Superduper Mac

Yup, that's what I use for the XP partition. For the Mac partition I use SuperDuper. ...

has a clone of your OS created by SuperDuper or CCC etc. ...

I also have about 70GBs of additional movies on a portable drive and rewriteable DVDs. I'm going to upgrade to Leopard very soon, and I want to use both SuperDuper and Time Machine. I may switch computers at some point, but it would be to a MBP with a 120 or 160 GB HD, so the overall size of my system wouldn't change. ...

partition the drive to Mac OS Extended, it will still have an MBR partition scheme... and AFAIK, Macs cannot boot from this ... ...

I believe the original poster mentioned whether it's possible to go back to the previous OS on the Mac which was said to be 10.3.9. The original poster is looking to upgrade from that to Tiger using a friend's disc. ...

and reboot the G3 Mac with the 'option' key pressed. ...

I currently run Mac OS X 10.4.10 on my MacBook Pro. I'm thinking of getting SuperDuper to do scheduled backups of my files. I've read good reviews of the program on the web. ...

Hey Everyone, I can't shell out the $100 for .mac this year, but I want to make sure I have my bases covered before I cancel. As I understand it, everything will disappear: my files on my iDisk, my mail account, my web site, etc. This actually isn't too big of a deal to me. One of the reasons I'm canceling is because I have used Google products much more than .mac in the...

Fryke: The guy at SuperDuper really helped me out--way beyond the call of duty, which is more than I can say about many of the big software vendors out there. Maybe I am not as mac-sophisticated as you but I appreciate good support when I can get it. It did everything I needed for free, and I was very happy with the outcome so I bought the $20 license If I am in the wrong...

Well the best you could do is have something like Alsoft's Disk Warrior and try to repair the disk. Disk Warrior IMHO is the best disk application on OS X, period! Now on the OLD iBook (it IS old) the drive might have failed. On older machine it is not if a drive will fail, it is WHEN it will fail! So did you have backup or use Time Machine (10.5 only)? I bet you didn't...