makin a back up!

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waldramus


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Your Mac's Specs
mac mini, 1.25ghz 120gb hdd AP/BT combo drive and 23" cinema display and 20" imac, 250gb 2.16ghz 1gb
how do you make a backup of the hdd in a mac mini, as i have a 120gb hdd to put in place of the normal 40gb hdd?
thanks Gary
 
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bmcgonag


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Your Mac's Specs
15" MBP 2.0 GHz, Core Duo, 2 GB Ram
Using an external USB or Firewire device, or a second mac connected through firewire.

You can use the free software called Carbon Copy Cloner and setup to clone one drive to the other.

You will have to format the new drive to HFS+, and then clone it, but CCC may do all that for you in the Beta version. Just try it.

If you want to use a second mac connected via Firewire with the new HDD in it, you will have to look up info on how to start the two macs so that the second just acts as a secondary drive.

Best,

Brian
 

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