SuperDuper

yes, that would work, as long as the drive you are hoping to clone will fit in the 30gb HFS+ Extended partition. use CCCloner or my preference, SuperDuper!, clone it across, making sure you tick the box 'make bootable' and you should be fine. windows will see both partitions, but will only be able to read the larger, FAT-32 partition. the other one, without MacDrive...

I have SuperDuper and use it to back up to an external FW drive – but what I need is to create a 'cloned' copy of a user account within the same iBook.

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Use SuperDuper to clone your User folder to where you want it. ...

SuperDuper is the best at cloning in OS X http://www.shirt-pocket.com/ jb.

Agrreed! SuperDuper works great paired with an external hard drive that matches or exceeds the size of your Mac's hard drive. ...

I would not buy a .Mac membership just to get Backup 3. If you wanted something that did incremental backups, SuperDuper is a better investment. You can clone your whole drive to another drive, and boot from it, if necessary. ...

Thank you all for your help. I really do appreciate it. I will investigate that SuperDuper program. It sounds like that could really be a life saver down the road. ...

The only disk utility I use part from Apple's own is DiskWarrior. It rebuilds the hard drive directory and fixes a lot of problems Disk Utility can't fix or doesn't even pick up. It has saved me from a HD reformat once which was worth every penny. Now I use SuperDuper to clone my HD once a week - more often if I make major changes. In case of a crash I can just install a new...

1. If you did a re-install only, you wiped the drive clean to write OS X over it. You should have used the Archive & Install. This would have preserved your Home folder (where you Music & Pictures were kept). 2. No. See number 1. 3. Drive Savers and next time learn to have an external backup. 4. SuperDuper