Cloning Drives on the Mac...

[Shutterman]

Yesterday I did a little trial getting ready for when I upgrade the Macbook and Imac drives in the near future....

I had a space 400 gig hard drive nocking around the office so I plugged in a disk caddy we used which is SATA and then plonked he drive in that and connected it to the macbook.

Downloaded the trial of Super Duper and copied the entire drive to the spare disk and made it bootable.

That whole painless process took about 45mins.

I think took out the 160 drive in the macbook and put in the 400 and fired the machine up to check it all worked.

Must say was a lot simpler than I thought it would be and has removed the edge for when I decided to do the open heart surgery on the iMac to throw in a 1 TB drive.

Just though I would share that...

Nigel

 

[Peter_Hartland]

That will work but if you use time machine instead you can migrate which is easier when you set up your new machine. I did this recently worked a treat

 

[Shutterman]

That will work but if you use time machine instead you can migrate which is easier when you set up your new machine. I did this recently worked a treat

Cheers for the tip Peter however I do not use time machine I manage back ups myself.

Cheers

Nigel

 

[robinb]

I use carbon copy cloner. (ccc)

its free and works very quickly.

i do 2 backups

1 via timemachine to 1 1TB drive

the other to 250gb drive via ccc

 

[ohood]

SuperDuper! and CCC are the only things worth considering, I prefer SuperDuper! due to it being the app I first used for such a purpose. Very handy. Currently using to back up two Macs onto one external FireWire 800 HDD.