Clone X - hard-drive copying

[irishgrizzly]

Further to my experience with a failing hard-drive (ibook SMART STATUS: failing https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/200944/) I'm going to get it replaced with a new one, the upside being that I can double the size without too much extra cost.

My burning question is whether I can keep all my apps (I've already backup all my docs, music etc.). I've been told to use Clone X to copy everything on the drive to an external firewire drive. Will this let me keep the apps? Are they protected from this? Any advice greatly apprenticed.

 

[yellow]

User SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. Either one will allow you to clone the whole shebang to your FW drive.

 

[irishgrizzly]

Thanks for the fast reply!! How easy is it to get that data onto a new unformatted drive?

 

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Mondbogglingly easy. Assuming you can click software buttons.

It's the same process in reverese. What you clone onto the external, you simply clone back onto the new drive.