Disk Utility was at version 16.0 at the time of this writing, so there have certainly been more than two versions. Click Restore… Tech Tip: How to Use the Restore Feature of Disk Utility to Clone a Drive, Ten Years Later: Schiller Talks Launch of ‘Earth-Shattering’ iPhone, 5 Reasons Cloud Content Management Is the Ultimate Collaboration Solution, How to Use the Revamped Notification Center in macOS Big Sur, LAMP & WordPress on a Reused, Recycled Mac mini Server, How to Use the New Control Center in macOS Big Sur, 2020 Holiday Specials & Shipping Cutoffs @ MacSales.com, Ilan Rubin on Making Music and The Importance of Time, Envoy Pro Elektron: How to Use an External SSD With an iPad Pro, Envoy Pro Elektron: Fast & Tough Mini-Sized USB-C Bus-Powered SSD. Provided the source for the clone was a bootable startup drive, then the destination will generally also be useable as a bootable startup drive, which is pretty darned convenient. Using Restore With OS X Yosemite and Earlier We’ll cover exactly how to … Not sure what DU would do in this instance. You can also drag a volume mounted on your Desktop to the Destination field. When the scan is complete, click the Done button. Hower Disk Utility won’t let me restore. Open Time Machine to get a copy of the pre-“El Capitan” Disk Utility: Go to the Utilities folder (or simply press Command + Shift + U) Browse back in time to a backup before you installed El Capitan. Because of that major change, we’re going to provide two sets of instructions for using Disk Utility’s Restore feature; one for OS X Yosemite and earlier, and one for OS X El Capitan and later. Generally, if the image file uses the compressed format it should sail through the scan process. This may seem like an inconvenience, but it provides for both a fast copy and a safe one; since the source drive can be unmounted, no process can make changes to any files resident on the drive. The results are almost an exact copy of the original.
To learn more, click here.By continuing to use our site, you accept our use of Cookies, Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. and contains the information necessary to return the computer's hard drive to its original factory configuration. Move this volume to destination and click restore. You can restore a volume from another volume. In Disk Utility’s sidebar, select the destination volume you wish to have data copied to. WARNING: When you restore one volume to another, all the files on the destination volume are erased. Today I tried to clone the information the whole “Macintosh HD” disk which is in the original 128GB SSD to the new SSD of 440GB. Would you recommend using Disk Utility to do this instead? Warning: The selected destination volume will be erased by the next step. Two Versions of Disk Utility Sorry, no answer but Ive got the same problem. Say for instance you chose a volume that had two partitions: one had the data you wanted to use, and the other partition had other documents. A sheet will drop down, asking you to select the source volume. We often think of this as cloning a drive, so you have an exact copy for backup or archiving purposes. The restore function isn’t limited to creating clones of the startup drive. If Disk Utility isn’t open, click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, type Disk Utility in the Search field, then click the Disk Utility icon . Restoring From an Image File (Any Version of Disk Utility) 29.11.2009 #1 Kleine Frage... Ich hab ein SicherheitsImage von einer dvd gezogen und will die nun über disk U wieder brennen. Dear PC, We Have Arrived. Btw, I used the Restore option when holding down the Option key and powering on. That makes the restore function extremely versatile, even if it’s largely overlooked in Disk Utility. In spite of doing it in the recovery mode, in spite of previously formating the new SSD to make it compatible with mac and following al the steps, there was an error “5342” so I couldn’t make this clone copy from the Macintosh HD to the new SSD. The earlier version of Disk Utility uses a slightly different user interface. New Post Notifications
Thread Starter Mitglied seit 15.11.2009 Beiträge 77. Mit dem Festplattendienstprogramm auf dem Mac lassen sich interne und externe Speichergeräte verwalten. Click Disk Utility when in macOS Recovery.