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    How is to clone disk "dd" into a physical internal disk of MacBook 2019?

    Hi there all, I try to clone my old disk with Terminal 'dd' command into an internal physical [soldered] disk of a MacBook Pro 2019. My old 2TB disk has macOS Catalina and Windows 8 Bootcamp, so I wish to have its exact clone on the newest MacBook's 2TB soldered disk. A Terminal command looks...
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    Clone iMac M3 to iMac M3 Sonoma

    I work at a school and just got 25 iMacs for a computer lab. iMac 24-inch, 2023 Apple M3 16 GB Memory Sonoma 14.3 I setup one computer with usernames, applications, etc. and I wanted to clone that computer to all other computers one at a time. For many years (Since the Firewire days and up...
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    Clone 1tb macOS High Sierra HDD

    I recently sought the advice of these forums on the best hardware to enable my 2012 iMac to boot from an external SSD. I settled on a 1tb SSD and a USB3 enclosure. Some background info on my current system: OS: High Sierra 10.13.6 HD: 1tb HDD (Mac OS Extended - Journaled) I've consolidated...
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    Image Problems in High Sierra

    I know I'm not alone with this frustration about Disk Utility imaging in High Sierra. With Apple trying to move away from Disk Utility as a supported way of disk imaging, many admins are left in limbo. For years I have been able to use disk utility (via Target disk or recovery mode) to take and...
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    Disk Utility won't restore to new LaCie drive

    Hi everybody! I have a G-DRIVE pro thunderbolt drive that contains about 3Gs of material I desperately need to backup. I want a replica/clone so that the directories stay the same in all my projects. I was advised to use Disk Utility>Restore from>G-DRIVE to LaCie drive Seems straight forward...