Clone Mac Drive using Stellar Drive Clone

Cloning a Mac hard drive not only ensures that the hard is backed up, but that you can use the clone of the hard drive as an alternative to the current boot drive anytime. However, the process requires another hard drive to be attached to the Mac machine in order to save the clone successfully. 

Disk Utility in Mac OS X facilitates cloning the complete Mac hard drive, but the users are often seen complaining Disk Utility is hard to work with. Then why to toil for something that is known for not resulting productively? In such situations, the user certainly wishes for a software that can work the way he wants. After all, nobody wants to lose his essential data. 

Although cloning the complete Mac hard drive is sophisticated and time-consuming, but with Stellar Drive Clone software the process of cloning Mac drive becomes much simplified and productive. Apart from cloning the complete hard drive, this software also facilitates imaging the complete hard drive as well as the individual volumes, creating a bootable DVD using current boot volume, restoring a volume, and much more. Most importantly, user does not have to sit around until the process is completed successfully. Let us go through the steps involved in the process of hard drive cloning using Stellar Drive Clone:

Attach an external hard drive with either equal or greater size as compared to the current boot drive, and let the system detect it.

• Launch Stellar Drive Clone.
• On the home screen, select the Clone module in the left pane. On the right, choose the option ‘Clone Drive’.
• Choose your current boot drive as the source drive in the Select Source window.
• Select the external hard drive as the target drive in the Select Destination window.
• Click Continue to start the process.
  
  

  

  
  

Note 1: A dialog box appears asking you to choose the cloning option. For efficient use of disk space, select ‘Resize volume(s) on destination drive’. 

Note 2: Before the process to clone your Mac is started, Stellar Drive Clone software formats the destination drive. Make sure the destination drive does not contain your essential data.

Once the cloning is finished, boot from the clone drive to check whether the process was completed successfully. If you are able to boot from the clone drive, cloning was successful. Now, you can use the clone drive as an alternative to your current boot drive.

In addition, Stellar Drive Clone supports HFS, HFS+, FAT, and exFAT based Mac volumes. Therefore, you can also clone a USB flash drive (i.e. Pen drive). The software also works efficiently on volumes with Master Boot Record as the Partition Map Scheme.