Clone FAIL
Hi all. I just bought Acronis yesterday and I'm trying to put a new 6 TB hard drive in my Mac, which has a 640 GB drive in it currently. I took out the old drive and tried cloning it. I have a four port drive duplicator. The actual process seemed to go fine but when I put the new drive in the Mac, all I got was the file folder with the flashing question mark. It couldn't find the OS on the new drive. The method of duplication I used was to use the entire new drive and expand the partitions accordingly. Well, that obviously didn't work. So, I put the old drive back in and it boots up fine (that the Lord for that).
Now, aside from the fact that the pinned post here said NOT to clone (I didn't find this forum until after the fact), I didn't lose any data but now I'm back to square one. Should I do a low level format of the new drive to wipe out whatever it MIGHT have on it from my attempted cloning or what? I've never done this before so forgive me for my ignorance.
Thanks in advance!
Mike


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Hi Steve,
Thanks for responding. I have the latest version (installed on a Windows machine). Not being real familiar with this, I assumed that when it was cloning, it was doing exactly that....just copying one drive contents to another.
If it's not a part of the Mac version, how then does one clone a Mac drive???
Thanks!
Mike
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Mike, there are limitations for what ATIH can clone as documented in the ATIH 2017 FAQ document - see the section on Cloning which has links to further resources on this same subject.
How your Mac drive is formatted / partitioned can determine whether the Windows ATIH can clone it - see the ATIH 2017 User Guide:
Supported file systems
- FAT16/32
- NTFS
- Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 *
- ReiserFS *
Note: ReiserFS partitions and disks cannot be backed up to Acronis Cloud.
- Linux SWAP *
* The Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup/recovery operations. You cannot use Acronis True Image 2017 for file-level operations with these file systems (file backup, recovery, search, as well as image mounting and file recovering from images). You also cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with these file systems.
If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image 2017 can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach.
Note that there is no support for such as the exFAT file system, nor for dynamic volumes.
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Mike, from doing further searches in Google it seems your question has been asked lots of times and most answers are to do the cloning from the Mac OS using the tools available there, but from what I understand Acronis (& Windows) cannot clone your Mac drive because of the HFS+ formatting used on the Mac.
If you want an alternative, then take a look at Clonezilla which says that it can do what you want by using their Clonezilla Live boot media which you can download as an ISO (for CD) or Zip to write to USB stick.
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Thank you very much, Steve! I've been researching it as well and have been reading the FAQ pages. I also saw Clonezilla come up in some other forums I was checking in. I'll give that a shot. Just an FYI, after attemping the cloning of that iMac drive (it is the HFS+ format), the new drive was not recognizable by my Mac, my Windows machine, or my Linux box. I would have thought for sure that I'd see it with my Linux machine because the Mac uses a Linux kernel. Such is life. I am attempting to do a low-level format of the drive in hopes that I can make it "new" again and then try either Clonezilla or the procedure I read here in the Mac FAQ. Here's hoping!!
Mike
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Mike, good luck with the things you are trying, hope they work out successfully for you.
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