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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1387414" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>The lack of a boot disk is a good reason to create a clone. In essence, you use an appropriate cloning program to copy the contents of your hard drive to the external hard drive. Here's an article that I wrote a few years ago that might clear things up a bit <a href="http://www.atpm.com/8.10/cloning.shtml" target="_blank">ATPM 8.10 - How To: The Cloning of a Mac</a>. You must of course use newer versions of the software mentioned obviously but the general principles remain the same. </p><p></p><p>I just cloned my Lion system a few days ago using <a href="http://www.bombich.com/" target="_blank">Carbon Copy Cloner - Home</a>. I used it because I wasn't sure other software mentioned could properly clone the Lion Recovery partition. To answer your question I did it by copying from the internal (boot/source) drive to the external (destination) drive without ever using a CD/DVD.</p><p></p><p>As far as your second question is concerned it is possible to have your Time Machine drive also contain other files. If Time Machine starts running out of room it deletes some of its older backups but doesn't touch other files. </p><p></p><p>I have a few files on my Time Machine drive right now without any problems. Having said that many users choose to have Time machine files on a drive by themselves or to partition the drive so that the Time Machine files are separate from other files.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1387414, member: 131855"] The lack of a boot disk is a good reason to create a clone. In essence, you use an appropriate cloning program to copy the contents of your hard drive to the external hard drive. Here's an article that I wrote a few years ago that might clear things up a bit [url=http://www.atpm.com/8.10/cloning.shtml]ATPM 8.10 - How To: The Cloning of a Mac[/url]. You must of course use newer versions of the software mentioned obviously but the general principles remain the same. I just cloned my Lion system a few days ago using [url=http://www.bombich.com/]Carbon Copy Cloner - Home[/url]. I used it because I wasn't sure other software mentioned could properly clone the Lion Recovery partition. To answer your question I did it by copying from the internal (boot/source) drive to the external (destination) drive without ever using a CD/DVD. As far as your second question is concerned it is possible to have your Time Machine drive also contain other files. If Time Machine starts running out of room it deletes some of its older backups but doesn't touch other files. I have a few files on my Time Machine drive right now without any problems. Having said that many users choose to have Time machine files on a drive by themselves or to partition the drive so that the Time Machine files are separate from other files. [/QUOTE]
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