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Clone a bootable hard disk the easy way
Authored by: nickv2002 on Apr 04, '07 09:19:02PM
Agreed: I copy my bootable drive back and forth between my Mac Pro and MacBook all the time (for traveling). The only time I would expect things to not work would, obviously, be copying between PPC and Intel boot drives, but as long as you're on the same architecture and have the latest OS things should work fine. Also, every once in a while Apple ships new machines with newer OS version than currently are available (10.2.7 for the first gen of G5's comes to mind but there are other more recent examples). If you buy a new computer and Apple hasn't updated the OS recently it's a good idea to check and make sure the OS version and build number you're putting on the new computer is equal to or greater than the one it shipped with... you can check build numbers under the Apple Menu -> About this Mac, then click on the Version 10.x.x to see the build #.

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