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Forum: General

10-31-2009, 07:24 AM

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Making a data drive bootable

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Posted By johnnf

Making a data drive bootable

Is it possible to take a drive with valuable data on it and ADD only the necessary files to make it bootable? Without making a separate bootable partition on the drive?

Forum: General

03-11-2008, 08:14 PM

Replies: 6

repair permissions takes so long.

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Posted By johnnf

I restarted after disk utility repaired...

I restarted after disk utility repaired permissions, now SD took less than a minute to get to "Copy Files".

all is good,
thanks for your help.

Forum: General

03-11-2008, 08:06 PM

Replies: 6

repair permissions takes so long.

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Posted By johnnf

I am using Leopard (the disc I am (G5 OSX 10.4)...

I am using Leopard (the disc I am (G5 OSX 10.4) copying is my backup Tiger disc). I just restarted and tried to repair permissions with Disk Utility, it took less than a minute. I will restart and...

Forum: General

03-11-2008, 07:55 PM

Replies: 6

repair permissions takes so long.

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Posted By johnnf

Forum: General

03-11-2008, 07:50 PM

Replies: 6

repair permissions takes so long.

Views: 10,993

Posted By johnnf

repair permissions takes so long.

I repaired the permissions on my HD with Apple's Disk utility, restarted my computer and started up SD. It is now repairing the permissions on HD prior to making a full backup. It has taken 2 hours...

Forum: General

03-06-2008, 08:36 PM

Replies: 5

SD doubles Time Machine size?

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Posted By johnnf

I guess I am not making my point. If using time...

I guess I am not making my point. If using time machine AND superduper takes up twice as much space as the original data, would it not be better to only use supersuper alone? I started backing up...

Forum: General

03-04-2008, 09:51 PM

Replies: 5

SD doubles Time Machine size?

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Posted By johnnf

My question really is, if Time machine can back...

My question really is, if Time machine can back up my 180G with 180G, why does it take SD another 180G to back it up and be bootable. Is this normal? I am asking not criticizing.

Forum: General

03-04-2008, 05:05 PM

Replies: 5

SD doubles Time Machine size?

Views: 7,060

Posted By johnnf

SD doubles Time Machine size?

I backed up my "Macintosh HD" with Time machine on an external 500G drive. It took 180G to do that. Then I set up SD to back up all files using Smart update, using that same drive and taking...

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