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[jljennings]

OK, after several attempts, and I know I'm not to bright but I expect things to work as advertised, I got through the installation instructions.

Again, I have a Maxtor III composed of two partitions. One for a bootable back disk and one scratch disk. I think I've made a bootable backup. The Mac system preferences startup disk manager recognized both the Mac HD and my external boot disk. I also think I've set up the Maxtor button to make bootable backups.

I've been beating my head against the Restrospect software for the last two days and now the SuperDuper is doing the same thing. Specifically, when I do an "option" restart of the Mac, only the Mac HD is recognized, there is no sign of the Maxtor boot disk. So what's going on? Long ago I had called the Mac people and they had me edit a script by holding down like four keys to open something like a DOS window. I types something that had "all" in the command. I assumed that command would force the Mac to recognize all external devices. But nothing has worked. I just can't believe that my Mac is somehow unique.

Any ideas?