Hard drive clone

any suggestions on a linux alternative to hex workshop for cloning a hard drive to another by sectors? just a raw copy

k, well, i'm trying it now, i need to copy my xbox hard drive, thats why i need something that wil just copy the raw data cuz it won't recognize the filesystem obviously
hopefully this works, no good tools for this job, only one i have, makes an image, and i dont have 160gb free space anywhere for an image. tried hex workshop on a windows box last night, but it freezes the second i hit ok to start copying the drives, stupid
otherwise, any suggestions on a hex/disk editor? dd seems to be working so far, but if i had a program to check that they match up, would be nice
Last edited by ssl6 (2008-01-05 14:11:43)

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How do I make a bootable hard drive clone of my main disk in my mac pro?

Hi everyone,
How do I make a bootable hard drive clone of my main disk in my mac pro?
My main drive has bad sectors and I want to replace it.
Thanks in advance

Also your Mac's Disk Utility can make a bootable clone;
http://macs.about.com/od/backupsarchives/ss/diskbackup.htm
Consider though, if your internal HD is failing and defective, then any clone however made, may carry that defect.
Perhaps it would be better to copy your personal data, photos emails etc, to an external drive as well, just in case the clone did not work because of the failing hard drive.

Hard drive clone and replace

Hello all,
I've recently discovered that the hard drive on my EliteBook 8730w tends to overheat & crash when I save large amounts of data.The HP service contractors are totally willing to replace my HD, but only if I take it with a fresh installation. Since I usually spend about two days installing all my CAD software and simulation tools, this is not an option for me.
Back when I was still a student I remember cloning a hard drive for an old desk top upgrade, it wasn't that difficult, and I can't understand why HP won't do an image swop or cloning or ghosting as some people call it? Are they worried about piracy issues or are they just lazy and ill equiped? Either way they iether think I'm a thief or they just don't want to give me a professional service.
In recent years I've been spoilt with an IT deparment who whould do this image swopping for me every time I got an updated workstation. The company I'm working at now doesn't have its own IT department, so I'm stuck between a faulty drive and half service from HP.
My question is this, is there any way that I can get the HP support contractors to clone and swop my hard drive?
If not, - is there any place where I can download decent free cloning software so that yet again I can do this by myself?
Thank you for reading

Thank you for the recomendation. As soon as I read the name Acronis I remembered that this is what I used when I was a student. Now that I know what to look for its just a matter of going through my old boxes in storage. - The things you forget you have...
I'm just fortunate that I know about cloning (and have the software) or else I would have had to get some of our simulation and CAD software vendors out to come and reconfigure a new installation for optimal performance (not free and time consuming).
I think I'll give the guys at HP a call in any case. - The way I see it; if I was a tyre merchant I whould have decent hydrailic jacks to raise vehicles, and tire irons to loosen and tighten the nuts, they're just tools of the trade
Also if I go to a 5 star restaurant the waiter doesn't expect me to have a corkscrew in my pocket so that I can open up the bottle for him.
I mean HP is geared towards Professional service and its not as if I broke my brand new hard drive, so why should I buy the tools to fix it, - DIY style, - I don't think so, not if I paid $6000.00 for the machine plus took out an additional service waranty. I'll show them, I'll shake my fist and they'll feel my wrath... or maybe not.
Thanks again for the tip, now I'll be off to go build a bridge and get over it!

How to make a boot hard drive clone

I would like to make a clone of my 09 Mac Pro Quad 2.93, Snow Leopard boot hard drive. The idea is to install and boot from the clone in the event of a boot drive failure. Can this be done?

You can put the clone on any drive that you find suitable. If you use an internal drive it may be convenient to use backup software to update your clone so it remains a duplicate of your startup drive. This has the added benefit of acting as a backup. Suitable backup software might be:
Backup Software Recommendations
Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
SuperDuper!
Synk Pro
Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.

Swap Hard Drive Clones in Powerbooks, FCP/ect Requiring Activation

Hello,
I wasn't where to post this and assumed the reason for this issue must exist at the Unix/command line level.
This was the process....
My brother's 12" 1.5ghs powerbook hard drive failed.
I have a 15" 1.67 powerbook. I cloned my HD to an external HD then erased my disk, setup and new system and mailed the 'fresh laptop' to him (He's very computer illiterate).
He mailed me his laptop. I replaced his internal HD with the external HD i cloned from my laptop.
Now my 'system/install/applications' all boot on 'his' old 12" but when i attempt to load up FCS applications they ask me to register/enter serial #.
The HD is located INSIDE the powerbook, how does it know that i'm not using it on the 'old machine'?
I have all the serials, is it ok if I just activate them again? I plan to install them on my new MBP (when it arrives), is there a limit to the number of fresh installs one can do? I will wipe the 12" before installing.
Can i expect my 'transplanted system' to be stable or should I be doing a fresh install anyways? it's alot of work...
I heard if you typed some command into the 'command line' it would tell me the identification number associated with my logic board? Is that how all this works?
I'm not out to cheat the system, i just don't want to have to reinstall everything when i'm just going to get a MBP and have to do it again in a month.
Always interested to learn more,
Thank you,
Michael

Hi John,
   Yes, it should work to simply enter the serial numbers anew. I've had to do that when I bought a new machine. In that case, the only thing of which I'm aware that could cause a problem is if an application phones home. Micro$oft Office apps check the local neighborhood for other office apps and they compare registration numbers to see if you installed more instances of Office than the number of seats you bought. You can block port 2222 to prevent that but since the other machine is on a different local network, that shouldn't be a problem.
   Of course there is one other issue. The machine with the cloned drive may not return any serial number at all. That may cause problems with an app that identifies the machine that way, even if you enter serial numbers. However, Apple states that that isn't a consistant method for identifying an Apple computer so any app that used that should have some alternative.
   I had certainly purchased enough apps for it to be pain to reenter the serial numbers but it's doable. I think the ones I had the most trouble with were the Macromedia apps, which had to phone home initially in order to be used. I'm sorry but I don't know what FCS is.
Gary
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Hard~Drive clone a snap !, what to do w/ Deja Vu ?

_Hey gang,
. . .Many folks here, over the last few days, have been a huge help in guiding me thru the set-up of my LaCie external.
Now that THaT's gone so flawlessly, it's time to initiate some scheduling w/ Deja Vu =-= yet when i go to it's home in preference panes, all i'm twiddlin' with is the installer / some example scripts / and Tiger or Panther choices. . .it's like all ribbons & wrapping when i KNoW there's something in the box !
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Clone a hard drive

I am wanting to upgrade the hard drive in my mid 2009 13" Mac book pro. I was wondering how I can clone what's already on my hard drive to a new one with out having to send it away?

I too followed the instructions on https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4122 and had the same issue with the flashing ? folder.
Those instructions are missing a step - how to format your drive. I followed these instructions before doing the carbon copy and now my new drive is working:
Step 1: Format the Target Drive
Open Disk Utility. Select the backup drive and click the “Partition” tab. Set the “Volume Scheme” to “1 Partition.” Click “Options” and select “GUID Partition Table” (for Intel-based Macs) or “Apple Partition Map” (for PowerPCs). Give the drive a name (such as “SuperDuper! Backup”) and set the format to “Mac OS Extended (Journaled).” Apply the changes and confirm the actions.
from http://mac.appstorm.net/how-to/hardware-how-to/how-to-make-a-bootable-hard-drive -clone-with-superduper/

How do i repair my hard drive in single user mode when disk is full?

Hi there Apple Community!
I have an old Macbook Pro 17" with an upgraded 500GB harddrive and 4GB memory. I'm running Mac OSX Lion.
Was hoping you could help me out. THis is the situation:
Long story short I spilt wine on my macbook and the screen went a bit blobby. Switched it off for a few days, removed the battery etc. etc. Opened it up cleaned out as much of the wine as possible, but unfortunately some of it came in behind the LCD, so now the screen has a nice red stain. Obviously I'm not going to try to clean that out of the LCD.
My Macbook Pro still worked for a few days after that, but then my harddrive gave up. I booted in the Recovery HD menu, verified the drive and I got the error "Keys out of order - This disk needs to be repaired, click Repair Disk." I attempted to repair the disk but got the error "Keys out of order - Disk Full Error - The volume could not be repaired".
Unfortnately of this 500GB I only have about 7GB free on it, as I have a huge iPhoto and iTunes library. I did make a TIme Machine backup of my user directory, but not the system files. I don't really want to do a clean install because:
1) I'm paranoid that there's something I did not fully back up
2) I don't want to have to download the whole Mac OSX Lion again. I should have made a USB bootable backup when I had the chance. I don't have access to a broadband connection.
What I feel are my viable options, are as follows:
1) I did buy a replacement internal 500GB harddrive, so I can probably try to make an image of the hard drive to this new drive, but not sure how. I believe it's through the Disk Utility with the "New Image" option but not sure how to go from there.
2) Start up in Single User Mode and delete some unnecessary files and re-attempt to run the fschk -fy utility again (I tried this earlier and got the same Disk Full Error). - the problem with this is, I'm not familiar with the command line and have no clue how to delete files. I don't know my way around Unix.
3) I can also probably attempt to make a Ghost Image or Acronis Image of the failed drive to this new drive, but not sure if Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image will be able to read this HFS drive - I believe it's possible as it's a simple hard drive clone.
If you can guide me in the best option - probably there is a better solution than my proposed ones above, I appreciate any feedback and comments you might have!

hi Baltwo,
So I ended up copying my user folder to another harddrive. I managed to download the whole osx lion again, reinstalled, and recovered my home folder using this discussion:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1428
I have managed to get all my files back. My iTunes library works fine, but my iPhoto library when I open it, get the following error:
iPhoto cannot be opened because of a problem.
Here's the error log
Process:         iPhoto [1540]
Path:            /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Identifier:      com.apple.iPhoto
Version:         8.1.2 (8.1.2)
Build Info:      iPhotoProject-4240000~8
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [209]
Date/Time:       2012-09-19 19:56:45.528 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9
Sleep/Wake UUID: 7948ABE2-5294-4F87-B6E3-777095A2F2EE
Interval Since Last Report:          4780 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           9
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   9
Anonymous UUID:                      70117D38-03EA-4F9C-B810-50B743864B9E
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeSlideshow.framework/Versions/A/iLifeSlid eshow
Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
Reason: image not found
I've done an Apple Software Update but it didn't find an update for iPhoto.
One thing to note is, this library was originally created on iLife 08, upgraded to '09 and it stayed on that version. It hasn't een upgraded to iLife '11. It worked fine on my previous install of OSX Lion. How do I recover the library without upgrading to '11 ?

IF I install FCP on another internal hard drive but boot off the other drive?

Hi
There is something I don't understand
When you have 2 hard drives and one has the OS and you decide to clone that onto a second internal hard drive, what happens to the applications in that second drive? Do you have to reboot and re-start from that second hard drives "startup disk" to use those applications
The reason being is this. Right now I have the OS in one drive but I'd like to install a second hard drive, clone the OS but also intsall Final Cut Pro on that second drive, so everything that I do as far as editing is contained within that second drive
What I'm getting at is, can I still use Final Cut Pro Application in that second drive even though I started up the computer up from the first drives startup disk?
Or would it be better to buy a large drive, like a 2TB and just partition the Final Cut Pro within that drive?
Thank you!

Hi Jim
But wouldn't that be the case if you have an OS in each drive (FCP in the second drive)
Although that second drive would not be "running" per se, wouldn't FCP still work as a stand alone in that drive? Or no?
I'm talking about FCP 7
Thank you

How to restore files after a Hard Drive crash?

I just had my Hitachi 320 Gb Macbook HD crash (out of the blue started clicking when restarted, and the folder with question mark appeared).
Good news is that I have a duplicate of the entire HD (using Retrospect "duplicate" function) from about a week ago.
I have installed a new HD in my MacBook and I'd like to restore all my old files without losing any bookmarks, preferences, having to re set up email etc.
I thought I could just drop the whole Retrospect duplicate on to the HD but that didn't work, then I loaded the OS X disc (10.5.6) and tried getting everything on to the HD using Migration Assistant, but nothing showed up in the Migration Assistant box......?
I know all the data I have backed up is good, I'm just looking for the best way to avoid having to manually drag everything over in case I miss ssome things, or there are some preferences etc that are stored someplace and I miss them?
Also, does the user name have to be exactly the same for this to work (my name was mis spelled by one letter on the old HD, should I make my new user name match?
Thanks for any help!
Alan.

Boot from the external drive that contains the duplicate. Use Disk Utility to prep the new drive:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
When formatting is completed use the Restore option of DU to restore your clone to the new hard drive:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4.Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new drive.
Source means the clone drive.

Recovered hard drive restore

The main internal hard drive on my Mac Pro had a mechanical failure and needed to be recovered. I have no time machine backup of the drive. The data recovery service recovered everything on the drive, thankfully. I have purchased a new internal drive and have copied everything from the recovered drive over. The copy of recovered information, despite being 100% intact is not recognized as a possible boot disk.
Is there an efficient way to restore from a hard drive clone without using time machine? Or do I have to manually re-copy everything into a re-install leopard?

It is becoming clear to me that the reasons that your suggestions are not working is because I have actually lost some data. Applications, for example are not all entirely there. It should be no surprise, then that migration assistant and OS installs have not been helpful.
I am left with the manual transfer option, and now I have some specific questions about a manual transfer in order to ensure I do things safely.
1) What are the pieces that I need to transfer to bring the applications over safely? Applications folder and Library folder - or are there others?
2) Can I manually copy the user folder over and expect that it will be present in the startup?
3) Trying to copy over the library folder left me with a permissions error. How to I get around the permissions issue? How do I invoke master admin (root) authority?
Thanks for all of your helpful advice. I appreciate the effort and I am certain this will be the last step.
Lauren

Clone Hard Drive and boot to different Mac

First off, lemme give the details... I just got a lacie rugged 500gb hard drive, and i have a macbook pro and an imac (both intel). Now my imac is in a bit of a shambles because i never really went through the process of deleting all the preference files and packages for software i used, i just simply deleted the program itself... so my library (and other things like my itunes library) are somewhat out of order. However, my macbook pro started from scratch, and has everything, including itunes, in order. Now that i have my new external HD, i want to move any important files from the imac (my family guy collection :P), then make a bootable clone of my macbook pro's hard drive (using intego personal backup x5 i believe), erase the imac's hard drive, and restore from the backup of my laptop's hard drive. Basically, i want to make my imac a clone of my macbook pro, while physically deleting all the unimportant stuff off of it, rather than just booting from the external hd every single time. Any suggestions as to wiping the imac's hard drive and restoring from the X5 backup? P.S. When you erase the hard drive (i am assuming using disk utility??) it leaves the OS intact no? So that when you boot you should be able to press option or whatever to boot from the drive? I have already explained what im goin for, step by step would be greatly appreciated....

My bad, didnt realize this was a macbook (black and white) specific group, ill re-post

Im swithching from 2007 macbook pro 17" to 2011 macbook pro 17" . Can i clone the old hard drive and use OSX 10.5.8?

Can I install OSX 10.5.8 on a new macbook pro which comes with Lion? I would like to clone my old hard drive onto the new mac without lion causing compatibility issues????

trajan2050 wrote:
What if replace the new 2011 MBP drive with a brand new SSD with snow leopard pre installed?
Snow Leopard may be possible, depending on whether it was shipped from the factory with SL and had Lion installed in the supply chain, or if it shipped with Lion in the first place. However the SL version would have to be the one which was originally installed or later, which likely means 10.6.7 or.8. The retail 10.6.3 installer won't work, nor will an installation cloned from a different Mac unless it was from the exact same model.
Plenty of threads around concerning installing SL in place of Lion - do a search. Some have been successful.
Replacing the HD wouldn't be necessary, and won't make the OS version run the rest of the hardware.

Can I clone and transfer from the internal hard drive to an external hard drive ?

I got an intel duo iMac, the machine is very good even if it is almost 3 years old. But with the internal hard drive having 320 Gb I am running out of hard drive space. I have looked into changing the internal hard drive but that involves having to send the machine away to have that done. So I was wondering if I could just transfer all the Mac OS X and all the applications and settings within three user accounts to say a 2 TB external hard drive, and boot from that, using cloning software.
Alternatively, is there a way to transfer the iPhoto and iMovie libraries to an external hard drive. That would free up space. I do not know how, if that is possible, although I have managed that with iTunes. My iMac is running Snow Leopard.
Regards from John5801

John,
USB should be fine for general computer use, but media may add a little too much for the sustained rate that USB2 provides. In a previous career I did a lot of video editing. Firewire was much preferred in that task because of its stability at higher rates. I can see why the SuperDuper! people might suggest it.
When I cloned the wife's iMac, I had replaced the HDD on the MacBook Pro with a USB pocket drive that I've kept the original MacBook's installation mounted on. I've booted directly to that external drive, so you should be okay if you can make the clone across the USB. When I cloned the wife's machine I booted the MacBook Pro with a fresh HDD in Firewire target mode and connected it as an external Firewire 800 drive. Firewire 800 is much faster, but you'll need the cable and everything to be right.
Firewire has a better reputation among people running a lot of media from their drive. I would suggest that you try and get an external drive kit that can support both. I think your iMac supports both firewire 400 AND firewire 800 along with the 3 USB2 ports. I'm guessing based on my wife's 24" imac. The fastest would be the Firewire 800, but that standard is about to be pushed aside in both cases.
Hope that helped.

Can I have two identical PCs with clones of the same hard drive?

This all started when I had a problem with my first pc, a gateway laptop, would not wake up from sleep due to, supposedly, a driver problem. I didn't want to send it off for my free, under-warrantee, repair and be without a computer for however long that
would take. So I bought another one and took it to a local dealer to clone the hard drive of the first one to put on the new one.
This created a number of odd problems which eventually I figured out had something to do, it seemed, with Microsoft not allowing two identical machines to exist like that. I only plan to use one, the other one being exclusively for backup or in case something
happened to the first. But I think the problems occurred when I tried to switch back and forth, to do some texting.
Is there a way I can accomplish this?
Thanks.

Until Windows 7, it was possible to use two identical PCs with same clone. Provided, both the PCs must be legally licensed to use the Windows operating system (version as well as edition) and of same OEM, model and spec. This is possible because, the product
keys are common for all the PCs of same OEM build (if preinstalled, and the installed product key is different from the one mentioned in COA). This made OEM builders to distribute to more PCs than the license agreement, which is impossible for Microsoft to
find out. To solve this issue, Microsoft changed the licensing structure from Windows 8 - embedding the product key in BIOS. So, here, only the installation is provided and the product keys are not common for all the PCs even if they are of the same OEM build.
Therefore, cloning fails here. And naturally, as Team Zigzag and EC Ltd say, same product key can't be used for more than one PC.
As to restore the PC in case of an emergency, you can perform a backup of the existing installed software and user files, which can be restored later (File History in Windows 8). The following links may be helpful:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/what-happened-to-backup-restore
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/09/17/backup-amp-recovery-of-windows-8-windows8-itpro-tipoftheday.aspx#.UkC-hmLrbIU
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