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Shadow Smurf

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Oct 10, 2007
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I did a bit of browsing and didn't find anything that I thought answered my question, so here it goes!

Basically, I can't make a Bootcamp Partition because I get the "Files cannot be moved" error. I would like to just buy iDefrag and be done with this whole mess, but I can't afford it. So, I was just going to go the long way and reformat my hard-drive and restore all my data; but I just wanna make sure my plan will work. Here's what I planned to do.
I was going to make a copy of my hard-drive using SuperDuper and put it on an External Hard-Drive. Then, I would use the Snow Leopard disc (I don't have the Leopard Discs) to erase the hard drive. I would then boot from my SuperDuper clone on the external HD and use it to restore my data. Will this work?
 
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