SuperDuper

Unpartition it and let TimeMachine handle it. It'll be both a backup for restoring single files and a backup for restoring the whole shebang should your internal drive die or become unbootable. You can simply start from the Leopard DVD and tell it to restore from the TimeMachine backup - including system files etc.

the other problems I would guess, the software update that apple rushed out on Saturday was to late to fix my system, I am typing this back on 10.4.10 on after a Superduper re install of 10.4.10, Leopard is scary. ...

I have not received my copy of Leopard yet, so want to be prepared. When you start it up, does TM automatically come up? Do you get to tell it where you want your backup to go? I have an external that is partitioned so that I can have a clone (SuperDuper) and on the other partition I have my photos and music. Can I specify which partition I want TM to use? Should I erase...

If I boot back up into Tiger from my Superduper cloned volume it all works correctly, so it's not the printer. ...

Same thing happened to me on my G5 iMac. I backed right up to the start of the Installer, fired up Disk Utility(which found the drive OK), then carried on with the Install. The installer then found the drive OK and then went ahead and did the install(I did an upgrade install as I have a (disconnected) SuperDuper clone on a Firewire drive)

Hi. 1)I'd recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to backup your current drive contents an 80 GB+ external partition and make the backup bootable. I figure you are backing up to a firewire drive? 2)After backing up, boot from the external drive to make sure you can, check that it's working like the old internal drive. 3)Shutdown, replace the old drive, reboot...

Thank goodness I made a SuperDuper clone right before I installed Leopard!! ...

First make a bootable backup of your existing computer onto an external HD using Superduper or Carbon Copy Cloner 3. ...

First make a bootable backup of your existing computer onto an external HD using Superduper or Carbon Copy Cloner 3. ...

This issue's been resolved, but I thought I would post my experience here in case anyone else has the same problem. Installing on PowerBook G4 12" running latest version of Tiger. When I ran the installer, everything proceeded as normal until it got to the screen where I was to choose the install location. At this point, nothing appeared. Under tiger, no problem could be...