![]() Is there a way to use the push button on the Seagate HD? I assume it will initiate and instant backup but I'm kind of afraid of pushing it. Thought there was another command set to boot multiple drives? Holding C doesn't work and my cursor is locked using Option-Command-Shift-Delete. The new cloned drive showed up as a boot choice. Tested the ability to boot from the cloned volume on Seagate drive by holding OPTION down on startup. IIRC, the setting under "get info" on the boot drive "Ignore ownership on this volume" needs to be unchecked, to boot succesfully. So the computer is on when Super Duper backups run. Set the Super Duper schedule, then the corresponding Mac wake up in Energy Saver panel. ![]() Remembering to hold down SHIFT on startup so the Startup items didn't load (Safe Boot), the Mac's 20 GB internal drive was cloned using Super Duper to a 20 GB partition on the Seagate drive. Might as well have a bootable drive in good shape on hand. Used Tech Tools 4.0 to check out everything. The first thing I did was to optimize and rebuild the internal HD OSX volume with Disc Warrior 3.0.2. The plug and play of OWC was nice, but formating and partitioning of the Seagate drive was easy using disc utility. My other Hard drive is an OWC Elite Combo (Seagate 250 GB). Never heard of the Initio version of Firewire and possible boot volume problems. On my first ever attempt to create a boot clone using Super Duper, I created a sparse Image on the wrong drive? So, spent some time reading this forum's tips and rereading the Super duper manual. Goal was to create a bootable OS X back up clone on a new Seagate drive and back up iTunes Library from another FW Drive Using Panther 10.3.9 and a Sawtooth PPC 400. (Long Version, First experience with Super Duper and Drive manipulation) How would one use the push button on the Seagate HD?įor some reason holding OPTION is the only command to boot from an external FW CD or external FW drive. ![]() A clone boot works perfectly from Seagate 400GB (70002.8 16mb cache). ![]()
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