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So what are your suggestions
I am planning on getting a new hard drive for mt MBP. I am currently using Leopard.
What are my options for doing an exact clone from old HD to new HD, Then I can just swap the drives. Thanks for your advice. |
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CCC v3 is supposed to work, I am patiently waiting as a paying supporter of SuperDuper, but you asked what works right now. |
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Have you heard of anyone using CCC v3 successfully in a clone restore?
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Restoring by doing an erase and install, then migrating in from the clone is applicable to Superduper! or CCC, and has the advantage of ending up with a fresh new OS. If you have Photoshop, I recommend deactivating it before any cloning. |
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I am confused. Do you mean to reinstall my OS, then clone it? That would defeat the purpose...if I am understanding you correctly. |
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Alternatively, you can create a user at the end of the erase and install, and do the migration in afterwards using Migration Assistant, but you need to use a different (temporary) username from the one you will be importing. After you have imported your regular user, you can re login as your regular user and delete the temporary one. These methods are equally applicable for Superduper! or CCC. I have done it for Leopard and CCC and it worked well. |
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Disk Utility works perfectly.
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How do I use the Disk Utility? I didn't know it can do that.
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So what you do is, you launch Disk Utility, you click your source partition, you click on the "Restore" tab, add your source partition to the "Source:" field, your destination partition to the "Destination:" field, tick the Erase destination option, and click Restore. In my experience, works a treat. I set it to do its thing while I'm sleeping, as since it's erasing the thing first, it's time-consuming. Hope that helps! |
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Ok well I tried your suggestions. Here is the issue I ran into.
I went to Disk Utility, then clicked on the Mac HD drive in the left menu. When I click on restore it asks for the source.....then it brings up the hard drive top menu. I think it is looking for an actual diskimage. Isn't that what I am trying to create? It doesn't give me the option of just creating a whole drive clone or whole drive image. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Again |
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