![]() ![]() I left it on and went off to the supermarket. Using the same dongle with my power and external hard drive connected through it. ![]() So today I give SuperDuper a go for the first time. The dongle works again as long as I restart the MacBook. So did CCC actually finish the task 16 hours both times, or did it say task complete because the dongle seems to fail around 16 hours and just ejected the drive? I couldn't be sure and didn't want to risk it, and I didn't want to shell out £70 for the official apple dongle just in case it made no difference. So I attempted CCC again, and CCC completed the task at around the 16 hour mark, but the drives were ejected and wasn't charging again. I'd have to restart my MacBook for the dongle to work again. However I couldn't really trust CCC saying this because the dongle seems to break after 16 hours of continuous use, because both drives would be ejected and the MacBook would no longer be charging. So I'd leave the backup running, a full fresh one, next day when I would wake up, the backup supposedly completed successfully after 16 hours. Then I bought a 3rd party imitation HDMI/USB/Power dongle from curry's in the UK for £30 so I could power and backup to my external Sandisk SSD (it came with an adapter to change usb-c to USB so I could use it in this dongle). Now when I tried to CCC my drive to my backup drive via battery, my power would die before the backup would complete. The problem being now is I sold that MacBook Pro to my brother, and only recently got a MacBook 2017, which has 1 port. Sharing is also good.So in the past when I had a MacBook Pro 2016 with two usb-c ports this wouldn't have been a problem. I'm just trying to pay it forward if possible. MANY people on this site have helped me over the last few years. Cloning everything but the boot block & then having to dd that to the new drive or something can be tricky. I just had to add my 2 cents (as we say in the US) worth. No matter what software you use, there's NO WAY to undo the cloning process. Cloning your blank HDD to your good HackintoshHD will result in two blank discs & REALLY **** you off, so BE CAREFUL. Your system can boot up with other setups & it's usually possible to change your hard drive boot order in your BIOS too, but DON'T. I ALWAYS make use my boot drive is "Disk 0" & the other drive is "Disk 1". JUST choose the defaults all the way through AND set up your hard drives correctly in the BIOS first. It IS made for the more "LINUX Geek" types though, so there are lots of choices for things to get off & cause problems. Once the disc is burnt & you're ready to clone your hard drive, you just need to remember which disc is which. I used the Ubunitu 64-bit "alternative stable release" & chose ISO. Just remember that underneath our cool looking Desktop beats a heart of UNIX/LINUX. Clonezilla is open source so they keep coming out with new versions all the time & there's a 32-bit & 64-bit version made with Ubuntu LINUX & the same from Debian LINUX, so it can be a bit confusing if you're no a UNIX/LINUX geek & you're just looking for something that works on a Mac. I think it's a bit faster because it calculates the bland space on the disc & knows it doesn't have to copy it to the other drive. I used Clonezilla on my last clone & it took a little over 2 hours to do a 1.5TB disc, that has 3 slices. It is LINUX based, is free for individual use & can be found here: I promise) for home use & they make a whole line of Professional IT, server type software too. These guys make a whole line of free stuff (I don't work for them OR get any commission. I've been using it for years without any problems. There are also instructions on how to make a bootable CD/DVD so you can make a true Clone of any disc. I've used it MANY times on my Mac, my Hackintosh (that I built with help from the site we're on) & Linux HDD too. I use their Windows Products for my Windows systems & their version that says "copy any File system" does just that. Not just almost clone the disc.ĮaseUS Disk-Copy is free for home use. It does a sector by sector copy of the disc, a true clone of the disc: give you an EXACT copy of the original disc. It may take a bit longer to do the whole disc booting from a CD, but when you're done, you're done. I use EaseUS "Disk-Copy", but there are a few others that one can burn to a bootable CD/DVD & use that way. The thing to do then is to boot from something else & truly "clone" the drives. The problem is most likely that the since the system is up & fully running, it can't copy the boot block. Here are a couple of other apps that I've used that work great too.Īs a long time engineer with a few years of disc cloning experience, UNIX experience & as a user on the tonymacx86 site, I have to say that "technically" if you're not getting the boot block you're not actually cloning the disc. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide ![]()
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