SuperDuper

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. ...

I have since upgraded to Leopard and decided that I would like to use Time Machine instead of SuperDuper backups for now. ...

Just to clarify, which drive have you resized? Only the 1st Partition of your external HD? I wasn't sure if in your original post you were referencing to an internal drive ... you would need to boot from your Install Disc and run Disc Utility before you could make any partition changes to your internal HD and this would also require you re-install the OS again ... If...

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.

'Dose anyone know if it safe or ok to try to install into my g3?' - Insert the 'DVD' disc (unless you really have the set of 'Tiger' CDs - which you would then insert 'Install Disc 1'), and reboot the G3 Mac with the 'option' key pressed. If the DVD is displayed within the list of boot-able volumes - there is a good chance that the installation is possible. 'Like if i...

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...

P.S. I have a complete SuperDuper backup of the drive before I upgraded. IF all else fails, is there a file somewhere in that backup where I can pull the list from? ...

Finally I bought myself an Ext HD and download SuperDuper after repeatedly seeing its name pop up in threads such as this, and used the Trial Version before finally registering it and having access to its full features. ...

You might want to read up on Resolving Kernel Panics to prepare yourself for the next kernel panic if it ever happens again. Cloning is a good way to backup your startup disk. I use Superduper!. Just make sure the external drive has sufficient amount of space to create a clone of the startup disk.

1. Install the new 60GB drive in the machine alongside the existing drive. 2. Download Carbon Copy Cloner (or SuperDuper!, whichever you prefer -- I like CCC). 3. Use CCC to "clone" the 6GB boot partition to the new drive (or new partition on the new drive). 4. Set the Startup Disk preference pane to boot from the newly installed, newly cloned hard drive. 5. Verify...