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Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files

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In article <251220132151345287%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam
<nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <251220131622041185%otto@bogus.address.com>, Otto Pylot
> <otto@bogus.address.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks everyone. So far I have CCC 3.5.4. I'm looking at getting a WD
> > My Passport Slim as my backup drive but I understand that there are
> > some issues with CCC and WD drives as far as making a bootable backup.
> 
> some hard drives use a bridge chip that isn't bootable but those days
> are long gone. 
> 
> if you clone a bootable drive, it will almost always be bootable.
> sometimes the clone process isn't 100% complete and it won't be
> bootable, but that's not a drive issue. rerun the clone and it will be
> fine.
> 
> the only issue with western digital drives is the crappy software they
> come with (actually, not just western digital). do not install. do not
> even think about installing. use superduper or carbon copy cloner 
> instead.
> 
> > I have a query into CCC about using the My Passport Slim, Mavericks,
> > and bootability. I ran AppCleaner and my drive is cleaner than I
> > thought, as far as I can tell.
> 
> completely unnecessary.

Ok. So as long as I don't install any of the software that comes with
the WD My Passport Slim, reformat the drive as a GUID and use CCC to
clone my existing HD to it, I should be able to boot my mid-2011
MacBook Air (once I select the drive at startup) from the Passport Slim
via USB if I need to?

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Deleting Apps and Associated Files Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-24 09:19 -0800
  Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-12-24 17:52 +0000
    Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-24 10:18 -0800
      Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-12-24 12:26 -0800
      Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-12-24 22:04 +0000
        Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2013-12-25 21:13 +0000
          Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-25 16:22 -0800
            Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-25 21:51 -0500
              Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-26 10:39 -0800
                Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-26 14:31 -0500
                Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-26 12:13 -0800
                Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Otto Pylot <otto@bogus.address.com> - 2013-12-26 13:39 -0800
      Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-24 19:06 -0800
        Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-25 04:53 -0500
          Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-25 11:09 -0800
            Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-25 15:05 -0500
              Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-12-25 15:31 -0500
                Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-25 15:52 -0500
        Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2013-12-25 07:21 -0500
  Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-24 20:11 +0000
    Re: Deleting Apps and Associated Files nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-24 15:34 -0500

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