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    Cloning a macbook pro drive on a PC?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by boe, Jan 31, 2009.

  1. boe

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    Hello,

    I have a 2006 macbook pro 17". I want to upgrade the 120GB hard drive with a 500 GB drive. I normally use ghost on my PC to clone hard drives from laptops. Is there a Windows program that will allow my to clone an OSX drive from one hard drive to another?

    Thanks
     
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  2. Budding

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    What's wrong with using your Mac to clone? Just get a HD enclosure and use Disk Utility and use its Restore option to clone the disks. It is much harder to do it in Windows, since HFS+ is not supported.
     
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  3. boe

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    Nothing is wrong with using a mac to clone but since I already have a PC - I wouldn't have to spend any money on an enclosure.

    If you were to recommend an enclosure do you have one in mind? Do the 2006 macbooks have esata ports?

    Plus I want to clone the drive in the macbook to another drive to make it bootable - someone told me you can't do that with the utility from the existing startup drive.
     
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    No they dont have esata ports.
     
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    sulkorp - thanks
     
    boe, Feb 1, 2009
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    OS X supports boot from USB and Firewire, so all you need to do is install OS X on an external HD, or clone an existing OS X setup onto an external HD to make it bootable.

    Also, to keep things simple, just get a standard USB enclosure. Those are usually the cheapest anyway.
     
    Budding, Feb 1, 2009
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