Re: Drive Image--OT

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:58 PM, J R FOX wrote:
> DFSEE supports a lot of USB, but not firewire. I
> haven't heard of *any* cloner program that supports
> firewire. BUT, even if one did, there is probably
> another problem, in going the internal --> external
> route. A friend of mine used DFSEE to do this, over a
> USB connection. He tells me it took about 8 hours !
> (I don't know the size of the HDDs involved.) So, for
> jobs like this, USB may not be nearly as fast as we
> had been led to believe.
Since this is an OT topic, fwiw, i bought my wife a 7200RPM 60 Gb
harddrive (one of her Christmas gifts, am i romantic?) to replace
her 30Gb 4200RPM harddrive that had all of her applications and data.
I put the target drive in a laptop hard drive enclosure, connected it
via firewire, and using Superduper copied the entire source drive.
The software then made the target drive the bootable drive. I turned
off her laptop and replaced the source with the new target drive.
Everything has worked fine and was all complete in just over 30 minutes.
Granted this is a six year old Apple Powerbook, and I (nor my wife)
knew all the specific's of how her hard drive was partioned (other
that the entire drive was partioned for use), she is up and working
and has a 30GB 	drive to use as a backup via hardrive.

Sorry, Mac OT observation, fwiw,

Russ