thefinalprophecy Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Basically I have all my settings perfect on my disk, and I want to be able to back up the entire thing, partitions and all, so that I can reformat and experiment with the disk. How should I do this? It's formatted GUID and has EFI_8 installed. Should I do it from Windows using MacDrive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90209-whats-a-good-way-to-back-up-my-entire-leopard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefinalprophecy Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 I'm trying out Carbon Copy Cloner that the advice of another post on this forum, we'll see how it goes. Apparently I will still have to install EFI when I restore. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90209-whats-a-good-way-to-back-up-my-entire-leopard-drive/#findComment-643621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 i think the very best way would be to clone the entire disk, bit by bit, onto another identical (or at least same-sized) disk. dunno if norton ghost would handle the GPT stuff. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90209-whats-a-good-way-to-back-up-my-entire-leopard-drive/#findComment-644150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenesis Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I haven't found a way to back up and restore a Hackintosh boot drive yet. I've tried cloning with Disk Utility, Time Machine, SuperDuper!, and Carbon Copy Cloner, and in all cases, restored drives won't boot. It's no problem on a real Apple Macintosh with any of these utilities. I get the most accurate clones with SuperDuper! 2.5. Other people have had success cloning Hackintosh boot drives, but I've had nothing but failure, and it's a pain in the neck. I've had much better luck just building new boot drives from scratch. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90209-whats-a-good-way-to-back-up-my-entire-leopard-drive/#findComment-644531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
unohoo Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Acronis True Image is the only solution I have for you - tried all the rest. It is a copy disk-to-disk strategy which produces a bootable clone. However you need the target disk to be larger or same size. It pays to have the source disk size as 20GB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/90209-whats-a-good-way-to-back-up-my-entire-leopard-drive/#findComment-646478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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