How Copy Your Hard Drive using SuperDuper

This is a video that will teach you how to use SuperDuper to copy the contents of your hard drive to another hard drive. Video narrated by Jeremy Martel. Created and Produced by Digital Minds. I used GarageBand to create the music. Check me out on the web at www.DigitalMindsMedia.ca.

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[soulofsouls]

Hey, Thanks for your time. I just install a 500g hard drive in slot B on my power mac g5. Can I clone the files from the master drive(slot A) to slot B and boot from B, or do I need an eXternal. Thanks...

[jnmartel]

@soulofsouls Yah you definitely can you can select any drive on your computer even partitions as long as they appear in the disk utility as separate drives. I hope this helps let me know if you have any other quesitons.

Cheers

[novaartist]

I would like to know how to copy files form an existing Mac Hd to and internal existing HArd drive that has files on and not lose all the information? can you help

[jnmartel]

@novaartist I would imagine that you could just drag and drop the files over but I have never tried that before and I don't know how well it would work. If you use SuperDuper (the method in this video) all files will be erased on the destination drive. Let me know if you need any more help, Cheers and thanks for watching my video.

[scheekers]

When using SuperDuper to clone my hard drive, are all of my system files from my original hard drive copied? And if not, which files are not copied? Also, I am cloning a 320 Gig drive to a 1.5 Terabyte drive, will the size difference cause any problems?

[jnmartel]

@scheekers It makes a full copy of every file, however you can select not to copy the system files if you desire. No their won't be any issues with you upgrading to a larger drive, in this video we went from an 80GB drive to a 500GB drive.

[Coxfame]

@novaartist you can use firewire to transfer files between computers. the computer that you want to transfer files to must be turned off. turn it on when firewire is connected to both computers and holding the T key while turning on. on the other computer will show up as an external hard-drive. now you can copy files from & tos by dragging them just like you do with memory cards. you can do this Vice versa.

[jnmartel]

@1n322n Put the new hard drive into the external drive to make the copy, make sure it boots and then replace the old hard drive with the new drive.

[jnmartel]

@Uberdude25 I'm not really sure actually as it might not see the partition. I would say Yes it would copy all the files if you can only see one volume and no partitions. But if you can select or or the other partitions then I would say no.

[Uberdude25]

If I had bootcamp installed on the original drive would it also copy the windows files?