back out. The optical drive has been replaced recently and I know it works properly. I also checked the snow leopard disk in a newer MacBook Pro and it brought up the install screen right away. Is there something wrong with my version of Tiger that it is not recognizing the Snow Leopard disk?

Hi, is this a grsy machine specific Disc, or the Retail version?
What is the 2z691-****-A number on it?

No response when installing snow leopard disk

I bought a "wiped" machine. I install the snow leopard disk I bought and hold down "c" key and all I get is the white screen with the grey apple logo. disk stops spinning and that is it. Help!!! it is a birthday gift and I am running out of time.

so I bought the snow leopard Mac OS X disk (per a chat with the online apple sales folks)
Then it's almost a certainty you have a retail disk, which is good.
I think the computer was just wiped improperly
No matter how badly, or incorrectly a hard drive was erased, there's nothing to stop the Mac from booting to a DVD, other than the following...
(or the age of the computer and install disk are incompatible).
That would be the most likely reason at this point. Without knowing exactly what Mac model you purchased, this is a guess, but Snow Leopard will not boot to any Mac with a PowerPC CPU. It requires Intel.
Somewhere on your Mac, there will be a visible serial number. Do not post it on these forums. Go to this site and enter it in the open text field. It will tell you exactly what model Mac you have, and its hardware configuration. Please note here what model Mac you have and CPU type.

Can I repair a Snow Leopard disk from a Tiger machine?

I had the hard drive go down on a MacPro with an Intel processor running OS 10.6.4. When I try to boot, it gets to the Apple screen and shuts down. Running the disk utility from the installation disk gives me the error:
Checking HFS Plus Volume
Invalid Extent Entry
Volume Check Failed
I pulled the drive and connected it with a USB adapter to a spare Mac G5 with a PowerPC processor running Tiger 10.4.11. I can read the disk on the G5 with Tiger. Disk utility on the G5 gives me the same error when trying to repair the disk.
Are there any utilities out there I can run on Tiger to repair the Snow Leopard disk? Free if possible?
Or a good OSX utility that will let me image the drive to another hard drive? This is a production machine in a printing environment and I need to get it back up and running as soon as possible.
Thx...
Carvelli

I could not repair the disk from the command line either. It gave me the same error messages. I did not try Carbon Copy Cloner...yet. I had an extra 250GB drive which I re-installed 10.6.4.
I can bring up the old drive on the USB adapter, so I am going to try the Mac Migration Assistant. Which I've never done before. Does anyone know if it bring over all the applications during the migration? Or will I have to re-install all the applications over again?
Carvelli

Snow Leopard Disk Requirement for BootCamp

Hi,
I'm installing Windows 7 (64-bit) on my Mac, and I was reading over the "Windows 7 FAQ's" on Apple's support site. I was a bit confused when I saw this: +"Windows 7 requires Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and the Boot Camp 3.1 Update. For complete system requirements information, see this article."+ I got my iMac in September of 2008, and I only received an OSX Leopard 10.5.2 install disk. However, I upgraded my iMac to Snow Leopard, when it came out the next year and I am running 10.6.4 right now. I have the Snow Leopard disk, that I bought from the Apple store for $29. So, is this the disk they talked about on their website, or should I use the 10.5 disk that came with my Mac?
Thank You So Much!!!
iMac Specs:
20" Screen
3 GB RAM
250GB Hardrive
Intel Core 2 Duo
Mac OSX 10.6.4

Hi,
the Snow Leopard DVD you have bought also contains the BootCamp 3.0 drivers needed for installing WIndows 7
After you have installed these drivers you can then download and install the 3.1 driver update for Windows 7 form here http://support.apple.com/downloads/#bootcamp
Make sure to get the correct 64-bit package.
And since it is a .exe file you have to install it while in Windows.
Regards
Stefan

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My Imac and MacbookPro is spitting the Snow Leopard disk. When I insert the disk, the machine makes some noise and then spits it out. Does anyone have any solution ?

Try starting up to the disk. No luck? Go to an Apple Store and get a replacement on the spot in all likelihood.
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QT Pro wont work when updating to Snow Leopard

Both Snow Leopard 10.6.2
On my iMac I have QT and and older version (PRO) and all is fine.
ON my laptop I have QT and and older version (PRO?) and Pro wont work - I Get Message
saying "Can't use this version this (you have QT player 7.0.4)
How do can I get my old pro version working? Can I DL it separately and then key in my regis numbers?
Frankly I prefer Pro over the new SNL version of QT
PS Dont have old instal disk with my laptop

Can't use this version this (you have QT player 7.0.4)
The only QT 7 version currently compatible with Snow Leopard is v7.6.3 which is found in the extras package on the Snow Leopard installation disc. (Assuming it was not already installed in your "Utilities" folder if QT 7 Pro was already active on your platform when you installed Snow Leopard.)

Clean MacBook HD with Snow Leopard Disk?

I recently purchased a new MacBook Pro and want to give my 2+ year old MacBook (first gen aluminum, shipped with Leopard and upgraded to Snow Leopard) to a friend.
Can I clean the MacBook hard drive with a retail Snow Leopard disk or must I use the original Leopard disk that came shipped with the MacBook?
I'm asking because I cannot seem to find the original disks but I do have the Snow Leopard package.
I want to get rid of all photos, email, documents, etc. Basically my user account. Will it be possible to do this from the Snow Leopard disk?
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Boot from the OS X Installer Disc One that came with the computer. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select the startup volume from the left side list then click on the Erase tab. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) then click on the Options button. Select the one pass Zero Data option and click on the OK button. Then click on the Erase button.
Note: You can skip the Zero Data option if you are not concerned about removing sensitive personal data from the hard drive. If you choose to skip this part of the process then it is possible for others to recover data from the hard drive. The Zero Data procedure will prevent others from getting access to your personal information.
This process will take 30 minutes to several hours depending upon the size of the hard drive. After formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Now complete the OS X installation. At the completion of the installation do not restart the computer. Instead just shut it off. The next user will be presented with the Setup Assistant when they turn on the computer just as it would if new out of the box.
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When I brought my MacBook, it came with a Snow Leopard disk,
I upgraded to Os x Lion not long ago.
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Or can my disk be only registed to one Mac?

She can't with your disk as it's specific to your Mac. She would need a retail copy (Black with X on it) to install SL.

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