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There are plenty of ways to clone your older hard drive to your new hard drive. Laptop models - you may want to format and do the cloning process with the new hard drive inside of an enclosure before opening up your computer. If you purchased the Universal Drive Adapter, you already have the tools required for your laptop model computer. Tower models - you can install the hard drive inside of the computer without taking out the older one you will not require an enclosure. Note: Older Macs using ATA type drives may require you to configure the new drive as 'slave' using the drive's jumper(s).

After you install the new hard drive, you will need to boot to your old hard drive. If you have an external enclosure for the old hard drive, you will plug that in via Firewire or USB, (Note: USB is only a bootable option on Intel Macs) then turn on your computer while holding down the Option key on your keyboard. This will give you a boot menu that looks like the picture to the left. Click on your old hard drive to start the booting process, and your Mac will start up normally after that.

Formatting the new hard drive will be the next step you will need to take to add a volume to the drive. Here is an instruction guide for the formatting process. http://www.newertech.com/tech_support/manuals/HDDppcintelformat/HDDppcintelformat.php

There are many cloning programs out there. All are similar in cloning ability, but others may offer additional functions you may find useful. Some of the more popular ones are...

Features of Stellar Drive Clone. It helps you clone Macintosh HD, Recovery HD, and Local Volumes to another hard drive, network drive, volume, or a folder. You can clone Mac hard drive to SSD and vice versa. With disk image feature, you can create a snapshot of your hard drive ignoring unused file space and any bad sectors. Introduction Using Acronis True Image 2019 and later you can duplicate all your data and make macOS bootable on your new hard drive via Disk Cloning. You can use this to migrate to a new Mac computer or to clone the system to an external HDD and have a bootable copy of the system. Keep in mind the following limitations. Acronisreplicates a computer's operating system, software, patches, and drives.

1. Apple's Disk Utility (included with OSX, located in Applications > Utilities folder)
2. Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com/
3. Prosoft's Data Backup 3 http://www.prosofteng.com/ These three in particular are explained below.

Disk Utility does have the ability to clone your hard drives just as well as any other software out there. All you will need to do is...

1. Select your new volume (indented) and click on the 'Restore' tab.
2. Drag your old volume to the Source field.
3. Drag your new hard drive to the Destination field.
4. Click the check box for 'Erasing Destination'.
5. Click restore at the bottom and it then will start copying over to your new hard drive.

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If you purchased our OWC On-The-Go DIY kit, you received a free copy of Prosoft's Data Backup 3. (OWC Express DIY kits do not contain free software, see CarbonCopyCloner instructions below) This will help you easily clone your old hard drive to your new hard drive. Open Prosoft's Data Backup.

1. Click on 'Show Backup Options' to expand the drop down menu.
2. Select 'Backup Type', then select 'Clone'.
3. Click the check box 'Do Complete Scan'.
4. Click on the '+' symbol under 'Sources' and select your old hard drive from the 'Devices' list in the Finder window.
5. Select your destination (your new hard drive) from the 'Devices' list in the Finder window.
6. To finish, click 'Start Now'.

Carbon Copy Cloner is a great cloning tool for creating a backup or copy of your hard drive. (Download Here)

1. Select your Source Disk (your old hard drive).
2. Select your Target Disk (your new hard drive).
3. Under cloning options, select Backup everything.
4. Just click Clone, and you're done.

To do this, restart the computer and hold the 'Option' key on your keyboard to load up the boot menu. You should see your old hard drive and your new hard drive as bootable drives. If you do not see the new hard drive, you will need to do the cloning process again. If you do see the new hard drive, click on it. Your Mac will boot into it and you will get your desktop. This will verify that your hard drive has cloned successfully. Before reformatting/erasing your old hard drive, you will want to verify the cloning processes was a successful, as well as being certain your new clone works exactly like your old hard drive. Be sure to include checking your applications, data files, etc.

Winclone is a program for cloning your Boot Camp partition. http://twocanoes.com/winclone/

1. Select your Boot Camp volume as 'Source'.
2. Click 'Image...' at the bottom of the window. This will prompt you on where you want to save the image.
3. Save it to your desktop or an external hard drive.

4. Click on the 'Restore' tab, and select the image file you've just created.
5. Select the destination to be your new Boot Camp partition.
6. Click 'Restore'. It will start expanding & copying your Windows files to the new hard drive.

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Clone of hard drive saves your precious data under physical/logical disk failure..

Your hard drive may be new or probably from the best manufacturer, but you can never guaranty “It won’t fail”. Apart from being old, there are lots many other reasons including mechanical, electrical and firmware failure, which can make your Mac hard drive crash. If the drive with many of your extremely important business documents and personal files fail, the loss is simply beyond explanation. However, you can easily overcome such situations of data loss by keeping a clone copy of your Mac hard drive.

Disk Utility can clone your Mac hard drive.

Apple is indeed right in its saying that the Mac OS X has been built with all the amenities that a user requires for his/her daily computer use. For keeping a safe copy of your precious data in the Mac hard drive, Apple has included an option in Disk Utility – ‘Restore’. This option in Disk Utility allows you to copy the entire data of your hard disk to another hard drive or any external media. With this ‘Restore’ option, you can also restore data from any previously created disk image stored on your local drive or any network-attached media.

The process of backing up data using Disk Utility is simple and can be performed in few easy steps as below:

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How to Clone Mac Drive using ‘Restore’ Option of Disk Utility:

Go to the Utilities folder and run Disk Utility.
Click on the tab, ‘Erase’.
From the left side pane, select the media, which you want as your backup or destination drive.
From the ‘Format’ drop down select the format type as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Click the ‘Erase’ button and wait patiently for some time to remount the drive on the Desktop.
From Disk Utility main window, click the ‘Restore’ tab.
From the left pane of the interface, select the source drive to be cloned by dragging it to the ‘Source’ entry field.
Similarly, from the left pane select the backup or destination media by dragging it to the ‘Destination’ entry field.
From the desktop of your Mac, select the destination drive icon and execute the command – ‘COMMAND-I’ to open the ‘Get Info’ window. Here, ensure that under the ‘Ownership and Permissions’ section, the box ‘Ignore Permissions on this Volume’ is unchecked.
Now, from the Disk Utility main window, click the ‘Restore’ button.

Note: The backup copy created using Disk Utility is not bootable. This Backup copy is a disk image from which you can easily restore the entire data of your source Mac drive. However, if you want to create a bootable clone of your Mac hard drive, you can use Stellar Drive Clone software.

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Stellar Drive Clone is a Mac Hard Drive Cloning software, using which you can create an exact clone of your Mac hard drive so that in case of drive failure, you can continue your on-going works by booting from the same. Along with this, this utility provides options to create clone or image of Mac volumes as well as selected region of your hard drive.

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* Download Free Demo version to check Cloning, Imaging, Restore, Backup features. Register the software to use its full features.