SuperDuper

Probably need to burn the ISO file from a Mac. From Toast would be ideal. Otherwise, you could pull the HD out of the iMac, hook up the old HD and the new HD via FireWire to a more modern mac, then use a cloning utility to clone the old HD's contents to the new HD. If the computer doing the clone is PPC, use Carbon Copy Cloner. If it's an Intel, I like SuperDuper, but it's...

you could also use something like SuperDuper! to do a direct clone of the whole ipod across. she would have a duplicate of your ipod...

i think he means for something the updates regularly like SuperDuper. Note: If you are coming over to OS X stay FAR away from discontinued products. IMHO all that company's products do nothing but give headaches to OS X users. Look for the alternatives please.

SuperDuper

SuperDuper will work fine for this.

Thanks for all the info. Very usefull. Superduper looks good. ...

In case you do not like to spend $28, for SuperDuper, tryrdiff-backup . I guess it does not make the disk bootable, and there is no pretty GUI, but are they worth the $28 ? But yes, I feel also that DVD is not good for full backup. I tried that on my PC, but it was hard.

You would be better off doing this with an external Firewire drive and using SuperDuper to clone the entire drive, rather than DVD's. ...

So you are saying that the clean install that i did...didn't take? Or that the migration assistant migrated things over poorly? I guess i don't get how me, manually copying stuff over, as opposed to using the migration assistant, is going to change anything? I am still going to need to copy over the apps, app prefs, fonts, etc. I don't have all that stuff at hand to reinstall...

Follow these steps: 1. Launch the Program. 2. After Carbon copy Cloner (CCC) starts up, go the program's Preference file (by clicking on the "Carbon Copy Cloner words in the menu). 3. In the CCC's Preferences put a check mark in the box for "Make bootable", the save the Preferences. This will make you copy drive a drive to boot OS X from if needed. 4. Back in the main...