![]() When I want to freeze the state of a disk. The boot sector and partition table are normally non-readable by user-level software such as MacDrive, this is why it is so important to do the type of full drive image that you want to do.Ī program that I use for this under Windows is Paragon Backup and Recovery Free Edition. This will include the boot sector and the partition table. ![]() Next, what you really want to do is make a byte-for-byte copy of the entire disk. I assume this would take less than 5 days, so I highly recommend MacDrive for this purpose. So in case the cloning is somehow destructive, at least critical files have been recovered. Alternatives that I have not tried include Paragon HFS and TransMac.īefore attempting to clone the drive, I would use one of the utilities above to copy critical files to some third disk (not the disk you will be cloning to). ![]() This is definitely the most professional HFS+ software for Windows, and it works great. To read and write to my friend's external HFS+ hard drive under Windows, I used the 5 day trial version of MacDrive. Exit that dialogue, because you don't want to accidentally partition the drive. ![]() Be careful when looking at disk management at this point, because Windows likes to pop up a notification that you should format that "unknown" partition. If you were to attach the disk to a Windows system, and go to disk management, the disk would show up but with an "unknown" partition type. There are many programs that will allow you to read and write to the Macintosh filesystem, HFS+.
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