SuperDuper

You could just buy something much cheaper at your local big box store. Just shop around and make sure the external you buy is large enough (for the price) and has the connection speed you want. FW8000 will be the fastest connection on a modern mac, FW400 has a better sustained output over USB2. Also check the brand you buy has the cables included, this will save you...

'Any ideas?' - ... Consider using 'SuperDuper' (freeware / shareware ) to copy the bootable external hard disk drives', hdd, installation onto the internal hdd. 01. Boot from the external hdd. 02. Download 'SuperDuper' (onto the external hdd). 03. Perform a 'Copy' from the external hdd onto the internal hdd. 04. From the 'using' popup menu, select 'Backup - all files'. 05....

To clone that drive, you probably want to use 'Super duper', since the cloning portion is free. Although.. it does sooo many other things, it's actually worth the price. Super Duper

itunes forder on my SuperDuper backup drive I restored all of the songs but not the playlists nor my podcasts etc. Have I done this the wrong way? ...

Ok. Thanks. I was not able to copy anything with SuperDuper because of the error. So, I copied the Home folder to the external. That will have all of her data, including the desktop, right? ...

Believe Diskwarior over Disk Utility. Diskwarrior is an excellent program. It looks like you need to get as much off your hard drive as you can. Maybe you already did that with SuperDuper. Then you need to take the machine to a repair facility and have the hard drive checked. Tell them what Diskwarrior reported. Hard drives do fail sometimes. The older the drive, the more...

She does repair the permissions quite often. But I will try repairing the disk next. Thanks. And there is 16% of the HD free (4.5GB out of 28GB). Btw, I just tried to backup the HD with SuperDuper! and it failed to copy all of the files. I have attached the log. If you have any suggestions, please...do tell.

I'd use SuperDuper.

I have a registered copy of SuperDuper, and have been using it for several years without any problems. I maintain cloned backups to firewire partitions daily, weekly and monthly, so at any given time I have 3 bootable backups of my system. My system normally sleeps, auto wakeup at 6:00AM, auto startup of SD which then mounts my firewire drive, does the cloning and then...

Thanks for the reply! How do you find it for synchronising after the first backup? Does it manage that without choking? Cheers, Stuart