- #REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC HOW TO#
- #REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC INSTALL#
- #REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC UPDATE#
- #REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC ARCHIVE#
- #REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC PORTABLE#
I have a Western Digital My Book and all of my data is backed up there. I recently installed Leopard from Tiger and want to use Time Machine.
#REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC HOW TO#
Like Becky, I am perplexed on how to save data from an external HD. I posted this somewhere else and I apologize for posting a duplicate. You would need however to change the backup option to Erase and Copy.īacking up data from My Book/Using Time Machine the source is the external and the target volume to be copied to is the internal. Maybe someone else has better ideas though.Ībout restoring from the SuperDuper! external, you boot from the external by holding down the Option key, launch SuperDuper! and make a reverse backup i.e. With the dropping price of external hard drives nowadays, it won't put you in the poor house. 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. You might need third-party software to create multi-file system partitions. Someone else should come in here and explain this to both of us. 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. 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.
#REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC INSTALL#
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. 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.
#REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC ARCHIVE#
What about restoring HD from the SuperDuper back up, how is that different from archive and reinstall?Īnd since my HD will be wiped very soon, I have to figure this out asap. Is having a "bootable" back up the only way to get your apps back w/preferences intact? Is that what bootable means? I would love to not have to do that b/c it was very fussy and took me days. iTunes I had to hand copy/paste the data back in. When I put them back on the new HD, I copied/pasted them back and them by hand resintalled all the user preferences for each of the necessary apps, like FF so my bookmarks were there. What's the drawback if it's not "bootable"? The way I did it the first time was copied/pasted my user home folder and my apps folder. So is there any software that will allow me to back up my files and put them in a sensibly named folder (with a date,etc)? And I use the 500g desktop one for my husbands PC back up.
#REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC PORTABLE#
For example, I carry my portable around for large files I need to share when I'm working or picking up a lot of picts from a clients. I bought them so I could back up my HD AND have room for other stuff. And the only thing I can use them for is my HD backup? What a waste of money. If I use SuperDuper or CCC, can I have anything else on the external device? Will it automatically erase and replace everything on there? My externals are an 80 g and 500 g drives. And I goin' nuts trying to figure this out, lol. I understand the merge, MHC, but actually I think my question about the erasing data has possibly not been answered yet, just mentioned in passing. Which is an extra pain b/c I have to do it twice ( I want to have 2 back ups) Right now I'm doing it one folder at a time and hand selecting what is new, then copy/paste on the external drive. I really hope that makes sense b/c this is making me crazy. How do I add my new files from the HD to a folder with the same name on the external drive without replacing the whole folder and losing my other doc's? MB Harddrive - Folder "clients" with files H,I,J,K,L,M,NĮxternal drive - Folder "clients" with files A,B,C,D,E,F,G So now this is what I have - I used letters to represent files: I was told to only reinstall what I needed to avoid potentially putting something back on that could have caused a problem. I copy and pasted my user folders and apps folder. Before that I backed up everything to two different external drives that I have. The problem I'm trying to figure out is this - A few months ago, my HD was replaced. I have to send my MB to Apple and they will wipe the HD.
#REFORMAT MY WD PASSPORT FOR MAC UPDATE#
I'm looking to use something like SuperDuper to update my external back ups. How to synchronize my HD to my external drives
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