Originally Posted By: pbGuy
Regarding external drives, when the objective is to use for bootable clones, these drives must be FireWire (FW) drives. ...


I stand corrected on my prior statement, in reference to Intel based Macs - which can use either USB or FW for bootable clones. ...Apologies for causing confusion.

PowerPC (G4) based Macs require FW drives, however, for creating a bootable clone.

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