SURVEY OF OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Author: Holcombe
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Chapter 7, Problem 10MCQ
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The feature that is used to prepare external hard drive from another Mac and use it as a backup for new Mac is “Disk Utility”.
Hence, the correct answer is option “E”.
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