Snollygoster Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Hello all, I have OS X installed on a SATA drive and it is configured to run great, exactly as I want it, with plenty of applications installed, hacks applied and so on. I am interested in buying a Raptor and use it as my OS X primary disk drive. What I need to know is whether there is a way to install the raptor as a second drive, create an image of my current active drive and restore it in the raptor so that I can boot from the raptor and have my OS X installation as it is. Is this possible - just to clone an OS X 86 disk to another disk? If yes will it clone MBR as well? Thank you all in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 The easiest if your disks are equal the same and you are not familiar with OSX use Norton Ghost or any other disk clone... if they are not the same size use Carbon Copy Cloner (it's Free), or boot with OSX install DVD and create a .DMG image of your system using disk utility and then restore it to the other disk... shutdown remove the old disk boot and check if everything it's OK!!! work around for a while to see if everything it's as it should be... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-110103 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snollygoster Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 The easiest if your disks are equal the same and you are not familiar with OSX use Norton Ghost or any other disk clone... if they are not the same size use Carbon Copy Cloner (it's Free), or boot with OSX install DVD and create a .DMG image of your system using disk utility and then restore it to the other disk... shutdown remove the old disk boot and check if everything it's OK!!! work around for a while to see if everything it's as it should be... Thank you for the prompt reply but it seems that I can't make it work. 1. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to make a clone of my "active" partition to the new empty hard disk. After it finished I try booting from that disk with no luck. A white cursor was blinking at the upper left corner of my screen. 2. I rebooted used disk utility to make an image of my curently working partition but again no luck as you can not restore the image while booted from the cd (you can not drag and drop the disk) and when trying to restore from within OS X it would give me an Error (1) unable to restore... 3. Now I am using CCC once again to create an image (not clone directly to another drive) and I will try to restore that image from disk utility. Is there anything else I should know? Do I have to select the partition I want to boot OSX from within my currently active OS X partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-110246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Have you follow the instructions on CCCloner? Is your replacement disk MAC formated? you can copy the .DMG from Disk utility with CCCloner, Just mount the .DMG first.. another think is the name of you disk... if you named it as "MAC os X" rename it as "MACOSX" names with spaces are causing problems sometimes.. with the RD=disk?s? command on bootloader you can boot on either installation you want... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-110272 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Use Ghost 7.5 NET. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-110413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
user2 Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 I spent hours dicking around with Carbon copy cloner, it never worked. I used hiren's boot cd which includes Acronis True Image, worked like a charm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-110456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snollygoster Posted May 10, 2006 Author Share Posted May 10, 2006 I spent hours dicking around with Carbon copy cloner, it never worked. I used hiren's boot cd which includes Acronis True Image, worked like a charm. CCC and NetRestore never worked I tried in 10 different ways. What I did is to install OS X on the new disk and then use apple's migration wizard to transfer my entire profile from the other partition. Worked amazingly well and much faster than cloning (OS X takes like 10 mins to install transfering a 36 GB profile & apps took 45 mins). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-110579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuntz Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 today i did a carbon copy of my win partition with a new program i never used before: PARAGON DRIVE COPY. It's an all in one DOS mode software to easy make a disc or partion copy (after downloaded it makes a bootable iso that you need to burn on a blank cd)..very simple to use and it supports my uli sata&pata controller fine!!! i think it's best cloner!! very good!!!! bye Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-110830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhodar Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 I found the easiest way to clone a disk is using winhex for windows. Just select your disk and select your destination(either your other disk, or as an .img file, which u can later clone to your other disk) You can download an evaluation version quite easily, however you will require a serial key for it. However, looking up serial keys from www.serialz.to is illegal, even though you will definatly find it there!!! Goodluck Rhodar PS Winhex copies everything, mbr and all. I think you can skip it to if for some reason you do not want it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-111033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantist Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 Never forget a unix-way There's nice util on every mac/unix at all. It's called dd :pirate2: dd if=/source_disk of=/dest_disk (just find proper block device). Theres plenty dd guides on this site ^) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17045-how-to-make-an-identical-image-of-a-hard-disk/#findComment-111171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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