[X4U] ghost - disk duplicator type utility for Mac OS X

[Jim Scott]

Jerry,

OK, then try using firewire Target Mode.

Install CCC on a Mac with a hard drive that has an empty partition  
big enough to hold the contents of the "suspect" hard drive. If the  
suspect Mac has firewire and is running OS X 10.2 or higher (which  
seems likely), then connect the two Macs with a firewire cable. Start  
your Mac, then start up the other Mac and immediately hold down the T  
key until you see a yellow firewire icon bouncing around on a blue  
screen. Your Mac will see the suspect machine as a Target Mode hard  
drive, and you'll have total access to it. Then run CCC and clone the  
suspect drive to the empty partition on your Mac. Or have an external  
drive connected to your Mac and use your Mac to clone the suspect  
Target Mode drive to the external hard drive.

All of this assumes you're running OS X 10.2 or higher on both  
machines, if I remember the cutoff point for firewire Target Mode  
capabilities.

HTH,

Jim

On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:

> Hello Jim,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I have used CCC before personally at home,  
> and I always use it prior to a major upgrade on any of my systems  
> at home.
>
> Unfortunately, I am not going to be able to do anything, or put  
> anything on the drive in question.  The drive will need to be  
> duplicated with no modification on my part.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> Jim Scott wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>>> Can anyone suggest a commercial ghost type disk duplicator for  
>>> Mac OS X??
>>>
>>> Without providing a lot of details, this would be used in a  
>>> criminal investigation, where a disk would be removed from a  
>>> system, imaged and restored to alternate disk drives for analyst.
>>>
>>> TIA for any pointers,
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>> Carbon Copy Cloner (freeware/shareware) or SuperDuper (low-cost)  
>> will give you an exact copy of a disk. Install it on the hard  
>> drive in question, then clone the drive to an external drive, or  
>> to a second drive installed in the source drive Mac if that is  
>> possible.
>> HTH
>> Jim
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