[geeks] Cloning entire hard drive (including BootCamp partition)

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 19:04:52 CST 2007


Super Duper with an external Firewire enclosure for the drive works great. I
use it 10 times a day.

Rick


On 11/6/07 4:40 PM, "Shannon Hendrix" <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

> On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Jon Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking to upgrade my MacBook Pro's internal hard drive... is
>> there any way to clone the entire drive, including the BootCamp
>> partition, to the next drive?
> 
> Superduper might do that.
> 
> I use it for backups, and it creates a bootable drive image that I
> believe you can write to a drive, or boot from.
> 
> Not sure about a ghost-ish app for Mac though.
> 
> I guess you could put a notebook drive in a USB enclosure and use dd.
> 
>> Short of that, what is the best utility for Vista to clone the Vista
>> partition such that it can be restored to the next machine without,
>> you know, reinstalling Vista and all the applications?
> 
> Ghost or True Image?
> 
> I bought Acronis True Image for $30 in a local computer store.



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