herbalb Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Hello everyone. It seems that my Western Digital harddrive is about to cease functioning soon (according to SMART-Status and drive diagnostic tools) so I have to find a way to make a bootable clone to an other (identical) harddisk as soon as possible. My Hackintosh is running OSX 10.5.2 with MBR, not GUID. On a different drive (not partition) I am running Windows. According to what I read here, Clonetool Hatchery isn't yet fully working with Leo and I don't think I have much time left to try or experiment with too many different tools. What program(s) should I use to make a direct & bootable backup from my OSX-harddisk that really works? It took me days to get my hackintosh to work as good as it does now - and to be honest, as I am still not very experienced with hackintosh/OSX yet, I need a solution as easy as possible to clone my disk. Hope someone can help. herb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Boot with your installation DVD - once you're in the Mac OS X Installer, use Disk Utility to create a "new Disk Image" of your OS partition. That image can be "restored" to a new MBR partition on a new (different) drive and it should be bootable. I've done that, should work for you... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-794376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbalb Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 @ cgsheen Thank you for your answer. Does this work even though I am using EFI8? Should I expect to encounter any problems when restoring to the new drive or will it be bootable right away? So to be sure that I do this correct about the steps to do: 1. Should I make the image of the harddrive displayed as "232.9 GB WDC WD2500AAKS-00VSA0" or of the partition which I labeled "OSX" in order to make a fully working backup? 2. Then I save the backup to another drive that I plugged in ( I use the HD where I saved my Time Machine backups), right? 3. Then I exchange drives (insert the new hd), boot Install-DVD, format new drive with MBR and click on restore from Image? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-794418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Carbon copy clone is a good way... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-794440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbalb Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 @ Levkovski Thank you, too. It's good to have an alternative choice just in case that Disk Utility won't do. Will it work right away with hackintosh-PCs (as long as my OSX still lives) or should I look for any tutorial? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-794451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie's Soliloquy Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Carbon worked literally out-of-the-box with my hackintosh, just select a target disk and it creates a bootable copy Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-794454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgsheen Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 @ cgsheen Thank you for your answer. Does this work even though I am using EFI8? Should I expect to encounter any problems when restoring to the new drive or will it be bootable right away? So to be sure that I do this correct about the steps to do: 1. Should I make the image of the harddrive displayed as "232.9 GB WDC WD2500AAKS-00VSA0" or of the partition which I labeled "OSX" in order to make a fully working backup? 2. Then I save the backup to another drive that I plugged in ( I use the HD where I saved my Time Machine backups), right? 3. Then I exchange drives (insert the new hd), boot Install-DVD, format new drive with MBR and click on restore from Image? 1 - Personally, I just used it to make an image of my OS partition, not the entire drive. Should work, but I don't have any experience making an image of an entire drive using the Disk Utility. 2 - Yup. I have even created an image with compression and stored that on a DVD - then restored from the DVD with the image file on it. (my basic OSx86 install was less than 7GB, the compressed image was about 2.8GB - easy to get on a DVD...) 3 - 10-4... When I did it, I re-created my OS partition on the new drive the same size that it was on the old drive. I have NO idea if that's actually necessary, but it worked, and was immediately bootable. It honestly worked just as if I'd never swapped drives - hope it's the same for you as it was fairly simple to do... Oh, I have done it exactly that way with a 10.5.2, EFI v8, MBR install... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-794478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbalb Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Many thanks to you guys, cgsheen and Levkovski. I just made a backup with Disk Util and after having freed some space on my Time Machine-HD I will make another one with Carbon Copy Cloner, just to be sure. Probably my new HD will arrive tomorrow, then I can finally try restoring my beloved system - I really hope this works (I'll post it here). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-795160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbalb Posted June 27, 2008 Author Share Posted June 27, 2008 Just wanted to let you know that it worked. Maybe it would have been bootable right away if I had stayed with MBR but as I changed from MBR to GUID before restoring I used the EFI.sh-script to (re-)install Efi and to make the drive bootable again. So thank you very much, guys! :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112232-my-hard-disk-is-about-to-die-i-really-need-to-clone-my-leopard-system-as-soon-and-easy-as-possible/#findComment-798732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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