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Hi,
I am trying to get my head around the benefit of purchasing a dedicated hard drive for Clone purposes.
I now have 2 1.5T Seagate/Thunderbolt adapted drives.
Drive #1 is partitioned 1T/500GB; the 1T is being used for Time Machine to backup my 480 SSD that replaced my optical drive.
I can partition Drive #2 250GB/1.25T and every so often use Carbon Copy to make a copy of the Mac HD. There is no data stored on the 230GB MacHD; only OSX and apps etc.
I have a copy of 10.8 on a thumb drive; I have copies of all of the installed software on an external drive. What is the benefit of cloning my Mac HD?
Q: If the computer crashes and I reformat and install the 10.8 from the thumb drive, am I able to reinstall all of the apps from the Clone drive without going through an install process for each application? Even applications that required passwords or key numbers for their original installation?
Thanks from a new and so far happy Mac user.
I am trying to get my head around the benefit of purchasing a dedicated hard drive for Clone purposes.
I now have 2 1.5T Seagate/Thunderbolt adapted drives.
Drive #1 is partitioned 1T/500GB; the 1T is being used for Time Machine to backup my 480 SSD that replaced my optical drive.
I can partition Drive #2 250GB/1.25T and every so often use Carbon Copy to make a copy of the Mac HD. There is no data stored on the 230GB MacHD; only OSX and apps etc.
I have a copy of 10.8 on a thumb drive; I have copies of all of the installed software on an external drive. What is the benefit of cloning my Mac HD?
Q: If the computer crashes and I reformat and install the 10.8 from the thumb drive, am I able to reinstall all of the apps from the Clone drive without going through an install process for each application? Even applications that required passwords or key numbers for their original installation?
Thanks from a new and so far happy Mac user.