Varvas Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 I want to clone my system HDD to bigger one. Tried "Carbon Copy Cloner" without success - I get only a blinking " _ ", nothing else. Also tried "asr" and ended up with same result. Am I doing something wrong? Where's the catch? Thanks in advance... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicklas Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 the key is: CloneTool Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/#findComment-285188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
japhex Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 CCC worked for me (as long as I create the target partition in 10.4.7 disk utility, 10.4.8 DU didn't work, using xp bootmanager +chain0 to boot) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/#findComment-285564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxuser33 Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 (edited) Try this! http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39748 1. make a GPART Live-CD 2. optional: usualy maintenance Check HD with Diskutil, clear free space , defragment 3. boot GPART Live-CD 4. make a copy of your source-partition 5. set flags to "boot" , set Filesystem-ID to AF (from linux-terminal) 6. check your new drive with Diskutil booted from OSX-DVD (repairs wrong Volume-Headers) 7. boot off of your new drive if it fail or boot off of your old drive try this: - remove the old drive, attach your new drive as first primary drive boot your new drive if it fail boot your OSX-DVD - unmount your new drive ,otherwise nothing would be written - perform the fdisk with option "update" in terminal Boot your cloned OSX! You are done! Its for free! No need for Windows$$$, Acronis,PartitionMagic,... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- edit : Today tried clonetool http://art5dog.com/Clonetool/CT.html Works for me. Made the preparation as before. Partitioning, do format as FAT32, set flags and ID to AF. Then do the copyshop work! Fine. Edited February 3, 2007 by tuxuser33 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/#findComment-285827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varvas Posted January 28, 2007 Author Share Posted January 28, 2007 (edited) OK! Final and working solution: 1) I copied files using Disk Utility's restore function 2) Made disk bootable using GPARTED live-cd Using only GPARTED wasnt possible because it could not resize my new partition (new HDD was bigger that the old one). Thanks, tuxuser33! Edited January 28, 2007 by Varvas Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/#findComment-287104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxuser33 Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 (edited) Hi, the advantage of GPART is copy only your OSX-partition. Mine was the second of three. You may copy as long as your new drive is bigger than the single partition. Other tools ever do a copy of the whole drive. Searched the internet, looked around and around. Sadly, never found a tool that do resize upward. Some tools like Apple's Bootcamp may decrease a HPFS+-partition. hint: If you realy need a bigger partition size, do a minimal fresh install and transfer your programs and data using the migration-assistent. See below. I found in the forum: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- User Rammjet says: "the first step is to solve your formatting problem. The OSX drive needs to be HFS+. Use some Windows/Linux utility to format the entire hard drive (again) as FAT32. Don't use Windows itself because it has a limit of (I forget) something like 32 GB for a FAT32 partititon. Then in Disk Utility, select the primary partition (it is 99.9% of the whole drive) shown below the hard drive icon and format that partition as HFS+. Then I routinely use the Restore function of Disk Utility to clone my partitions. Drag the existing OSX partition icon to the source field and the new hard drive primary partition (not hard drive) icon to the destination field." Edited January 28, 2007 by tuxuser33 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/#findComment-287441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDra Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 You can`t resize, but you can format bigger Linux partition using GParted, and then format it to HFS+ in Disk Utility. That`s how I made it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/#findComment-290689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 the key is: CloneTool Nicklas, Thank you for the Referral. gt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/39910-disk-cloning-problems/#findComment-291515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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