Cloning with iclone???

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Cloning with iclone???

Can some one point me in the right direction for cloning a Hdd? Do i need some software. Is there a program called iclone somewhere on my computer?

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.5.3), 2.8 (8X)...10GB Ram...320GB HDD

Posted on Jul 14, 2008 6:55 PM

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The hatter

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Jul 15, 2008 4:23 AM in response to Damballa

http://www.bombich.com/software - Carbon Copy Cloner
www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html - SuperDuper

those are the two most popular. And there are others, just Google Mac clone or check download sites like http://www.macupdate.com

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fuzzydog

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Jul 17, 2008 5:44 PM in response to Damballa

I've used both superduper! and cc cloner. I ended up sticking with superduper as it as an option of automatically sleeping or shutting down the machine after the clone has run. I do one nightly and have had good results with it for many years. They are VERY responsive in terms of customer service and respond very promptly to emails.

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Jul 14, 2008 11:15 PM in response to Damballa

Try PsyncX. It can clone your entire drive including the current running OS.

http://psyncx.sourceforge.net/

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Damballa Author

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Jul 15, 2008 3:08 PM in response to The hatter

OK I beleive I cloned the Hdd. I used SuperDuper. It took about an hour or so to do a 320 GB Hdd.
Now the next step is what? Do I use bootcamp to install my new Vista to my old Hdd? that is what I want to do. I just dont want to do this and then try to boot from my Mac side and find that I cant boot and its gone...
What next???

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Damballa Author

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Jul 16, 2008 9:43 AM in response to Damballa

well Im back. That was suprisingly easy.

You dont see many posts like that huh?

I do have a few misc questions tho...
Like Itunes. Id like to have itunes on my Vista side. How can i get my library off my Mac formatted ipod so I can at least listen to my music whilst Im on the Vista side of my Computer?
And about file transfering. If im using bootcamp what is the best method? I have more files Id like transfered than could fit on a buttload of dvds. Mostly music/wav files for Pro Tools. How can i get them copied over quickly and easily?
Thanks

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The hatter

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Jul 18, 2008 4:34 AM in response to Damballa

FW400 disk drive with MacFUSE 3G to write to NTFS from Mac side if you can't devote an internal drive or partition, or don't have a PCI controller for SATA that you can use to connect an external SATA drive (which really is ideal).

MacDrive7 supports read/write from Windows to HFS+ partitions.

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