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Carbon Copy Cloning

tekulvi

tekulvi

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Jan 27, 2008
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Rotterdam Junction, NY
I am putting a new hd in my macbook. I have an external ( in enclousure) and have formated the drive to HFS+ ( mac extended journaled).

I have a copy of Carbon Copy on the new hd and a copy of it in the internal. I would like to make a bootable copy onto the new drive and boot from there to test it.

The question is, how do I make sure that the external drive is bootable? Does that just automatically happen when I make the clone?
 
tekulvi said:
I am putting a new hd in my macbook. I have an external ( in enclousure) and have formated the drive to HFS+ ( mac extended journaled).

I have a copy of Carbon Copy on the new hd and a copy of it in the internal. I would like to make a bootable copy onto the new drive and boot from there to test it.

The question is, how do I make sure that the external drive is bootable? Does that just automatically happen when I make the clone?
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What is more important is what kind of a drive is the external? If it's not FireWire, it's not bootable. It's a hardware issue and has nothing to do with the drive you're putting in the enclosure.

I would suggest just booting with your restore or OS X DVD, install the OS on the new drive, and use Migration Assistant to bring everything over. That's probably the easiest way to do it.

<shameless plug> I prefer to use Drive Genius to "duplicate" the drive, which allows you to transfer an exact copy of the old drive onto an new (larger) drive and reset it to recognize the whole "new" drive.

Just my personal preference... I never had any luck with CCC, but I know people who swear by it.

MacDann
 
MacDann said:
What is more important is what kind of a drive is the external? If it's not FireWire, it's not bootable. It's a hardware issue and has nothing to do with the drive you're putting in the enclosure.

I would suggest just booting with your restore or OS X DVD, install the OS on the new drive, and use Migration Assistant to bring everything over. That's probably the easiest way to do it.

<shameless plug> I prefer to use Drive Genius to "duplicate" the drive, which allows you to transfer an exact copy of the old drive onto an new (larger) drive and reset it to recognize the whole "new" drive.

Just my personal preference... I never had any luck with CCC, but I know people who swear by it.

MacDann
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Yeah, I've had perfect success with CCC and as long as it is a Firewire drive you will be able to boot from a full backup.

Just hold the Option key at bootup and once you've completed the full CCC backup you should see the Firewire drive as a boot option.

Drive Genius sounds like a nice solution too but can you do incremental backups with that method where it just adds files to the copy that have been changed or removes deleted files?
 
MacDann said:
<shameless plug> I prefer to use Drive Genius to "duplicate" the drive, which allows you to transfer an exact copy of the old drive onto an new (larger) drive and reset it to recognize the whole "new" drive.
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By doing this all you have to do is format the new drive then use DG to make the copy don't you? Don't have to fart about with re installing the OS first? Am I right?
 
AndyK said:
By doing this all you have to do is format the new drive then use DG to make the copy don't you? Don't have to fart about with re installing the OS first? Am I right?
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Yes, you are correct. You can boot with the Drive Genius DVD, have your original drive in the enclosure, new drive in the computer, and DG will "clone" or duplicate, as it's called, an exact image of the original drive on the new drive. Once that's done, you just have to go in to "partition" (I think) and reset the new drive to recognize the whole partition.

I went from a 100G drive to a 320G drive last night on my MBP and it took about 90 minutes for the whole process, if I recall.

Quite painless, too.

MacDann
 
JohnNotBeatle said:
Unless it's a CCC-unique issue, USB drives are bootable on Intel Macs. SuperDuper! does it no problem (though FW is preferable because of speed, anyway).
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True,.. I did this very recently. OS X does not always cooperate using key commands on bootup, I find that the easiest way to make this happen is to connect the drive, and set it as the desired startup drive in system pref's.
 
MacDann said:
What is more important is what kind of a drive is the external? If it's not FireWire, it's not bootable. It's a hardware issue and has nothing to do with the drive you're putting in the enclosure.

I would suggest just booting with your restore or OS X DVD, install the OS on the new drive, and use Migration Assistant to bring everything over. That's probably the easiest way to do it.

<shameless plug> I prefer to use Drive Genius to "duplicate" the drive, which allows you to transfer an exact copy of the old drive onto an new (larger) drive and reset it to recognize the whole "new" drive.

Just my personal preference... I never had any luck with CCC, but I know people who swear by it.

MacDann
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The drive I have is the same one you have...a WD 320 Passport. It is a USB. Is drive genius free?
 
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