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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Apples offer to replace my HD
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<blockquote data-quote="techiesteve" data-source="post: 1487324" data-attributes="member: 98520"><p>Whatever external drive you purchase for your backup you do not need to partition it into 2, that would only be required if you have a Boot Camp partition, you are using Parallels. Carbon Copy Cloner will clone the whole hard drive, including your Windows that resides in your Documents folder.</p><p></p><p>In Carbon Copy Cloner the option to clone the Recovery Partition is found under the Window drop down menu in Disk Center.</p><p></p><p>Apple's Time Machine software will copy your complete hard drive, but sometimes can fail to restore. You have no way of knowing this until you attempt a restore. With a cloned drive you can boot from it to verify it is working.</p><p></p><p>There are many reputable external hard drives, Seagate and Western Digital are 2.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="techiesteve, post: 1487324, member: 98520"] Whatever external drive you purchase for your backup you do not need to partition it into 2, that would only be required if you have a Boot Camp partition, you are using Parallels. Carbon Copy Cloner will clone the whole hard drive, including your Windows that resides in your Documents folder. In Carbon Copy Cloner the option to clone the Recovery Partition is found under the Window drop down menu in Disk Center. Apple's Time Machine software will copy your complete hard drive, but sometimes can fail to restore. You have no way of knowing this until you attempt a restore. With a cloned drive you can boot from it to verify it is working. There are many reputable external hard drives, Seagate and Western Digital are 2. [/QUOTE]
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