- Hi all, So my friend has a macbook pro that has a failing hard drive. By using my windows PC, can I take her hard drive, boot into acronis recovery, and recover her old hard drive into a new hard drive? I know imaging isn't possible, but I should be able to clone it to a new hard disk and just pop the new hard disk into the mac book right?
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Introduction
Acronis Disk Director 12.5 Home is a disk and partition management tool. It has a rich and sophisticated set of operations ranging from creating and splitting volumes, to cloning disks, to restoring MBR and repairing file/folder structure. For a detailed list of operations, see the official documentation for Acronis Disk Director 12.5 Home. There are many alternatives to Acronis True Image for Mac if you are looking to replace it. The most popular Mac alternative is Clonezilla, which is both free and Open Source.If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Acronis True Image and 17 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Acronis Backup is the most advanced backup solution for local and remote Mac users. With enhanced backup validation and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary, Acronis Backup is the most reliable backup solution for your Macs on the market.
Acronis For Mac Os X
Using Acronis True Image 2019 and later you can duplicate all your data and make macOS bootable on your new hard drive via Disk Cloning. You can use this to migrate to a new Mac computer or to clone the system to an external HDD and have a bootable copy of the system.
Keep in mind the following limitations:
- Only an entire disk can be cloned, not selected partitions.
- Only entire disk can be selected as a destination.
- Fusion Drives are supported as a cloning source and/or destination starting from Acronis True Image 2019 Update 2 (Build 14610)
For more information about Disk Cloning Utility see product documentation.
Solution
To clone your Mac disk follow the steps below:
- If you have Parallels Desktop virtual machines running on your Mac, make sure that they are turned off.
- Make sure that the source and destination drives are connected to your Mac. If you need to connect another Mac, make sure that it is connected in target disk mode. Refer to product documentation for details.
- Open Acronis True Image. On the sidebar, click Disk Cloning
- By default, your internal system drive is pre-selected as a cloning source. If you want to change it, click the cloning source icon, and then select the drive that you want to clone.When you start the cloning operation, the destination drive will be formatted, and all of the data stored on it will be irreversibly erased. Make sure that the disk is empty or does not contain valuable data.
- Click Clone to start the cloning operation.
- If the destination disk contains data, Acronis True Image will ask for user confirmation to format the target disk. Click Format to proceed