subject: Drive Toolbox – A wonderful utility to clone Mac drive [print this page] Drive Toolbox A wonderful utility to clone Mac drive
Sometimes, your Mac hard drive behaves abruptly, resulting in the complete inaccessibility of all your valuable data in it. The reason can be anything starting from a virus/malware infection to hard drive crash. In such situations, if you have taken back-up of your data, you can easily restore the data within no time. However, if you have not taken any recent backup, the situation is pretty serious, as you are at the verge of losing all your precious hard drive data. Moreover, the process of data recovery will also take some time and if you need your data immediately, it cannot be the appropriate solution for you.
For these kinds of situations, Mac drive clone is like a boon, with which you can make clones of your drive/volume and keep them to restore data later.
In day to day life, there are a number of situations, which lead to the crash of your hard drive or complete inaccessibility of it. Apart from this, the causes behind data loss can be as simple as deleting a file, virus infection, operating system crash, file system corruption, bad sector in the hard drive or any other hardware/software malfunction to any physical failure of the Mac drive. Whatever, be the method of recovering the data, the process will definitely take some time. Along this line, data recovery percentage depends on the data loss situation and the degree of impact. Therefore, having a hard drive cloning utility, and keeping images of the drive/volume always be advantageous.
With these utilities, you can even Clone Mac hard drive, once you detect any sign of trouble and can keep the image file before the drive dies.
In general, Mac drive/volume clone utilities help you copy the selected contents of your Mac hard drive/volume sector by sector. You can also make image file and restore the data exactly as the original at any point of time.
These wonderful applications provide two distinguished option. One is to make a clone of the drive/volume and another is to make image of the selected volume/drive. You can use the cloned drive as exactly the original source drive. Similarly, from the image file, you can restore your data to a new hard drive and can work as the source drive/volume.
Stellar Drive Toolbox is an immensely useful utility, which provide Mac drive clone as one of it utilities. The software is absolutely read-only and clones the Mac drive/volume efficiently. With highly interactive graphical user interfaces, the utility is pretty easy to use even by the users having less technical knowledge.
