What is the best program to clone a mac HD?

[btcomm]

What is the best free program? If there is no free program what is the best one for the price?

 

[72930]

Carbon Copy Cloner

I used to use SuperDuper! but its not 100% Leopard compatible

 

[btcomm]

Superduper says it will copy most files, is it possible to restore the files that super duper backs up to get a booting system again if the internal HD goes bad?

 

[holtchristian]

i used carbon copy cloner and it worked perfectly

 

[btcomm]

Do you know if carbon copy cloner would clone disk errors as well? Or do you think it would leave that part out?

 

[Eidorian]

Do you know if carbon copy cloner would clone disk errors as well? Or do you think it would leave that part out?

Can you elaborate on disk errors?

 

[btcomm]

Can you elaborate on disk errors?

Like the kind you get if you boot off of the DVD and go to disk utility and you click verify disk, not verify disk permissions but verify disk, it will tell you if there are btree errors etc.

Also with cloning with the carbon copy cloner, how do you restore the image to a new hard drive? Or do you have to clone the image to another HD that will fit in the laptop and repalce the drive?

 

[spinne1]

Like the kind you get if you boot off of the DVD and go to disk utility and you click verify disk, not verify disk permissions but verify disk, it will tell you if there are btree errors etc.

Also with cloning with the carbon copy cloner, how do you restore the image to a new hard drive? Or do you have to clone the image to another HD that will fit in the laptop and repalce the drive?

As for the first issue, try to repair the drive before cloning or perhaps reinstall the OS with "archive and install."

As to the second, you don't make an image, you literally copy the entire drive to a different hard drive (or partition), including the hidden files that are required with OS X. You don't replace the original drive. After cloning, you can boot from the newly copied drive by going to System Preferences-->Startup Disk and selecting the new drive. To go back to the original, repeat the process.

So, to use CCC, you need a second hard drive or partition of the same size or bigger than the information stored on your source drive or partition.