Carbon copy cloner windows install#
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You can just clone the startup disk via DU while it's running and there is no need to do an intermediate DMG file, it can do a 1:1 copy. Which can be really annoying, and sometimes that forces you to use other software.

Carbon copy cloner windows software#

I like Apple's software a lot too, but sometimes they have this habit of just not allowing things they 'dont want you to do'. I wasnt sure if Apple's migration assistant was able to do this, but it sounds on you like it is? Yet, people will still look for other tools because the believe them to be better.In my particular case, I dont want to have to re-install Waves, Native Instruments, Sound Toys, Sonnox, Ivory, etc etc, lots of 3rd party software. Yet, people will still look for other tools because the believe them to be better.Īpple's utils are among the best in the business.

Carbon copy cloner windows manual#

And then you need to do a manual rebuild, maybe going back with TM to a point were data wasn't corrupted yet.Īpple's utils are among the best in the business. When it fails, there's usually something very funky goin' on, like corrupt data and system files from a disk that was slowly failing. Meaning, people who have crosscompilers or large custom library builds and stuff like that on their system. I do this for a living and handle a large number of strange systems. Even updating from 10.4 to 10.6 works correctly (albeit maybe not for all software).Īlso, if you are told by OSX that you need to fix a lot of permissions, there's something very wrong with that disk.

Carbon copy cloner windows install#

With a new disk, install OSX from scratch, then transfer settings, software and/or data with Migration Assistant and it'll automagically fix most permissions problems and such stuff. Try to clone a 1 TB disk to a 3 TB and you'll see what I mean. If you get another drive, with a different size, there are some problems CCC and SD do not compensate for. If you need to clone a harddisk to several others, a cloning tool is what you need. It's really a bad habit to think 3rd party tools are better.ĬCC and SuperDuper are fine tools but they are no backup tools. Most people should use Time Machine and Migration Assistant. but even still, HD copy is a HD copy, shouldn't matter the size unless it's too small. so before it was 50GB, and 2nd time around (even with Window partition) i upsized to 75GB. the only diff when i did CCC, is that i wanted more space on my OS HD. but CCC definitely worked the second time around. My thought was that using CCC with a partition may have been the problem - can't say that for sure. also didn't go the partition route this time - just a straight backup HD to HD. but test booting from the CCC source is very important - verify the CCC before doing anything. Recently i upgraded to 10.5.7 - i decided to try CCC again - this time it worked like a charm.

I also ended up sorting out my 10.5.6 issue's on the main HD and all was good so i didn't need the CCC backup after all. i ended up wiping the drive and reformating it as one HD (no partition).

what i found out on closer inspection, was that parts of the system directory was empty - no files copied ?! also discovered (via Disk Utility) that the partition needed repair.

Carbon copy cloner windows upgrade#

When upgrading from 10.5.4 to 10.5.6 i bought a new WD internal drive partitioned it and then CCC'd the system drive to the smaller side of the partition (note: more than enough to hold all system files) - i upgraded to 10.5.6, but when i had some issues with the upgrade i only then (my bad) tried to boot from the CCC backup - no go - got the ? on boot.