How to create an emergency bootable drive or clone of your Mac before it crash?

Here, in this article we have explained about the process of creating emergency flash drive or bootable clone of your Mac drive. It will be an important topic for all the Mac users who are concern about their data safety.

However there have been a lot of articles on web describing the same thing, but here is something you find complete, easy and reliable information. This is because of the reason we have created it after a good amount of research on Mac technology and  applications. 

So, we come to the conclusion by providing you the best possible and easy process for creating emergency flash drives for the data prevention purpose.

Process to create an emergency drive:

This emergency drive contains only those files which are required to boot your Mac machine and able to run troubleshooting utilities such as Disk Utility. 

Creating emergency drive using Recovery Disk Assistant method: 

Apple’s Recovery disk assistant tool is easy to use, the only requirement to be able to work is to have Recovery HD on your Mac's hard drive.

What is Recovery HD?
 

"Recovery HD is a hidden partition installed automatically at the time of installation of Mac OS X lion and mountain lion only." 

So, in above para, I called this partition hidden, it doesn't mean that we can't access it. One can access recovery HD or can check it by holding down Command-R or the Option key during restarting of your Mac drive.  A screen appear showing you all connected boot drives with Recovery HD as one of your option. 
It is important to note here that to be able to create emergency drive on an external device you need to have a partition on your Mac drive.
It is probably because the recovery disk assistant requires the data on the partition to create the external drive. In the absence of partition or corrupt, you'll see an error.

Steps to create emergency drive using recovery disk assistant:

Step1 : From Apple’s Support site download the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant. Step2 : Connect your USB flash drive to your Mac.
Step3 : After launching OS X Recovery Disk Assistant, select your connected USB drive.
Step4 : Follow the on-screen prompt messages. This is a quick and easy process.

Cases when Recovery Disk assistant method will not work:

·        If your startup drive is lacking with recovery HD partition.

·         In some cases, an assistant-created drive will work only with Mac specified versions that made it. But, fortunately we have another method to create an emergency flash drive using disk utility and third party application.

In my next article, I will explain the method of creating Mac bootable dvd using disk utility and its alternatives.

Here, I want to discuss alternative of recovery disk assistant method that with an application independent of OS X version your Mac has. This application is known as Stellar Drive Clone software, a sought after application for its cloning, imaging and backups features. You can create emergency drive in few clicks.

It is compatible with OS X 10.3 and later versions. It supports ExFat, MBR, Fat32 file system. It means you can create clone of windows partition on your Mac drive. Its latest 2.5 version support SSD. It has an exceptional feature of creating minimal system that means emergency boot drive. By selecting minimal system under tools tab it gives bootable clone of your Mac drive within few steps by copying only default apps.