Create a Bootable Clone Backup Drive [Mac How to]

Author: David A. Cox
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Want to create a bootable clone of your Mac hard drive? This is a great option as a secondary backup so that when your hard drive fails, you're not dead in the water. In this tutorial video, David shows you how to use Carbon Copy Cloner along with an external hard drive to protect your data. Get Carbon Copy Cloner: http://bombich.com Need an external hard drive? Here's the ones we recommend: http://PCClassesOnline.com/store (go under "Mac backup Drives") Take our free classes at http://PCClassesOnline.com

Comments

  1. thank you for taking the extra time to be specific its what i needed
  2. Thanks for saying how to boot from the backup!
  3. Scrolling through video timeline and randomly got to 2:15 and heard "bich"
  4. EXCELLENT!! Thank you so much.
  5. understood however how do you actually restore to another drive?
  6. Tutorial is outdated, they changed the whole layout ffs
  7. sir, its a request. can u make a video to show how to run visual studio on mac??
  8. I hope Carbon Copy Cloner works on an older G5 machine, circa 2005.
  9. will my Adobe programs work from the clone? I saw in another video that they will ask for registration yet again.
  10. Thanks! you've been of great help!
  11. Can the clone be used for a different mac?
  12. you just earned a sub 
  13. i would give 1000000 likes if i could. this is the only way that has worked for me!!!!!!!!!!

    Thanks soooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  14. Saved my life thank you for the video! SUBSCRIBED!
  15. Can I take that external HD and replace it with the original internal drive?
  16. The hard drive on my mac is old and I want to switch everything over to a new one and boot from there every time, what is the process for this?
  17. awesome
  18. Hi, I would like to do this because my internal HDD is dying... So, I make the bootable back up, change the internal drive,and then how do I restore the
    Is external bootable backup to the new internal drive? The same way? Thanks in advanced!
  19. Great video! Thank you! Important question: Can I format my HDD for multiple partitions and use one of those for a bootable clone? Or does it have to be a dedicated HDD?
  20. As Always, You're Awesome! Thank you for this information. I am replacing my original MacBook Pro hard drive with a 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD, so this information is invaluable! Thank You!