Hogweed Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Please be gentle with me – I’m new to this world of Macs. When building Windows laptops – which I do a lot – I save a great deal of time by either cloning the disk from a similar machine using Norton Ghost or similar, or from an image on DVD – also Ghost etc. Is there a similar utility which will let me do the same thing on Macs? At the moment, I have about a dozen a week to do (MacBooks, iMacs) and I’m installing everything laboriously from the original disks… Thanks a lot for any help! Roger Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexstein Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Two Application come to mind: Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper both should get that type of work done easily. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1102121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenesis Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I do cloning all of the time. I have found that Carbon Copy Cloner sometimes misses files. I use SuperDuper 2.5 religiously now. It's awesome! One of my favorite things. And the smart update feature actually works incredibly well. Those guys rule!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1102206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogweed Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 I do cloning all of the time. I have found that Carbon Copy Cloner sometimes misses files. I use SuperDuper 2.5 religiously now. It's awesome! One of my favorite things. And the smart update feature actually works incredibly well. Those guys rule!! Thanks guys. Wow - a helpful Mac forum. This would seem to be a rarity, sadly - when I've asked this on other forums (even "Ultimate" ones...), I get answers such as "Stop trying to pirate software"! Just for the record, I'm not - all the Macs I deal with have their original installation disks. It's just a pain having to go through the complete process on each. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1102267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 superduper is a godsend.... also winclone if you want to clone windows volumes from within OS X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1102372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogweed Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 superduper is a godsend.... also winclone if you want to clone windows volumes from within OS X Thanks guys... one thing I notice though. You can access the Mac’s serial number through “About This Mac”. Will that update itself in some way after I boot it for the first time with its new image, or must I do it manually? Are there any other changes like this I’d have to make? Or do people just not worry about it! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1102431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 the serial number is in firmware.... your thinking of install SIDs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1103510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Conte Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I used SuperDuper. And it works really good! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1103656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
madhias Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 superduper is a godsend.... also winclone if you want to clone windows volumes from within OS X Does Winclone only work with Bootcamp XP or Vista? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1111225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralusman Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Does Winclone only work with Bootcamp XP or Vista? I second this question. I cloned Vista on a mbr formatted hard drive to a image with Winclone. But when I tried to restore the image I get an error saying Invalid GPT signature. Make sure this disk uses the GPT partitioning scheme. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/156722-clone-hard-disk/#findComment-1169130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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