You are now ready to take action and order the cloning of your Mac disk! Then click the button Select origin and select the disk from your Mac.
Once Carbon Copy Cloner starts, you have to choose whether or not to activate automatic checking for updates (I recommend activating it), then click on the button try, wait 3 seconds and you will have access to the main screen of the software. If a security warning appears, respond open to follow The download is complete, open the archive zip containing the program, copy the program to the folder applications macOS and launch the software with a simple double click on its icon. To download the trial version of Carbon Copy Cloner, connected to the official website of the program and click on the button Download 30-day trial. It was paid for after being free for several years, in fact it costs 35,35 euros, but you can try it free for 30 days. I personally recommend you Carbon Copy Cloner, which is very simple to use and has few rivals in the Mac environment.Ĭarbon Copy Cloner is a popular application for macOS dedicated to cloning hard drives, thanks to which it is possible to copy the entire content of the hard drive from the PC to an external drive (or even an image file, if necessary) and get a boot disk perfectly identical to the original. If you want to clone the hard drive of your Mac to have a perfect copy, which will be used if necessary also instead of the original disc of the Pc, you must resort to the software to clone hard drives.
Clone mac hard drive disk utility mac os#
In the window that opens, type name you want to assign the disk (for example, backup disk) in the appropriate text field, configure the dropdown menu format en Extended Mac OS (registered), the drop-down menu scheme en GUID partition map and click on the button initialize to start formatting the disk.
Click the button initialize located in the upper center.
Select your name external hard drive from the Disk Utility sidebar.Select the article Show all devices of menu view (above).open Disk utility (you can find it in the folder more Launchpad or with a simple search in focus ).