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cloning my hardrive to SSD connected via Firewire
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<blockquote data-quote="RadDave" data-source="post: 1583125" data-attributes="member: 234411"><p>Hi <strong>Boston</strong> - personally, I'm using CCC (I clone my MBPro & iMac to a 1 TB external HD w/ two partitions) - if you want a 'bootable' clone using one of the two programs mentioned, I would strongly suggest doing a complete clone, then if you have an internal drive failure you can boot into your exact configuration and/or use the cloned drive to load & duplicated a replacement one.</p><p></p><p>In general multiple levels of backups are desirable; for starters, do you use TM (Time Machine) backing to an external drive (however, TM will not boot)? If not, this would be the first suggestion. Then a 'cloned' bootable drive a next recommendation. Finally, for myself, I keep my 'personal files' (docs/music/pics) on an external SSD for my laptop & on Carbonite for my wife's iMac. </p><p></p><p>Hopefully others will 'chime in' w/ thoughts for what you might want to do w/ the SSD - good luck. Dave <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RadDave, post: 1583125, member: 234411"] Hi [B]Boston[/B] - personally, I'm using CCC (I clone my MBPro & iMac to a 1 TB external HD w/ two partitions) - if you want a 'bootable' clone using one of the two programs mentioned, I would strongly suggest doing a complete clone, then if you have an internal drive failure you can boot into your exact configuration and/or use the cloned drive to load & duplicated a replacement one. In general multiple levels of backups are desirable; for starters, do you use TM (Time Machine) backing to an external drive (however, TM will not boot)? If not, this would be the first suggestion. Then a 'cloned' bootable drive a next recommendation. Finally, for myself, I keep my 'personal files' (docs/music/pics) on an external SSD for my laptop & on Carbonite for my wife's iMac. Hopefully others will 'chime in' w/ thoughts for what you might want to do w/ the SSD - good luck. Dave :) [/QUOTE]
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