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So what are your suggestions
I am planning on getting a new hard drive for mt MBP. I am currently using Leopard.
What are my options for doing an exact clone from old HD to new HD, Then I can just swap the drives. Thanks for your advice. |
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CCC v3 is supposed to work, I am patiently waiting as a paying supporter of SuperDuper, but you asked what works right now. |
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Have you heard of anyone using CCC v3 successfully in a clone restore?
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Restoring by doing an erase and install, then migrating in from the clone is applicable to Superduper! or CCC, and has the advantage of ending up with a fresh new OS. If you have Photoshop, I recommend deactivating it before any cloning. |
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Disk Utility works perfectly.
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How do I use the Disk Utility? I didn't know it can do that.
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I am confused. Do you mean to reinstall my OS, then clone it? That would defeat the purpose...if I am understanding you correctly. |
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Alternatively, you can create a user at the end of the erase and install, and do the migration in afterwards using Migration Assistant, but you need to use a different (temporary) username from the one you will be importing. After you have imported your regular user, you can re login as your regular user and delete the temporary one. These methods are equally applicable for Superduper! or CCC. I have done it for Leopard and CCC and it worked well. |
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So what you do is, you launch Disk Utility, you click your source partition, you click on the "Restore" tab, add your source partition to the "Source:" field, your destination partition to the "Destination:" field, tick the Erase destination option, and click Restore. In my experience, works a treat. I set it to do its thing while I'm sleeping, as since it's erasing the thing first, it's time-consuming. Hope that helps! |
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Ok well I tried your suggestions. Here is the issue I ran into.
I went to Disk Utility, then clicked on the Mac HD drive in the left menu. When I click on restore it asks for the source.....then it brings up the hard drive top menu. I think it is looking for an actual diskimage. Isn't that what I am trying to create? It doesn't give me the option of just creating a whole drive clone or whole drive image. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Again |
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Ok I feel dumb now!
Thanks for the video, it was great!!!! |
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Well it is working now...but it says 7 hours!! holy shiz!!
I cannot wait for SD to get working again! |
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You're welcome, glad you got it sorted. Screencasts are so helpful to illustrate a point, aren't they? And yes, that's why I let it do its thing while I'm asleep. Ugh, I can't wait for SD! either. =)
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I did it slightly differently
Do you think my method will work or should I re-do it?
I booted my mac with the leopard DVD and ran the Disk Utility from there. Once in, I created an image of my entire drive (WINDOWSXP, Mac OS X) on an external drive. Once it was done, I ended up with 2 dmg files on the external drive. My assumption is that if I would ever loose my main drive, I could restore from these two images to a new blank drive. Am I correct in thinking this? The issue I had with the method described in previous posts here was that I was trying to backup my main drive and with the OS running, the Disk Utility says "Drive in use". Thanks for any tips. |
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