choices for complete reinstall

[David Roth weiss]

[chris gorman] “I have a good working cc clone on 2 other hard drives. Should I try to bring that over to a clean erased drive and save the time and effort of step by step reinstall and update of everything?”

Chris,

If you’re saying that one of your clones is essentially a new clean installation of the OS and FCS, then yes you should absolutely use it to save time.

What you would do in that situation is boot to that clone, then clone it over to the erased system drive in your computer. Make sense?

David Roth Weiss
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[Chris Gorman]

Thanks, only problem is that it’s been so long I don’t remember if it was a clean install or clone. If it’s a clone, does that mean I can’t clone it back over?

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[David Roth weiss]

[chris gorman] “If it’s a clone, does that mean I can’t clone it back over? “

No, I was just suggesting that if your intention was to make an absolutely clean install then cloning that over to your system drive makes a perfect install.

You see, I have no idea why you’re doing this install, and I’m just not wanting you to clone any problems back to your computer.

If you know that your computer was operating well when that clone was made, then you might as well just clone it back to the system drive to save time.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Chris Gorman]

when i made the clone all was working good, much later unfixable problems started on my usual working drive. so i’ll try just cloning the good one over onto the erased hd. thanks.

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