Re: some questions about harddrive cloning please help kind regards trey.

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
While I'm not familiar with the particulars of how Disk Utility does it, most drives have a reserve of extra blocks that can be substituted if a bad spot develops. So by writing something to every block ahead of time, any bad blocks will get noticed and replaced with a spare. I would think

Re: some questions about harddrive cloning please help kind regards trey.

2013-12-30 Thread Cameron Strife
I've had great luck with super duper. On 12/30/13, trahern culver tecks-...@hotmail.co.uk 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

Re: some questions about harddrive cloning please help kind regards trey.

2013-12-30 Thread Kayaker
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

Re: some questions about harddrive cloning please help kind regards trey.

2013-12-30 Thread trahern culver
so what does it mean if a block is skipped? does it mean that things are not copied between hard rives? 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

some questions about harddrive cloning please help kind regards trey.

2013-12-29 Thread trahern culver
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