partition and bootable clone

i have 2 partitions on a drive, one is full and the other have enough space to countain my clone. Will my clone will be bootable doing this ? (considering i used good format..)

Posted on Mar 26, 2015 5:15 AM

Mar 26, 2015 4:47 PM in response to skanner21

I can not guess what cloning utility. Each cloning utility has a different interface. You really need to give more information, and we do not really like playing "20 Questions". Please help us, help you.

I have access to Disk Utility (part of Mac OS X), SuperDuper(free for a full clone), and Carbon Copy Cloner (1 month demo with all features enabled).

And since you are talking about a PowerPC based system, it is possibly an older release of the utility, whatever it is.

I speciffy a folder i created inside one of an APM partition

No matter what utility you are using, you cannot create a bootable clone unless the clone can put the files where it wants, and inside a sub-directory is not going to work. The bootable system needs to have the /System and /Library and /usr, and /private, and /bin, etc... directories in the root directory (that is the highest level directory on the file system, / also know as the root, as if the root of the file system).

Depending on the cloning utility it may have an option to keep files that already exist on the disk, or an option to reformat the disk and throw away stuff already on the disk, or other options relating to the disk and the existing contents.

But if anyone is going to help, you have to tell them the cloning utility, and considering this is from a PowerPC Mac, what version of the utility so they have a chance of helping.