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Geek Culture / How to make a Mac Restore CD?

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MSon
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 12:56
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I've just ordered a second hand iBook, its preinstalled with several programmes, but does not come with a restore disc, i want to make one just in case its ever needed so can anyone point me to a FREE Programme for mac's which will allow me to backup everythink, (includng the OS) to CD, Thanks

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soapyfish
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 16:28 Edited at: 15th Jul 2008 16:33
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Carbon Copy Cloner is free and enables you to do a complete copy of everything on the hard drive. I used to use it but now I've changed to SuperDuper because after the first copy, it only changes those files that are new or have been modified meaning backups take a lot less time but that's not free. It looks like the new version of Carbon has some of these features but I've already gone ahead and paid for SuperDuper.

So yeh, CCC is the way to go. I may even take another look myself.

SuperDuper is here if you're interested but Carbon does everything you want for free and is a well known app with mac users.

EDIT:: You wouldn't be able to fit a whole system backup on a cd though. I keep one on an external hard drive and one on my ipod, each one comes out at about 30gb.


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MSon
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 16:35
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Thanks, Thats just what I need

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Alucard94
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 16:48
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iBooks, wow, haven't seen one of those in a while.


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MSon
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Its for my Sisters birthday, she's only 14 so she will proberley reck it quick enouth, All she will use it for is Word, eMail and Messenger, only time she ever plays games is the odd webgame,(Flash, Ect) which should still work on a mac so it should be fine for her.

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Alucard94
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Quote: "Its for my Sisters birthday, she's only 14 so she will proberley reck it quick enouth, All she will use it for is Word, eMail and Messenger, only time she ever plays games is the odd webgame,(Flash, Ect) which should still work on a mac so it should be fine for her."

Yep, I had an iBook once a long time ago Good stuff.


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soapyfish
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 18:29
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I'm using an ibook right now, ibook g4 12-inch 1.33GHz with 1.5gb-o-RAM to be precise. I've used it pretty much every single day since I got it (2 years ago?) and it's still working fine.

I've even dropped it more times than I'd like to count and these things are tough. I'm hoping to upgrade to a macbook next January (I don't want to do it before then because any new products/updates will be announced at Macworld in January) but my little ibook doesn't look like it's going to give up any time soon.


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Alucard94
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Posted: 15th Jul 2008 18:39
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I'm actually on one of those September 2007 iMacs of whatever, it has served me good so far


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