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clone my hard drive over a network onto a PC hard drive?
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so before i bring my powerbook in to the apple store for a possible repair i want to backup/clone my entire hard drive onto my PC hard drive (preferrably a bootable clone). carbon copy cloner has been mentioned but looking at the features it doesnt support cloning over network. can anybody offer any suggestions?
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It's a good idea to backup your hard drive before giving the machine to Apple. but I don't think you can make a bootable clone onto a PC hard drive. Since the Powerbook is portable I think your best best would be to find a friend with a Mac, boot your your machine into Firewire disk mode, plug it into your friend's Mac, and clone it there.
Chris
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too bad all my friends are pc users. there has to be a way to do this. i was thinking using my ipod and then use a pc to clone my ipod, but the ipod is also FAT32 formatted and its capacity is too small (15 gb, and the hard drive is some 60 gb)
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Just to make clear, it doesn't matter how big your PowerBook hard drive is. If you are only using 10GB of it then you can clone it onto your iPod (please don't be insulted if you knew that, just wanted to make sure).
I haven't tried this, but I think it would work. Network your PowerBook to the PC (I wouldn't use wireless for this, 60GB is a lot to move over wireless), use Disk Utility to make an image on the PC (use a sparse disk image so the image is only as large as it needs to be. i.e. 40 GB of data results in a 40 GB file, regardless of how large you designate the image to be). Open the Disk Image and have CCC clone onto the image.
-- Jason
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great, it looks like it'll work.
thanks
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Originally posted by jasong:
I haven't tried this, but I think it would work. Network your PowerBook to the PC (I wouldn't use wireless for this, 60GB is a lot to move over wireless), use Disk Utility to make an image on the PC (use a sparse disk image so the image is only as large as it needs to be. i.e. 40 GB of data results in a 40 GB file, regardless of how large you designate the image to be). Open the Disk Image and have CCC clone onto the image.
-- Jason
Yes, I think the image is the way to go. As the others point out, you'll lose filenames, permissions, etc. otherwise.
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