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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1386243" data-attributes="member: 46727">Yeah, the terminology is a bit confusing.&nbsp; Here's how to restore from CCC.&nbsp; First and foremost you should have made a clone of your internal hard drive to an external hard drive.&nbsp; As noted... CCC will render the external drive bootable provided you formatted it per their instructions.To restore from that external hard drive, attach it to your Mac either by USB or FW (whichever you used to make the clone).&nbsp; Now reboot the Mac holding down the option key.&nbsp; Select the external hard drive to boot from.&nbsp; Once the system boots correctly from the external hard drive, you can start CCC from the external hard drive and clone the contents of the external back to the internal drive.That's basically how to restore using CCC.&nbsp; It works in a similar way to Acronis True Image.&nbsp; My suggestion is to use both Time Machine and CCC for your backup regimen.&nbsp; It's what I do and it has saved me from disaster numerous times.&nbsp; Of course that means using two separate external hard drives as TM and CCC can not use the same drive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1386243, member: 46727"] Yeah, the terminology is a bit confusing. Here's how to restore from CCC. First and foremost you should have made a clone of your internal hard drive to an external hard drive. As noted... CCC will render the external drive bootable provided you formatted it per their instructions. To restore from that external hard drive, attach it to your Mac either by USB or FW (whichever you used to make the clone). Now reboot the Mac holding down the option key. Select the external hard drive to boot from. Once the system boots correctly from the external hard drive, you can start CCC from the external hard drive and clone the contents of the external back to the internal drive. That's basically how to restore using CCC. It works in a similar way to Acronis True Image. My suggestion is to use both Time Machine and CCC for your backup regimen. It's what I do and it has saved me from disaster numerous times. Of course that means using two separate external hard drives as TM and CCC can not use the same drive. [/QUOTE]

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