MacOs-Linux, an operating system based on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) that imitates Mac OS X as closely as possible, is now available for download. Psystar's order page lists Snow Leopard as a $69.99 optional upgrade from the default Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard. The Snow Leopard upgrade, however, also includes a copy of Apple's iLife and iWork. There are many ways to clone a drive on Mac OS X, but none quite as simple and effective as Carbon Copy Cloner. It's our top pick for disk cloning utilities because it gets the job done any.
Les Rosenbaum asks:
After five years, I am considering the purchase of a new iMac. In migrating from the old to the new is the best choice Migration Assistant, Time Machine, or SuperDuper?
It depends on the vintage of machines you’re migrating from and to. If the new Mac can run the same operating system as the old one, I’d lean towards using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. However, if you can’t run the same version of macOS/OS X on both computers, a clone won’t work: it can’t boot on the new machine, and you need to pick Time Machine or Migration Assistant.
If you want to use a cloning tool, follow these steps:
- In SuperDuper or CCC, make a full clone of your current computer, either as a disk image or as a mountable volume. Either way, you’ll need to be able to access this clone on the new machine.
- Start the new computer using macOS Recovery: hold down Command and R during startup until you see a macOS Utilities screen.
- Select Disk Utility.
- Select the internal drive or boot partition in the list at left.
- Click the Restore button.
- From the Restore From popup menu, select your clone. If it’s a disk image, click the Image button to find it on a mounted drive.
- Click Restore and be prepared to wait a long while!
- When the restoration is complete, exit Disk Utility and select > Startup Disk.
- Select the drive to which you restored your clone, and then click Restart.
If you miss and can’t complete step 9, restart and hold down the Option key at startup, and select the startup volume you just restored.
If this doesn’t work, it’s possible your old Mac doesn’t have all the system files necessary to work with your new Mac.
You can also pursue Migration Assistant during initial setup of a new computer or after setting up an account. Migration Assistant can guide you through connecting another Mac, or you can select a Time Machine backup.
I’m inclined here to recommend a Time Machine backup on an external drive that can be connected directly to the new machine. The process should be faster and have less complexity than connecting two computers.
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Whenever you want to replace hard drive by a new one, or change it to SSD in your MacBook Pro (as well as in other types of Mac computers), you will also need to re-install the Mac OS X on the new drive. It's better to perform a clean installation so your system does not have some old file garbage, but you will need to spend more time with the installation of your other software and restoring of backup of your documents, photos, music and other data back to your Mac.
If the system on your old hard drive is working without any problems, you can save your time and clone the old disk with all of your data to new one with a few steps. For cloning the disk you can use Disk Utility that is a part of Mac OS X and OS X Utilities, or third-party software, like Carbon Copy Cloner.
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How to clone Mac hard drive with Disk Utility
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Replace the hard drive in your Mac, the old disk put in the USB HDD rack and Connect it to the USB port as well as installation flash drive.
Hold the Alt (option) key, press the power button.
In boot option menu select installation flash drive and wait till the OS X Utilities starts.
In boot option menu select installation flash drive and wait till the OS X Utilities starts.
SelectDisk Utility in OS X Utilities main menu and click on Continue button.
Click on a new hard drive, or SSD drive installed in Mac → Partition tab and configure a partition on a new drive. In our case 1 Partition.
Set the drive name and format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system.
Set the drive name and format it to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system.
Click on Options.. button and selectGUID Partition Table option. Click on OK button.
Click on Apply button and wait till Disk Utility formats the drive and creates a new partition.
Oyster wars mac os. Click on old system partition (in our case Macintosh HD) on the hard drive stored in HDD rack and selectRestore tab.
Simply by using drag and drop set as the Source the old system partition (Macintosh HD) and Destination will be your new partition (new hard drive or SSD). Click on Restore button.
Now wait till the cloning process will be finished. After that, close Disk Utility, restart the Mac and wait till the cloned system boots up.
How to clone Mac hard drive with Carbon Copy Cloner
If you want to clone a OS X system disk with the Apple Disk Utility, you have to be in Recovery mode.The Disk Utility can not clone the disk on which you are running the operating system.
However, you can also use utility called Carbon Copy Cloner that is able to clone system disks directly in Mac OS X.
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Download the Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to your Mac (You will need version 3.3.7. later versions are not freeware).
Put the new drive to USB HDD rack and connect it to USB port. Format it with the Disk Utility as described in first guide.
Start the CCC application. Select system disk as a Source Disk and disk in USB rack (as well as USB flash disk etc.) as a Target Disk.
Click on Clone button and wait till the CCC finishes cloning of system disk.
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Now you can replace the disks in your Mac, or use it as another bootable system disk in a HDD rack etc.