Hey, I used Super duper to upgrade. You don’t have to pay for the feature you’ll be using in the app and its super accessible to use. First, download super duper. You can run a search for it on Google. Second, after you install and launch Super Duper, you’ll see that the application contains two drop down menus. In the first drop down menu, you’ll want to select your current drive, (E.g Mac hd). In the second drop down menu, you’ll want to choose the last option which says something along the lines of "disk image". A dialog box should appear which will prompt you to find your mac os extended journaled formatted hard drive to store the image on to. Be sure the destination drive is formatted to mac OS Extended journaled. I believe you can use disk utility to format your external hard drive. After everything is set, you can check the description of the task you’re about to run by pressing VO + arrow keys. It should say that you’ll be creating an image of Mac HD onto the destination drive. Press the copy button and all should work. It is important that you choose the create disk image option in the second pop up menu, (which you can then find your destination drive through the dialog box which comes afterwards.)
After the image is safely created and copied on to your external hard drive, you can then search the app store for os 10.9 and install it on to your computer. If anything should go wrong with the new OS, you can reinstall your computer to look like it did when you created the disk image. Hope that helps. Ibraheem On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> wrote: > How would I do that with SuperDuper? Do I have to pay for the app? > On 11 Nov 2013, at 15:43, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think that the best way to accomplish a test drive of Mavericks is to >> first image your existing OS, using SuperDuper or carbon copy cloner, and >> then just upgrade to Mavericks through the app store. If you're not happy >> with it, you should be able to just copy the image of the previous OS back >> onto the Mac. >> That way there's no messing around with partitioning. If my reasoning is >> wrong, I hope someone will speak and let me know (before I go ahead and do >> it myself) >> >> On Nov 11, 2013, at 7:01 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, subject pretty much explains it all. I would like to know how to do >>> this from a Voiceover perspective. >>> My main concern for doing this though is that does it actually wipe your >>> internal hard drive once you've added the 1 partition in the pop up button >>> box? >>> Wanting to give Mavericks a test drive. Also if I like/hate the experience >>> of the new OS, how can I recover the disc space in order that I'll have the >>> avadible space of my 500GB hard drive again? As said before also from a >>> Voiceover point of view. >>> >>> I fully understand that this may not be a light-hearted thing to attempt >>> but as long as clear instructions are given then I may attempt the >>> experience. >>> >>> Thanks all and looking forward to those posts who know what they are >>> talking about on this delicate operation. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
