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How do you clone a MBP Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1504526" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>Glad you found that useful. The need to do a full clone each time means Disk Utility is not as useful in some ways as the other programs mentioned but since Time Machine is handling most of the backup chore I don't clone as often as I used to.</p><p></p><p>One thing to be aware of though. It is not a major issue for me but might be for others. AFAIK Disk Utility does not clone the recovery partition that came into being with 10.7 and higher. Not a major issue if you keep a reasonably current clone since you can boot from the clone to perform repairs. </p><p></p><p>BTW if you have not already done so boot from the clone at least once to make sure things appear OK. I have had one clone not work properly and I did not discover this until I needed it for a repair. Don't remember which program I used for that one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1504526, member: 131855"] Glad you found that useful. The need to do a full clone each time means Disk Utility is not as useful in some ways as the other programs mentioned but since Time Machine is handling most of the backup chore I don't clone as often as I used to. One thing to be aware of though. It is not a major issue for me but might be for others. AFAIK Disk Utility does not clone the recovery partition that came into being with 10.7 and higher. Not a major issue if you keep a reasonably current clone since you can boot from the clone to perform repairs. BTW if you have not already done so boot from the clone at least once to make sure things appear OK. I have had one clone not work properly and I did not discover this until I needed it for a repair. Don't remember which program I used for that one. [/QUOTE]
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