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New Hard Drive
Hey guys, I got a new hard drive, can I clone my current hard drive to the new one? will it clone everything including bootloader\hidden EFI partition?
I'm running: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Chameleon RC3 thanks guys |
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if you use a utiltiy like hdclone then yes this a sector for sector copy
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You can also create a partition on the new HD and copy the content using the Disk Utility but this will force you to install your prefered bootloader on the new HD again.
If you want to clone the hole partition table, I would just use dd. AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
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Using dd (or any other byte-for-byte exact copy) has several drawbacks:
Overall, IMHO it's better to use Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, or something similar to move a system from one hard disk to another. I've done precisely this with Carbon Copy Cloner many times. These utilities can not be relied upon to copy the boot loader from the original disk's MBR to the new disk's MBR, though. For that, either use dd or be prepared to boot using the boot loader on the new disk or an emergency optical disc to boot the system and then re-install your boot loader. To use dd, the following command should work, assuming the original disk is /dev/disk0 and the new disk is /dev/disk1: Code:
dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=440 count=1 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. |