How do i make a bootable cloned hard drive

How do i make a bootable hdd ie cloned hdd just incase my macbook pro hdd every crashed

Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

Similar Messages

How can I make a Bootable OSX USB Drive

Looking for instructions on how to make a bootable OSX USB thumb drive?
My mid 2009 MacBook Pro has a bad Hard Drive and I am going to start over with a new one. I keep getting an error message attempting to install on the current hard drive. In order to make it easier I would like to make a bootable USB Thumb drive get a new hard drive and start from scratch.
ALSO - any hard drive recomendations would be greatly apprecieated. (vendor and MFG)
Thanks

Arthur-
thanks, I never use WD. I used to work in computers and the WD drive was the most failed drive we would see. I only ask because I guess at some point I did not build the current drive correctly causing damage. I am starting to think about a new computer due to the optical drive now being dead as well.
My only concern about a SSD is the transfer rate. From what I have looked at the current config for a mid 2009 MBP will not get the max speed out of a SSD due to the wire rating in the machine. Any thoughts on a normal disk HD?
Thanks

How do I make room on the hard drive??

I need to make room on my older MacBook laptop (2 GHZ Intel Core Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz). I am new to Mac and can't figure out how to manage the space. I am using 5x the amount I think I should be. What is using the space on my harddrive? Does any know any easy way to make room on the hard drive? Are there programs I can delete?
Thanks.

You might look at this FAQ: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

How do I make a server's Hard drive stay in the devices panel of the finder

I have a server that shows up in the shared tab of the finder. When I log into that shared computer, it shows a hard drive called groups that pops up as in icon on the desktop when I open it. It doesn't show up in the devices tab so I drag it on their. My problem is, I have to drag it on every time I restart my computer. Is there a way to make it permanently their?
Thanks

if you drag it to the toolbar. it will stay there even on restarts.
you can also drag a folder on the server hard drive (but not the drive itself) to Places in the sidebar and it will stay there too. there is no way to have it stay in the devices section on restarts.

How do I make an NTFS external hard drive compatible with my Macbook Air?

I have bought an external hard drive with NTFS. How do I transfer files to this drive from my Macbook Air, and write files on it? I also would like to use the hard drive for a pc as well so any suggested solutions that allows me to use across my mac and a pc would be greatly appreciated.

marshalltimd wrote:
Never seen the term exFAT in a post previously - is that an enhanced version of FAT32?
Yes it is. Here's an abstract from this Microsoft KB page
The exFAT file system is the successor to FAT32 in the FAT family of file systems. The exFAT file system is a new file system format that addresses the growing needs of mobile personal storage on different operating systems. The exFAT file system handles large files, such as those that are used for media storage, and it enables seamless interoperability between desktop computers and devices, such as portable media devices. Because of this functionality, you can easily copy files between the desktop and external devices or between the desktop and other operating systems.

How to boot off of my external hard drive?

How can I achieve this?

What kind of drive do you have? (3.5" or 2.5" FireWire, USB 2.0 or something else?) Have you formatted the drive with the GUID partitioning scheme? (Using the Disk Utility.) Have you installed Mac OS X to the hard drive? Those are the two steps you'll need to follow to make a bootable external hard drive.
-Doug

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.

How can I make a bootable disk for Mountain Lion?

How can I make a bootable disk for Mountain Lion?

Make Your Own Mountain/Lion Installer
1. After downloading Mountain/Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Mountain/Lion application. After Mountain/Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Mountain/Lion installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing.
2. Get a USB flash drive that is at least 8 GBs. Prep this flash drive as follows:
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
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 then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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.
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.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash drive size.
3. Locate the saved Mountain/Lion installer in your Downloads folder. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the installer and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Double-click on the Contents folder to open it. Double-click on the SharedSupport folder. In this folder you will see a disc image named InstallESD.dmg.
4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the content of the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
Double-click on the InstallESD.dmg file to mount it on your Desktop.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Drag the mounted disc icon from the Desktop into the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable installer that you can use without having to re-download Mountain/Lion.
Note: The term Mountain/Lion used above means Lion or Mountain Lion.

HT203909 Why can't you provide specific instructions here about how to make the USB drive bootable? The article referenced is not dedicated to Bootcamp--too long, too many options. How do you make it bootable?

Why can't you provide specific instructions here in HT203909 (Boot Camp: Creating an ISO image from a Windows installation DVD) about how to make the USB drive bootable? The article referenced for partitioning the drive is not dedicated to Bootcamp--too long, too many options. How do you make it bootable?

If your BC Assistant shows the option to create a USB Installer, it automatically is marked as bootable. There is no need to have manual intervention to make a bootable USB. Once the process is manually modified, it is supported by the person modifying it.
You have two or three options (depending on your Mac Model).
1. Create USB... - Use a USB2 flash drive, which is erased and formatted. If your Mac supports ISOs then BCA will prompt for the Media. Any Mac which does not have a built-in Optical drive will support an ISO. There are specific Mac models which support both, DVD and USB based installation.
2. Download Software from Apple servers...
3. Install Windows...
Are any additional instructions really necessary?

How do I make a bootable cd from the windows .iso file

I am trying to install windows xp on my iMac. My univeristy gives me free copy of XP but I have to download the .iso file. I tried burning the .iso file to a cd but bootcamp says it can not recognize the cd for installation. How can a make a bootable copy of the windows xp .iso file so that I can install it on my iMac.

You used Disk Utility I take it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-9660
http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/
This is for creating a custom Vista SP1 EFI-enabled DVD:
http://www.jowie.com/post/2008/02/Select-CD-ROM-Boot-Type--prompt-while-trying-t o-boot-from-Vista-x64-DVD-burnt-from-iso-file.aspx

How can I make a bootable Mavericks SD Card or DVD?

How can I make a bootable Mavericks SD Card or DVD?

Download the Mavericks install app, then run Apple's built-in Terminal command (included with the install app), where Untitled is the name of your USB stick:
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
More details in http://osxdaily.com/2013/06/12/make-boot-os-x-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

My Retina Mac came with 10.8, how can I make a bootable copy of 10.8?

My Retina Mac came with 10.8, how can I make a bootable copy of 10.8?

Do Internet recovery, download the installer, choose an external HD to install it to, when the comp restarts, disconnect the External HD before it turns back on.
Extract the Install.dmg and put it on your desktop, then use disk utility to install that onto your external HD.

How do i reinstall yosemite on new hard drive without a disk?

I bought a used imac late 2009 as mine died and needed far to much to be repaired. It came with yosemite installed. I used carbon copy cloner were I had an external hard drive with a recent backup image. I connected a usb external device and boot from my external backup. I copied the image I had back to the new iMac internal HD. I thought it would have been as simple as that. NOOOOOOO! that failed and now I am completely messed up. Purchased software says my serials are no longer good. I can't do any work. Office 2011 and outlook won't even read my email. Adobe software hangs and won't allow the OnOne software I purchased work. I bought the latest version of OnOne 9 Suite and it fails to install stating to contact the vendor. (of course no one is there to help). I have several photo sessions I need to edit. I am under pressure. I tried for hours to work around and try to resolve my issue. I safe booted and used time machine. It was chugging all night for 9 hours and in the end it said an error occurred and failed to restore my computer. I have now had 1.5 hours of sleep and truly frustrated and had enough. I dug out my PC laptop and posting to this forum. I gather at this point just say **** it and format and start over. Documents are saved and photos are on a raid device. SO I am not concerned about my work. I am concerned about getting the reinstalled software reinstalled because many of them when I tried to launch stated it was not compatible with Yosemite and to download a compatible version. Of course the vendors want money to get the latest greatest. I don't need the latest greatest because the version I had did exactly what I needed and I do not need anything more. My email in outlook is a concern. My livelihood, meaning how I make a living, is primarily based on email communications. My business purchases are in email. My billing and receipts and sales are in email. The last time I had a catastrophic failure with outlook and hours and hours of trying to recover from backups, I ended up asking my clients to forward me their copies and just started over with Outlook. iMail can't handle the 10,000 emails I deal with weekly and the deluge of email accounts I manage. I could not find any other email client that offers what I need... Calendar, appointment collaboration, organization etc etc. All this does not change the fact I am still stuck. I was told in a pop up this iMac is not registered on my Apple ID account. I can't even find where my broken one is registered, remove it and add in this used one. From what I can read, the solution is to bite the ******* bullet, again, and format and start over. Well, with the downloads of MAC OS X I don't have a hard copy on disc to boot from and just do that. With all the issues with Yosemite, I am not even 100% positive I want to go there and just be happy with Maverick and ignore the lies from Apple just how much better Yosemite is as it is not and just a license to print money with all the cash I need to spend to get my purchased software up to speed. Ok, I have ranted enough. I still believe that MAC is better than WINDOWS. Considering to buy a WINDOWS PC had crossed my mind and when it crossed I pushed it in from of the MAC truck and lost that consideration. I am a Microsoft engineer and know all the reasons why not to buy Windows. I need help from the community. I can't afford to pay a Apple support guy that says just reboot and hold down this key and when it fails to help he says he will have someone call be back that is smarter than he is. I am out the cash and never get that call. Your suggestions, recommendations and "How To's" are very much appreciated. Thank you for reading my query and my rant. -Brian
<Edited by Host>

Thank you to all that helped. I did get the CD from Apple Care and managed to rebuild from scratch. In conclusion, there should be a better way to help recover from a complete disaster. I lost the original computer and hard drive. I had a Clone Copy of the hard drive I regularly updated. I used Time Machine. I thought I had all my bases covered in the event of a disaster. Even the cloned hard drive is stored is a fire safe guaranteed not to exceed room temperature even if the safe was in a fire 2700 degrees for over 25 minutes. (Enough time to have a fire department put water on the fire) The safe cost me a lot of money. The time Machine external hard drive is a RAID striped system with 5 HDD with a failover of 3 complete HDD failures simultaneously. Because of piracy, software installs will go to extraordinary lengths from having a license copy of the software cloned from one computer to another. I get it. People steal. Software companies deserve a pay cheque just as much as I do. I did what I did because of all the money and time I spend in setting up, installing and configuring my licensed software I wanted a fast resolution to recovery. As I learned from this experience it is simply not possible. If your HD changes, there are several disc sectors that are used for licensing that is not recovered in a carbon copy. Carbon Copy to me I thought was old school Bit Copy if you remember. Not so. Changing a motherboard or whole computer even if it is to a same make and model has issues too. It's called an ESN. Electronic Serial Number. This number that is specific to every motherboard made is used in licensing software. I searched the net looking for a way to PAY to have a fail safe system for recovery. I only found systems that are available or for very high sensitive information servers and is priced way out of reach for an average consumer. Meaning, that a complete disaster in your city will not loose billable or liable information about you. You can rest assure that after the zombie apocalypse you will still get your cell bill, hydro bill, mortgage payment schedules and your criminal record will remain intact. We can thank Hitler for teaching us that error when he destroyed the records of the cities he overthrew. It leaves me with an argument about accountability. Why is it when I buy software, I own nothing. It is a licensed agreement to use the software but I never own it. The developer sides with the fact they own the intellectual property and can not just sell it once and loose it. Agreed! It's the legal departments of the companies that want a piece of that pie too. So they remove any accountability of that licensed agreement that would hold them accountable the end user does in fact own nothing. When the software or product breaks down, their system they use that writes information to parts of your HDD that you can not back up and to be used against you because they don't trust you, there is plenty of small print that states they can not be held liable for their decisions. No matter what happens, their fault or not, with or without prejudice, they are not accountable, whatsoever. Being that I had no choice but beg and plead the people I paid money to for permission to use their software, on ways to help myself in a disaster, get copies back, to put me in the same state I was in before the disaster happened without getting further ahead of the game, I was simply told its not my problem or responsibility. When I asked about accountability? I am told read the fine print and when you are done, pay me to get the old copies back, to get the bootable medium you need and all along they way, let me ram a few more policies down your throat and say, your working software you had is no longer supported and you need to buy the updated version.
Can someone explain to me how I am a better person for all this. How about at least explain why I should not cave in like most other people I know and seek out pirated copies instead of paying for them. It's certainly not for support. I go none and what I was offered I had to pay for on top of paying for the license agreement.
My personal argument came to this head. I asked why do companies and people want to rip off each other. Was it greed? Was it economy? Was it the state of technology is changing so fast everyone is eventing on how to deal with this by the seat of their pants? Here is my conclusion: People generally are followers and not leaders. People that are leaders, thinkers and risk takers are generally outcasts, different and unusual people. Einstein said there is a very thin line between genius and insanity. He never said if they crossed that line or not or what happens. I think, the ones that do cross the line are more than we would like to consider acceptable. We coerced by their insane thinking, there leadership and their ideas. We elect them and let them form governments. We allow them to invent things and then tell us we can't live without it. I know most of you agree and some of you will say it has been going on for a long time. It's true. But like I said we are mostly followers. Thus it has been accepted as a way of life. Right? Wrong! The masses are getting fed up. They are being tired of being ripped off. Need to test this??? Just go a mall and on it's busiest night stand in the middle and shout at the top of your lungs "FREE 10" TABLETS, RIGHT OVER THERE" and point at some poor unsuspecting store. Watch what happens People love the word free. Because they are tired of not getting value for that they pay for. Free Software, Free Games, Free this and that. People download by the millions. Why, they no longer see the value of one person making money and getting value for that hard earned money. They are tired of paying for it and getting nothing. The know this intimately. Themselves are ripped off every day by government, insurance companies, banks, energy resources and yes even software companies. We have learned from the best, well at least the most insane. Here is a thought to leave you with as I seek to ponder about this experience and how I thought I had done the right thing for myself... get my value for my dollar: Have we been here before? YES, many times. The most recent one like this were the fat bubble burst was WWII. What happened in that war was not so much about the atrocities of the murdered and killed, the real story was the living, the survivors. The playing field was leveled. It no longer mattered just how rich you were, how new of a car your drove or what job you had made you different from everyone else. There was one objective. Survive. Live to see another day. After the war the survivors were not liberated. We had a great depression. Overcoming the loss of that war and the rebuilding that needed to be done when no one was willing to pay to have it done. We had to put our differences aside. Our culture, our creed, our resolve had no bearing. We were all in the same leveled playing field of life. My pondering is leaving me one tough question... What happened to us. How did we become so greedy and so racist with each other that we threw out accountability. Not only did we through it out, we all said ion way way or another that it was acceptable. Our problems may very well be different from each other but what has not changed we all feel we deserve respect and should hold each other accountable for our decisions. What happened to that very resolve that government bodies, religious leaders and factions, manufacturing and developing companies all feel this resolve does not apply to them. What happened?
LOL: Funny how a 12 cent CD could have been offered in the first place with a little knowledge being shared could have misdirected what I just said to the focus of this group. Wow.
Thank you people for helping me with my issues. I truly appreciate it. Thank you to those of you that put up with my rant. More thanks to those who read it. My sincerest apologies to those I reminded just how life *****. To the rest of you... click the home button on the browser. I hope it lands you on Google, Wiki or God forbid, Bing, were you can start a new quest in life.
-B

"F11 System Recovery" during boot does not work after Cloning hard drive.

Problem: “F11 System Recovery” during boot does not work after Cloning hard drive.
HP Envy m6-1125dx UEFI Notebook Computer with GPT hard drive.
Original Seagate Hard Disk GPT 700GB with Window 8.0_64 upgraded to Windows 8.1_64
Startup Menu (F11 System Menu works properly) only on original hard drive.
Following obtained from Disk Management & diskpart in Command Prompt.
GPT Disk <700GB>
Partition 1 WINRE NTFS Primary 235MB/400MB [Recovery]
Partition 2 EFI System FAT32 (LBA) Primary 108MB/260MB [System]
Partition 3 (NONE) Unformatted Primary 128MB/128MB [Reserve]
Partition 4 Main NTFS Primary 90GB/195GB [Primary “C”]
Partition 5 (NONE) NTFS Primary 372MB/450MB [Recovery]
Partition 6 Data NTFS Primary 7GB/475GB [Primary “E”]
Partition 7 NTFS Primary 26MB/350MB [Recovery]
Partition 8 Recovery NTFS Primary 24GB/26GB [Recovery “D”]
I have Cloned the original hard drive to a new HGST 1TB Hard Drive using four different methods (sector by sector):
Acronis True Image 2015
Acronis Backup for PC
AOMEI Backupper Professional
Macrium Reflect
Each time the cloning process completes successfully and has the same original partition arrangement. The computer works properly except when trying to use the “F11 System Menu” key during boot. It gives the following error message:
“Recovery
Your PC needs to be repaired
A required device isn’t connected or can’t be accessed.
Error code: 0xc0000225
You need to use the recovery tools on your installation media. If you don’t have any installation media (like a disc or USB device), contact your system administrator or PC manufacturer. “
Any suggestions why the F11 System Recovery does not work during boot and how to fix the problem would be appreciated. I have does various disk checking and file checking on both the original and new hard drive with no errors.
Thank you in advanced.

Hi,
How did you clone the HDD ? One-for-one or different method ?
Regards.
BH
**Click the KUDOS thumb up on the left to say 'Thanks'**
Make it easier for other people to find solutions by marking a Reply 'Accept as Solution' if it solves your problem.

How do I copy files onto a hard drive (device) from Mac 2 7 pc. I'm able to transfer files from device but cannot transfer files to device. Anyone had same problem or can help solve this problem? Help pls

how do I copy files onto a hard drive (device) from Mac 2 7 pc. I'm able to transfer files from device but cannot transfer files to device. Anyone had same problem or can help solve this problem? Help pls

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
When you try to copy data to the external drive, what happens? If you don't see any error, the external drive is formatted in NTFS, and OS X can't write in it.
To be able to write on this external drive, you have to use an app like Paragon NTFS. Another solution would be to format the external drive in FAT32 or exFAT with Disk Utility > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html Make sure you copied all the files of the external disk to the internal disk before doing it

How do i make a bootable cloned hard drive

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for