I had an idea that it was something simple like that - thanks!
What would the point be of making am image then? A pal informed me that I could booting from the OS X DVD on start up and select the image like that for a restore.
So in summary then if I want to make the copy of my laptop's drive bootable I need to select the actual external drive as the source not "image" in the "to" pull-down option. Now if I want to say restore this copy how will I able to do so without having an image ?? My primary goal is to just have a copy of my laptop's hard drive not boot from firewire and use that copy (that was more of a test rather than what I'll be doing on a day to day basis) More questions ...... sorry for my confusion
Should I be making an image like I have been doing or just copy all the data to the external drive as described in your fix?
Regards
Richard