Tag Archives: Clone

Clone and scan?… Try a data recovery clone feature.

Failing Data Recovery Scan I corresponded with a customer who was using  Data Rescue 3  to scan her failing Mac hard drive, was getting stuck at 51%.  She had previously ran the scan on this drive and when it reached 51% … Continue reading

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Making a clone for backup purpose

I spoke to a customer who had a drive on his mac that he wanted to clone to another drive.  He was doing this for creating a secondary drive for backup purposes. He decided to use the Drive Genius 3 … Continue reading

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Recovering Data From a Disk Image Clone

Today I helped customer who had used Data Rescue 3 for Mac to clone their problem hard drive to a disk image on one of their other drives. The clone had finished successfully but he was not sure what to … Continue reading

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Hard Drive Failure Warning

I helped a customer recently who was using Data Rescue 3 to recover data from the hard drive from his MacBook Pro that he is no longer able to use to startup his computer. He had replaced the drive and … Continue reading

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When a scan stops when trying to run data recovery software.

I recently helped a customer who was running a scan using Data Rescue 3 on his external hard drive that was no longer mounting. His drive was 500 GB and he had been running the scan for an entire day … Continue reading

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Make a Clone Backup Before Replacing Your Mac Hard Drive

Today I helped a customer who wanted to use Data Backup 3 to clone their Mac hard drive. He was replacing his Mac hard drive with a new SSD and he wanted a clone backup of his current hard drive … Continue reading

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How To Restore a Clone Backup

I want to tell you about a warning that I received  from DrivePulse indicating I had errors on my drive.  I had to reinstall Mac OS X to resolve this issue after I initialized my startup volume. I did not … Continue reading

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When is it best to clone a failing hard drive?

I spoke with a customer today who was asking why it was taking a long time to scan his internal drive that was not mounting. He had trouble with this Mac and one day it would not start up to … Continue reading

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How-to Edit a Backup Set in Data Backup 3

Today I spoke with a customer who was reporting that Data Backup 3 would not complete a clone backup set that was running for a long time but now recently was not finishing. The backups had been running fine for … Continue reading

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Cloning A Drive With Drive Genius 3

I spoke with a customer who was trying to clone a used volume on his Mac to another external hard drive and was not able to start the clone process. I asked him what the size of the volume is … Continue reading

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