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HDClone Review – Cloning A Windows Virtual Drive

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

HDClone is a utility for cloning physical or logical drives.  Cloning is the process of copying the exact contents of one drive to another.  Although the drives themselves may be different, various sizes (the target drive cannot be smaller), partition schemas, drive types (i.e. IDE, SATA, SATAII), the data from the source drive will be duplicated exactly on the second drive.

Cloning is an excellent method of creating bootable backups which will indeed suffice to allow the direct replacement of one drive with another, thus allowing booting up to an exact representation of the original drive from the cloned one.  Cloning is also an excellent approach to drive upgrade.

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How To Upgrade Your MacBook Hard Drive – Part 2

Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

I left off in Hard Drive Upgrade with an external drive prepared and ready to receive an image of my existing primary drive.  That article discussed backup strategies, a list of items needed in order to perform the data migration and what is needed in order to get started. We then stepped through the process of formatting and partitioning an external drive.

In this article, we are going to go through the process of using SuperDuper.

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