You can also clone Windows drives with the USB if you have a multiboot setup.

What version should I get ? Mac or PC version ?īooting from the Acronis rescue USB made on a PC seems to be the best, most reliable approach to making clones of your macOS drives that will be fully bootable. Image shows how to select the ISO for downloading and burning to a USB drive.

When you make a bootable USB with ATI 2020 for PC on it, you'll be ready for just about any kind of problem that will crop up from time to time on your macOS and Windows installs. If you dual boot with Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 then Acronis is clearly the best choice for you. It also reduces the risk that you may cause problems by entering the wrong commands or choosing the wrong partition in Terminal. If you are a hackintosh beginner and not comfortable with the Terminal approach, Acronis provides a clean and easy to navigate GUI that makes backups and clones extremely simple to make.

The above methods may not work for everyone depending on their skill and experience level. With the terminal method you must really know what you are doing and the drive you clone to must be the exact same size as the one you clone from, not ideal. If you are more tech savvy it's possible to use Terminal to clone your complete macOS system drive, even the EFI partition. Makes the whole process quick and seamless. That's one of the main reasons I'm using Acronis instead of other options. Acronis True Image will do all this for you. We hackintosh owners must have the EFI folder copied over to the cloned drive's EFI partition or it simply won't boot. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's GuideĬlick to expand.So that is why CCC software will not copy the EFI partition for you.

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