Hi, The two options are Super Duper and Carbon Copy Cloner. Both interfaces are very accessible and easy to use. I give Carbon Copy Cloner the edge, but I also used to give Super Duper the edge many years ago.
As for how it works, you need to provide an administrator password before you start the copy process. That way, it can run as admin and avoid any permissions issues. The copy process does no harm to your drive beyond normal wear and tear. I do suggest you format a new drive with Disk Utility and enable the security option to do a one pass write with zeros. This forces the drive to actually write something to any block, thus if an error is detected, that block will be skipped. An application like Drive Genius can do the same step and will report how many bad blocks it finds. —k On Dec 30, 2013, at 12:49 AM, trahern culver <[email protected]> wrote: > hey all i have some questions about harddrive cloning. > > ffirstly whatt's the best prrogram to clone your harddrive with? > > secondly is there any situation in which harddrives may become damaged during > cloning? and how can i provent this? > > thirdly how does the cloning process handle any files on your drive that are > locked or can only be red? > > your help with these questions would be most welcome kind regards trey. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
