I would like to clone my existing install of OS X to a larger hard drive. I am going to be using CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) and was wondering if any members here have used this product to clone their installations?
Also is it possible to clone the partition and make it bootable from a new drive? Thanks so much for your help in advance.

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OS : Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
CPU : AMD Athlon II X4 645, 3.11 GHz
RAM : 4GB Crucial PC3/16000 DDR3
GPU : nVidia Geforce 210 1 Gig Full Hardware Acceleration
Sound : Onboard Audio Realtek ALC887
LAN: Sonnet Gigabit PCIe Ethernet Controller
Monitor : Acer S231HL 24" Wide Screen 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Htz
USB: Keyboard/Microsoft Confort Curve 2000 - Mouse/Logitech M185
Bluetooth: Apple Magic Tracpad/ DLink DBT 122 Bluetooth Dongle

if i was you, i would use Disk Utilities to do it, of course you will have to do it via boot-up disk, but once you have made an image of your currect OS X partition restored it to your new partition and installed Chameleon onto the new partition you are all set. this is how i have done it for almost a year now, works everytime for me

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iMac ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 ::: Intel Core2Duo 2.93GHz ::: NVIDIA Geforce GT 120 256MB ::: 4GB DDR3 RAM

Milanca Project ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 Retail ::: Vanilla Kernel ::: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz ::: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB ::: 4GB DDR2 RAM ::: GIGABYTE GA-EP35C-DS3R

I think that no matter what method you use to clone the partition, you would need to reinstall the bootloader (chameleon) after cloning.

Thanks guys, I managed to clone my installation using disk utilities several times trying to update Tiger. Alas none of the updates produced a usable OS. I did learn a great deal while experiencing some serious growing pains. Solaris was a much easier OS to manage than OS X. It has been several years since I tackled anything this complicated.
You guys are well versed in this area and I do appreciate all the help you have given me. Guess it is time to dig in the pockets and donate to the cause.

Again thanks for the support.

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OS : Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2
CPU : AMD Athlon II X4 645, 3.11 GHz
RAM : 4GB Crucial PC3/16000 DDR3
GPU : nVidia Geforce 210 1 Gig Full Hardware Acceleration
Sound : Onboard Audio Realtek ALC887
LAN: Sonnet Gigabit PCIe Ethernet Controller
Monitor : Acer S231HL 24" Wide Screen 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Htz
USB: Keyboard/Microsoft Confort Curve 2000 - Mouse/Logitech M185
Bluetooth: Apple Magic Tracpad/ DLink DBT 122 Bluetooth Dongle

I've got a simple guide on Cloning a complete byte2byte disk using dd with one usb linux distro..

you can see it here but it's in Hellenic (Greek)
http://www.infinitemac.com/f83/how-t...m-greek-t4981/
but you can translate it using translate.google.com with ease! :P

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