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 May 17 2008, 02:38 AM
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I have a (purchased) copy of Reason 3.0, which I use extensively, on my current computer, a G4 Powerbook. I've given some thought lately to backing up my hard drive. My question is this: to register my copy of Reason, I had to put in an authentication code that came with my copy of the software. If I were to back-up my HD by copying the files from the Reason folder onto a DVD, it seems to me that the backed-up copy would essentially be the unregistered version of Reason. What I want to know is this: is there any way I can back-up a registered copy of the program so that if my HD were to crash and I had to reinstall the program, my computer would already recognize it as a previously registered copy? I hope my question makes sense. Let me know If I can clarify anything. Thanks very much for your help. |
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May 17 2008, 07:44 PM
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My suggestion would be to get yourself a firewire external hard drive, format it as HFS+, then use either SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your startup disk to the external. If your startup disk crashes you can then have a bootable backup drive that you can use. When you have replaced the crashed drive on your Mac with a new drive, you can then clone the external back to the new hard drive and get back to using your Mac without re-installing everything, including licensed copies of programs.
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May 18 2008, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE(Buddyme2 @ May 17 2008, 08:44 PM)  My suggestion would be to get yourself a firewire external hard drive, format it as HFS+, then use either SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your startup disk to the external. If your startup disk crashes you can then have a bootable backup drive that you can use. When you have replaced the crashed drive on your Mac with a new drive, you can then clone the external back to the new hard drive and get back to using your Mac without re-installing everything, including licensed copies of programs. Thank you for your help. I will look into getting ahold of those programs. |
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May 23 2008, 05:16 PM
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Your welcome
 Just remember to keep the bootable backup current.
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