Backing up Hard Drive

[JW8725]

Thanks to the wise owls here I've come to understand my HD may fail pretty soon. Therefore I have bought me a nice LaCie External HD. Thing is I wont have it till wednesday as its out of stock. However I now need to know how to back up my current HD. I've spent a long time customising this mac to my specification I dont want to lose any settings.

Thank you.

 

[risc]

Check out http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html or http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

 

[whocares]

Three words: Carbon Copy Cloner. Nuff said

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Three words: Carbon Copy Cloner. Nuff said

Bummer is that it does not yet work under Tiger.

 

[idea_hamster]

While I've never used either, I have heard from a number of places that SuperDuper! is better than Carbon Copy Cloner.

Just thought I'd throw it out there. Info=good.

Edit: OOPS! risc beat me to it -- but with an unreadable url! All I saw was the "bombich" in the url and figured it was one big link to CCC!