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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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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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. -
No they dont have esata ports.
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sulkorp - thanks
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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.
Cloning a macbook pro drive on a PC?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by boe, Jan 31, 2009.