Just purchased super duper

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Just purchased super duper

i just purchased super duper and ran the smart update..wow it is a lot faster with the smart update.

I was just wondering how do you boot from super duper just take make sure everything is saved, nothing went wrong, etc...

do you just turn on your external and when the drive appears open it up and check from there?? or is there another way to do it??

thanks

imac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on May 11, 2008 11:41 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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May 12, 2008 12:44 AM in response to smurffy

Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the icon for the external drive then click on the arrow key (below the icon on Intel Macs and large right button on PPC Macs.)

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Answer 2

dechamp

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May 12, 2008 1:58 AM in response to smurffy

I just go to the System Prefs/Startup Disk and see if my Mac see's the other drive as a possible boot drive. If it doesn't then it will not boot from it. If the drive comes up in the list you can click on it and then restart your computer.

The same method will get you back to booting from the original drive.

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Answer 3

May 12, 2008 8:22 AM in response to smurffy

Hello smurffy:

I use (and recommend) SuperDuper. You can accomplish what you want automatically. Open SuperDuper. Go to options>general. +"On successful completion"+ select your clone on the external backup. SD will reboot from the clone. I generally open Safari to see if I am able to reach the web. Then I reboot - selecting the internal HD with OS X on it.

Barry

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Answer 4

axis360

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May 12, 2008 8:47 AM in response to smurffy

Two ways
Use the option key at start-up to pick bootable drive or go to system prefs and choose drive to boot from and restart.
As far as looking to see if everything is there.. you can compare disk or use a program to see if copies are present. I guess you can use a program like tidy up to compare and not use the erase feature. BUT not sure you would need to do anything other then boot and use to see if bootable drive works.
Hope that helps

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