Carbon Copy Cloner Snow Leopard

30-04-2021 admin

Carbon Copy Cloner Snow Leopard Pro

Launch Carbon Copy Cloner. In the window that appears choose the old Mac’s startup volume (Macintosh HD, for example) from the Source pop-up menu. From the Destination pop-up menu choose the new.

Carbon Copy Cloner. Except that it wasn’t an unalloyed success. Yes, I had a running Snow Leopard install, and yes, it was kind of cool to be able to set it up from scratch, but the apps had lost their software registration. So I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner, and created a bootable duplicate of my hard drive. Put in your Snow Leopard DVD, use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone from the DVD onto your partition. This can all be done from the command line of course, but CCC is great. Check out the new video for Mountain Lion:the free version here:to repartiti. I’d like to take this opportunity to say I’ve been extremely happy with Carbon Copy Cloner and Bombich Software over the four years I’ve been a customer. CCC is a truly outstanding piece of crafted software with top-notch support (I love the integrated help and support features) offered by a reliable and professionally-run company.

I am reluctantly getting ready to upgrade my laptop to OS X 10.7 Lion. (The “reluctantly” part is a subject for another post). Because I have some PowerPC apps, including a couple of favorite games that I still use, I decided to pick up an external hard drive, and install Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped.

Hanging at the Gray Apple

My first stab was to pick up a USB flash drive, and try to install Snow Leopard on that. I had a Snow Leopard box set, so I dug that out, and it dutifully ran, but when it restarted to finish the installation, it hung at the gray Apple logo at start up. Powering down and back up didn’t help.

My next thought was that perhaps it was the flash drive, so I picked up an external Seagate GoFlex drive, which the person at the Apple store assured me could be booted from. My plan was to create a stripped down drive with just Snow Leopard and my PowerPC apps. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t boot either. I installed from the Snow Leopard CD, and once again, it wouldn’t boot.

Use the Restore Disk

At this point, I was starting to suspect something was wrong with the computer. I did some searching online, and finally found the answer. My laptop is newer than my Snow Leopard CD, and came with a newer version of Snow Leopard; version 10.6, which is what was on the CD, was too old. So I dug the laptop box out from under the eaves, got out the restore CD, and installed Snow Leopard onto the external hard drive. Success!