A menu will pop up showing all the drives you have available: To select each drive, click on the inner grey box. You need to identify the Source drive, the Destination drive, and specify whether you want to specify All files (which is the choice you want) before you proceed. One really nice feature of this shareware utility is that you can use its full feature set without paying for a license, perfect if you’re only going to clone a single drive and be done with drive management for years to come (though it does have some interesting additional backup and mirroring capabilities worth reading about before you decide it’s just a data copy tool)Ĭlick on “ Trial” to proceed this time, however. To start, download a copy from and fire it up! Let me show you how it worked, step by step… That involved copying over almost 650GB of data, so however fast the computer was running, it was not exactly a speedy process.īut it was easy. My favorite of them is the aptly named Carbon Copy Cloner, a program designed specifically to make it easy to do exactly what you’re talking about, make an exact copy of your existing hard drive.įor a test of an OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro 1TB external drive I used CCC, as it’s known, to make a copy of an existing 1TB external drive so that I could use the new drive as a boot disk. There are a lot of ways you can copy one drive’s content onto another drive in the Mac OS X world, including the mainstay of all disk management, Disk Utility, located in the Utilities folder within your Applications folder, but there are third party apps worth exploring too.
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