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New MacBooks-no firewire-still able to do BOOTABLE BACKUPS WITH CCC OR SUPER DUPER?

doug in albq

doug in albq

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New MacBooks-no firewire-still able to do BOOTABLE BACKUPS WITH CCC OR SUPER DUPER?

First, please do not tell me to use Time Machine. Answer my question instead...


I am under the impression that if one wants a BOOTABLE BACKUP on an external drive from a cloned drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, the drive had to be a firewire drive.

Anyone?
 
doug in albq said:
New MacBooks-no firewire-still able to do BOOTABLE BACKUPS WITH CCC OR SUPER DUPER?

I am under the impression that if one wants a BOOTABLE BACKUP on an external drive from a cloned drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, the drive had to be a firewire drive.

Anyone?
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As has been noted above Intel Macs boot fine with USB- what you are referencing in PPC based Macs which, with a couple of exceptions right at the end of the PPC life, could only boot from FireWire drives.
 
thanks for he replies, everybody.

I feel better about the new non-firewired MacBooks.

I do have an external FW HD, will I be able to use this with the new MacBook if I acquire a usb to firewire adapter?
 
doug in albq said:
thanks for he replies, everybody.

I feel better about the new non-firewired MacBooks.

I do have an external FW HD, will I be able to use this with the new MacBook if I acquire a usb to firewire adapter?
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There is no such thing as a USB to FireWire adapter.

The new MacBooks will only support USB external drives.
 
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