I am a Windows XP veteran and finally caved and bought the first MAC in our household for my daugher who is going off to college.
It is a MacBook, with 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard disk.
Got it all loaded up and she's off to school soon.
I've used Ghost and Acronis on XP PC's many times and both products allow you to image a boot disk (C
to a file on another disk (say D
. You can then typically boot from CD and restore the file from D: back to C: and carry on where you left off.
I've read some stuff on SuperDuper, CCC and Deja Vu.
So here are my questions.
1. What external drive should I buy? Should it be USB2 or Firewire? I've read that the Intel MacBook supports booting from an external USB2 drive but is Firewire better or safer (probably faster)?
2. Can I image the internal MacBook hard disk to a file on the external drive? Is it a complete image including OS etc...
3. If the internal drive fails or gets corrupted, how do I get the image back from the external drive onto the internal drive (new or existing)?