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Stellar Drive Clone

Utility to create exact replica or mirror image of Mac-based hard drives and logical volumes

A complete Hard Drive Cloning utility that can be used to create clone or image of the Mac hard drive/volume. The cloned hard drive can be used as a ready-to-use copy of the original hard drive, whereas the image file can be useful in restoring the data, in case of any data loss/inaccessibility.

Cloning - Creates an exact copy of hard drive and logical volumes
Imaging - Creates image of any volume or entire Mac hard drive
Restore - Option to restore volume from a folder or image file
Support - Supports latest Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Bonus Add On:

Boot DVD & Minimal System - Provides options to create Bootable DVD and Minimal System, which can be helpful in accessing the system, when your Mac OS crashes or fails to boot.

File Size:16 MB

^* Using the Free Download of Stellar Drive Clone, you can check how to perform the various cloning option, exhaustively. To finally create clone or image of your drive, you need to purchase the product.

Features – Hard Drive Cloning or Imaging

Clones a Hard Drive/Volume

Creates clone of any Mac based volume or the entire hard drive to another hard drive, network drive, volume or folder. In situations of system crash, hard drive damage etc., the cloned hard drive can be used as a backup drive. This feature can also be useful, if you want to take a full system backup.

Clones Solid State Drive (SSD) to Mac Drive

Stellar Drive Clone has extended support to clone or copy the exact contents of a solid-state drive to your Mac drive. SSD drives are comparatively faster than traditional magnetic disks. They are less susceptible to damage, but you may face data loss on these drives. To avert the possibility of any data disaster, you can create a clone of your SSD drive using Stellar Drive Clone.

Support for ExFAT file system

Besides supporting HFS, HFS+ and FAT based drives, the software also performs cloning for exFAT based volumes or drives. With the help of this feature, you can also clone a flash drive formatted with exFAT file system. Further, the software can clone any NTFS formatted drive to exFAT formatted drive in Mac OSX Lion.

Support for MBR Partition Map scheme

With Stellar Drive Clone, you get the advantage of cloning hard disks formatted with MBR (Master Boot Record) partition map scheme. This is a native partitioning scheme for DOS and Windows disks. It is also used for devices that support DOS or Windows compatible file formats, such as memory cards.

Creates Image of a Hard Drive/Volume

Provides option to create image of any Mac based hard drive or volume. The hard drive image stores the content of the entire hard drive and can be useful in case of any instance of data loss/inaccessibility. The image file created through Stellar Drive Clone takes less storage space, as it ignores the bad sectors and unused file space in the source drive/volume.

Resizes Volumes on Destination Drive

Usually, after the hard drive cloning process, if the destination drive has more space, then the remaining extra space becomes useless and no data can be saved on the same. To utilize the entire space of the hard drive, Stellar Drive Clone provides option to resize the volumes on the destination drive.

Restores Data from Folder/Image

With the 'Restore' feature, the software restores the volume to its original state by copying back all the data from the cloned folder or hard drive image file. Note that the data restoration process through Stellar Drive Clone is much faster than that of the manual method.

Option to Create Bootable DVDOption to Create Bootable DVD

Provides option to create a Bootable DVD, which can help you boot your system, in case of any instance of system failure or crash. You can include multiple applications, depending upon the space in the DVD and run them from the Bootable DVD as well. You do not need to copy the Drive Clone application to the Bootable DVD, as the application is included by default.

Option to Create Minimal System

Creates a minimal system with all the necessary system files, which works as a real system with bare minimum features. The Minimal System created through Stellar Drive Clone includes Apple's default applications, all the files/folders on the desktop and the applications selected by you. This system provides an empty user's folder with all the default preferences. Moreover, booting from a minimal system is faster than the Bootable DVD.

Preferences to Personalize End-Task Activities

This feature of the software allows you to customize the end-task activities of hard drive imaging/cloning. The feature includes options to set various preferences, such as 'Play Sound', 'Send system to sleep', 'Shutdown system', when the job of cloning/imaging gets finished. You can also set preferences to check for Stellar Drive Clone updates at a scheduled day.

FAQs on Mac Drive Clone

How much time does the software take to clone hard drive?

I have three partitions in my Mac hard drive, one is of HFS+ file system, another is FAT and the third
one is based on NTFS file system. Will the clone copy of my hard drive contain the data in all
three partitions?

I have created a bootable DVD on a system having an Intel processor. Can I use this bootable DVD to
boot a PowerPC - based machine?

Can I clone my volume to a network drive using this software?

My source drive is having two partitions and the destination drive is larger than my source drive.
Can I choose to have just two partitions on the destination drive while cloning my hard drive?

What are the end-task preferences, I can set in Stellar Drive Clone and how to do them?

One of the volumes in my Mac has NTFS file system. Can I clone the data using Can Stellar Drive Clone?

Why Stellar