TheDude42 Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 I know there's already a sticky on increasing partition size, but since I just went through this by finding a variety of different posts I figured I'd help out and try and consolidate all this useful info into one guide for cloning your OSX installation to a new drive. Yes, this worked with my efi_patched Leopard install. Requirements (or at least, my setup) Three hard drives: 1) Vista/XP 2) Your current OSX installation 3) New drive (destination) 4) Acronis Trueimage (Windows). I think their demo version will still work. Step 1: Boot into Windows, run Acronis. Clone your osx disc to the new destination disk. Note 1: Acronis will not allow you to resize the destination partition - it will be the same as your current drive. We'll deal with this later. Note 2: Acronis doesn't report the drive as macos or HFS, but rather some other silly name. Don't worry about it. Step 2 In Vista, go into disk managment. (Right click on Computer, choose Manage, then go to disk manager). Create a new partition on the destination disk, in the unformatted space, but don't give it a drive letter or format it. We'll be merging this partition into our OSX one next. Shut Down. Step 3 Open up your computer. Unplug your old OSX installation (and save it for safekeeping in case you screw this up!). Make SURE to plug in your newly cloned drive into the SAME SATA PORT your old drive was plugged into. Restart, boot into OSX. It should work right away. Step 4 - Thanks to zuza from this post. This can be done from within a running Leopard Start Terminal diskutil list that listed back 2 partitions with the identifiers: disk1s1 and disk1s2 (in other cases might be disk0...) Now, sudo diskutil mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk1s1 disk1s2 did the trick ("New" is the name, it will actually be ignored). The first partition will be kept intact and the second one will be "merged" therefore you will loose all contents (I made sure it was empty before running the merge just in case). Tada! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75422-how-to-clone-your-osx-installation-to-a-larger-drive-easy/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterXXXShake Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 I just used diskutil off the install disk to create an image of the partition on a spare drive then restored to a new drive. I did preformat the new drive HFS+. I also had to set the boot flag using good ol' Gpartd. NOTE: I hadn't done the efi fix yet so make sure you have a mod kernel you know works ready just in case. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75422-how-to-clone-your-osx-installation-to-a-larger-drive-easy/#findComment-533607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuxuser33 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Prepare your new drive with Kalyway's Boot-CD Make your new drive bootable with script from /usr/misc on TOH-DVD Copy over your Leo with Hatchery_H. If nessecary redo script. Your done. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75422-how-to-clone-your-osx-installation-to-a-larger-drive-easy/#findComment-535353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintoy Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 i would use CCC and disk utility app for this. copy using CCC then restore using disk utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/75422-how-to-clone-your-osx-installation-to-a-larger-drive-easy/#findComment-535605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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