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Free program that creates a HD CLone?

zepharus

zepharus

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Aug 7, 2007
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Im looking for a free program that is easy to use and does a good job of basically working like Norton Ghost (I.E Cloning the entire drive) For Leopard.

I ALSO need someone to recommend a free program that does the same for PC. If they are the same program even better! Thanks in advance!
 
I use SuperDuper!. For some reason I just don't trust CCC. I tried it until there was a Leopard version of SD!, but it always seemed to me to backup files and directories that were completely unnecessary (they had not changed at all); this always made me wonder what it was NOT copying that it should have copied. There are just too many warnings and caveats on the CCC site for me to be comfortable with it.
 
zepharus said:
Super Duper and Carbon Copy Cloner can Clone my Gaming Rig (PC) HD also??
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No.

WinClone can clone a NTFS Bootcamp partition on a Mac.

On a side note, this thread has me wondering if it is somehow possible to clone a PC HD if you connect it to a Mac? I may have to give that a try.
 
zepharus said:
Im looking for a free program that is easy to use and does a good job of basically working like Norton Ghost (I.E Cloning the entire drive) For Leopard.

I ALSO need someone to recommend a free program that does the same for PC. If they are the same program even better! Thanks in advance!
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The Unix dd command... conveniently built right into Leopard. Psst...you can even rip DVDs with it....;)

http://www.mckeay.net/2004/10/18/using-dd-to-clone-a-hd/
 
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