Best app to clone bad mac hard drive

ddrescue

ddrescue doesn't care what O/S in on the drive since it does a sector by sector image. Once you get the image, then whichever recovery tool you use will obviously be required to speak MAC.
 
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Maybe some more details like which version OS? And what do they want? No different than any other computer cloning failing drives may produce a unusable OS platform.

Carbon Copy Cloner by Bombich has been around for ages but no longer is free.
 
Seems bad sectors are about 1000 sectors from data on the hard drive os boots fine and runs but if i try a sector backup it fails on carbon clone what i need is to just backup used space like acronis does.
Tried clonezilla it failed as well need to backup used space only.
 
lcoughey said:
This is a good time to stop and confirm that your client's data isn't worth sending out to a pro before all is lost.
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^^^^ What he said. But if this is just a fishing expedition, meaning the customer does not place a meaningful monetary value on the data, just use ddrescue as SilverLeaf said. Another option to look at R-Tools. It has options on how to handle bad blocks during a drive scan. You can download the trial version and if you like what you see you can then purchase the license and apply to key to recover.
 
All the customers data is backed up files,docs pics problem is when they bought it they did not get a disk, i don't have any mac os here either just trying to get the os intact.
Bad sectors are quite far from data on hard drive i will give ddrescue a try , i always backup data before doing recovery and use an image to work off during recovery.
 
Being a PC guy what if you took drive out put it in a PC laptop connected target with USB then booted with Acronis and did a clone
It wouldn’t know or care what’s on it.

You would probably have to remove drive anyway
 
As an alternative, SuperDuper provides much the same functionality as CCC and is trialware - free for most cloning tasks but the paid version gives you scheduling etc.

Also, even if you don't deal with many Macs, you might want to think about using a spare HDD or a few flash drives for OSX installs and maybe a boot disk for troubleshooting. Will make life easier for the next Mac job that comes along.
 
Not impressed with Carbon Copy Cloner it asked me all kinds of questions
saying format not compatible with Apple if it cloning the format gets cloned

Just tried SuperDuper and I like it much better
 
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I'm kinda confused.
I just use the defaults.

Assuming you are trying to clone the boot drive to an different drive.
Format the new disk with Disk Utility as a guid partition. (not required, but i like to do it)
In CCC, select the Source Disk
Select the Destination disk.
Click Clone.
If there is no recovery partition on the destination drive, it will ask to create one - say yes.
When the recovery is done, close it out and click clone.

In about an hour or so, you will have a bootable clone, that you can boot as a usb, firewire, or internal drive
 
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Mac Drive can be cloned by a built-in app 'Time Machine' but if you are a non technical person then go for the expert Third party applications like CCC, Stellar Drive Clone to clone Mac drive. But full version is paid. Free trial is also available upto an extent.
 
Once drive is cloned with SuperDuper or ccc to a usb drive
can the original drive be cloned over while in osx
I doubt it would allow to kill itself
in the case I want to do a restore
 
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