kmand Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I have a D620 with a disk that has both 10.6 and 10.7 on it (I can boot either)? I want to clone the 10.7 to a smaller disk, which I want to be bootable. The smaller disk is connected through a USB adapter. Whats the best way to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted February 21, 2012 Administrators Share Posted February 21, 2012 Hi.. I normally use copycat x. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 21, 2012 Administrators Share Posted February 21, 2012 I use superduper .. works like a charm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egypt123 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Has anyone successfully cloned a dual boot Win7/OSX drive? I'm curious if something like the Acronis disk-clone function would correclty clone/copy the OSX parition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted March 1, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 1, 2012 Hi... Cloning an os x partition is straight forward with the tools mentioned above as os x can easily boot from any new partition created. Cloning a windows partition is tricky as it may not boot from the new partition created. So far I've been successful using winclone only. However, you need to a create an external or second hard disk with os x system as the winclone will unmount the whole hard disk and not just the windows partition. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted March 1, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 1, 2012 you can try with clonezilla http://clonezilla.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cristoslc Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 I've had great success using Clonezilla to clone an entire drive (tri-boot, 10.6.0/Win7/Win8 preview). However, things got a lot trickier when I tried backing up/restoring *single* partitions via Clonezilla. I believe this was due to some bootloader/hybrid partition table issues complicated by the presence of Windows 8. However, even after restoring the whole disk (with the "whole disk" image, not just one partition at a time) I still had to repair my bootloaders. Specifically, I had to delete /Extra (using Terminal, when booted from the OS X Install USB drive), use the bootloader off the USB drive to boot into my local HDD's OS X install, re-run EDP (v1.9 on OSX 10.6.0) and then re-install Chameleon. If you're just dual-booting OS X and Win 7 or XP, that should be sufficient. In my case, I then had to go in and repair the Windows 7 bootloader and make it load BEFORE Chameleon. However, the only reason I'm using the Win7 bootloader is because Chameleon seems to have issues loading Windows 8. I haven't determined if it's a problem with my partition map, or if there's some new funky formatting thing that Windows 8 does, causing Chameleon not to recognize the partition correctly. I expect everything to go to heck when I do the 10.6.8 upgrade (and apply EDP 1.9.2), and will probably have to go through all this again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo mac Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Using the CCC as Im typing right now , I prefer this one cause of the options to select exactly what you want and dont want to clone , useful when going from a big disk to small when you need to experiment with kext and such Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted April 21, 2012 Administrators Share Posted April 21, 2012 Hi cristosic, You can boot Windows 8 with chameleon. However, you need to reinstall the mbr, bootsector and bootmenu before you reinstall chameleon. The Windows 8 will detect both the windows 8 and Windows 7 partitition. I'm assuming you have updated your hybrid partition table off course. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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