Mac OS X
Q: Cloning with Disk Utility (10.11), how reliable is it? Can you trust its verify?
I cloned a 4TB with some bad sectors (according to DriveDx) to a new 4TB. The drive verified successfully. Can I trust the contents of the new drive? If the drive verified does that mean that the bad sectors were readable, or just that Disk Utility copied corrupted data "successfully".
Another thing, when I booted up the computer, Time Machine didn't recognise that the the new drive was a clone of the previous one and deleted all backups of the previous drive (nice one Time Machine)...so now, the only two copies of my entire life's work are these two 4TBs...
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), 16GB
Posted on Sep 2, 2016 6:53 AM