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<blockquote data-quote="MacHeadCase" data-source="post: 566349"><p>If the copy is not bootable, should your internal hard drive ever encounter problems and will not let you start up from it, you cannot start up from your copy either. You would need to pop in your restore CD/DVD or your OS install DVD and boot from the optical drive, navigate to your external HD and try to run the apps from there and it could be awkward. BTW, this is how Time Machine works, if I'm not mistaken: you cannot boot from the external hard drive that has your Time Machine backups.</p><p></p><p>If you use an external hard drive for SuperDuper! you could partition the external and have one partition for the Windoze/Mac stuff but what I am not sure of is if you can have a multi-file system fro the drive example one side in HFS+ and another partition in say FAT32. Someone else should come in here and explain this to both of us. You might need third-party software to create multi-file system partitions.</p><p></p><p>The ideal and easiest way is to get another external hard drive: one is for SuperDUper! backups, the other is to share with the Windoze machine. With the dropping price of external hard drives nowadays, it won't put you in the poor house.</p><p></p><p>Maybe someone else has better ideas though.</p><p></p><p>About restoring from the SuperDuper! external, you boot from the external by holding down the <em>Option</em> key, launch SuperDuper! and make a reverse backup i.e. the <em><strong>source</strong></em> is the external and the <em><strong>target</strong></em> volume to be copied to is the internal. You would need however to change the backup option to <em>Erase and Copy</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacHeadCase, post: 566349"] If the copy is not bootable, should your internal hard drive ever encounter problems and will not let you start up from it, you cannot start up from your copy either. You would need to pop in your restore CD/DVD or your OS install DVD and boot from the optical drive, navigate to your external HD and try to run the apps from there and it could be awkward. BTW, this is how Time Machine works, if I'm not mistaken: you cannot boot from the external hard drive that has your Time Machine backups. If you use an external hard drive for SuperDuper! you could partition the external and have one partition for the Windoze/Mac stuff but what I am not sure of is if you can have a multi-file system fro the drive example one side in HFS+ and another partition in say FAT32. Someone else should come in here and explain this to both of us. You might need third-party software to create multi-file system partitions. The ideal and easiest way is to get another external hard drive: one is for SuperDUper! backups, the other is to share with the Windoze machine. With the dropping price of external hard drives nowadays, it won't put you in the poor house. Maybe someone else has better ideas though. About restoring from the SuperDuper! external, you boot from the external by holding down the [I]Option[/I] key, launch SuperDuper! and make a reverse backup i.e. the [I][B]source[/B][/I] is the external and the [I][B]target[/B][/I] volume to be copied to is the internal. You would need however to change the backup option to [I]Erase and Copy[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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