is it possible to "clone" a boot drive?

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arcsbite

Guest

Original poster

• Jul 13, 2007

• #1

I just bought a new 500gb HDD for my Mac Pro for storage purposes
My current OS HDD is a 500gb seagate which is REALLY loud.

I am wanting to clone my OS drive onto the new quieter drive and then use the old loud seagate for storage.
is there a way to do this?

will the OS still run properly once cloned onto a new drive?
thanks

 

Markleshark

macrumors 603

• Jul 13, 2007

• #2

I think Carbon Copy Cloner will allow you to do that.

🙂

 

SmurfBoxMasta

macrumors 65816

• Jul 13, 2007

• #3

www.versiontracker.com is your friend 😀

 

robbieduncan

Moderator emeritus

• Jul 13, 2007

• #4

Markleshark said:

I think Carbon Copy Cloner will allow you to do that.

🙂

Click to expand...

Or SuperDuper!

 

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Bob Jovi

macrumors regular

• Jul 13, 2007

• #5

I have a similar question actually. But my powermac has died. So can I take the HD out and put it in an enclosure, then make an exact clone of it onto another external HD hooked up to my macbook?

 

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Sherman Homan

macrumors 6502

• Jul 13, 2007

• #6

As mentioned, Carbon Copy, SuperDuper and even plain old Disk Utility will all make bootable clones. CC and SD will allow you greater control to make schedules and select files for future backups.