Paragon Drive Copy for Mac OS X

Discussion in 'Paragon Early Adopter Program' started by Paragon_MA, Feb 27, 2014.

  1. ramjet73

    ramjet73 Registered Member

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    I just signed up for the beta and downloaded and installed the current version ( 0.0.478 ).

    In addition to the pending items already been mentioned above, I have a couple of questions:

    1. Would it be possible to add and option to change the volume name (s) for the destination partition(s)? This utility seems to be doing a sector by sector image copy but maybe it could be done as a post copy operation?

    2. Another related question is that I was wondering how the GUID is being handled. Is it left as the original value or changed automatically to a new ID by the copy? The reason I ask is that DropBox asked me to login again and indicated I was activating a new computer when I booted the copy and I'm not sure why that would have happened unless the ID of the drive was changed. Perhaps there should be an option to change the GUID or retain the original value and dismount the target drive after the copy?

    Speaking of target drive, I thing the identification of the panels is reversed in steps 1 and 2 on page 3 of the manual. In my copy of the software, the source panel is on the left and the target panel is on the right. ;)
     
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  2. JohnnyRoy

    JohnnyRoy Registered Member

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    I hade the same experience with DropBox. I was wondering why that happened.
    I agree this is critical! The whole reason for imaging a drive is to not have to re-activate everything when you need to restore.

    I just used Drive Copy this morning to replace the 500GB HDD in my wife's MacBook Pro with a 500GB SSD and the copy was fast and I swapped the drives, and everything seems to be working fine.
     
  3. kimono

    kimono Registered Member

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    I 'm not used to do beta test
    I've tried to copy my complete HD with 2 partitions mac and boot camp (750go)
    It took more than 7 h (external disk connected on usb 2 port) and the copy fail at the end with the reason repair your systems files, there's a lot of cross-linked files
    I've done the repairs
    I've tried to relaunch the copy and no way
    I've tried to erase the destination disk no way with disk utility
    I had to restart the mac without the disk connected , connect the disk and erase it
    And now i try it again and hope that the copy will succeed
     
  4. kimono

    kimono Registered Member

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    Second try was the good one
    Repairing the disk is certainly necessary before any operation
    Now I ' trying a second conversion between the obtained copy to a new disk that will be intalled in my powerbook
    During doing this, it was quiet difficult to modify the repartition of free space between the differents partitions of the new disk
    It's not easy to scroll for the space and when you try one time it's not possible to modify after except by using the back button and by entering again the source disk and the destination
    Offering the possibility to enter numerical values could be a more convivial solution, an other good way in all cases
    I 'll tell you how the transfer ail be
     
  5. kimono

    kimono Registered Member

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    One more thing…
    During copy execution, overall progress can announce that it's finish, the line is full but the copy can continue ad sometimes for a long time
    It would be pleasant to have a more precise information or an indication by percentage done and/or an estimation of time necessary to finish the operation
     
  6. stephen_w

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    Quick Comment on #3:

    As this is an OS X application, the app can easily be copied over to a USB Drive and ran from there. Just drag 'n drop app from app folder to USB drive. Then launch from USB drive. Works fine.
     
  7. JohnnyRoy

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    Got another update: I was upgrading a MacBook Pro from a HDD to SSD and used Drive Copy like I did for my Mac Pro. Something very strange happened. Before the copy I booted into recovery mode and verified that none of the partitions had any problems. Then I booted into Mavericks and attached the new SSD via external USB 3.0 enclosure and started the copy operation. I let it run overnight and it completed successfully.

    When I rebooted the Mac I held down the Option key expecting to see two sets of disks to boot from. I wanted to boot from the external SSD just to see if it was OK. To my surprise, all I saw was "Macintosh HD", "Recovery", and "EFI". The EFI was from the external drive. I did not try and boot from it because it should have said "Macintosh HD". I booted into the original Macintosh HD and shut down the Mac and removed the internal HDD and replaced it with the SDD. When I rebooted the system came up. I went into the System Preferences and set the Startup Disk as my new hard drive. Then I rebooted and held down the Option key to see if the Recovery partition would show up. The computer never booted again! It would show the Apple logo, then a progress indicator would show up under the logo and when it was done it would shut down. This happens even if I don't use the Option key. I tried several times and the same Apple logo with progress indicator was as far as I could get.

    I finally connected the original HDD up to the external USB enclosure, booted to the Recovery partition, ran Verify Disk on the SSD Macintosh HD partition that Drive Copy created and it had so many errors that Disk Utility said it was not repairable and that I should remove it and recreate it from a backup. That's what I'm doing now but I wonder what happened with Drive Copy. It had worked great on my Mac Pro but not this time. :(

    BTW, does anybody from Paragon read these? Is the code ever going to be updated with these bugs fixed?

    ~jr
     
  8. networksguy

    networksguy Registered Member

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    Thank you for this! I will be purchasing a new iMac at some point in 1H 2015 and I have a late 2008 MB (one of the first uni-body models; I don't think the MBP was made then?) and a 500G spinning HDD and with Win7 64 and Mavericks not Lion, but I think this recipe will work. Any chance that Paragon or any other product can do it all since your post in April?

    Thanks, Joe

     
  9. Jimas

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    Hi
    I run Drive copy on Yosemite 10.10.1
    I have an iMac 21,5' late 2009 core 2 duo, with a Fusion drive (HDD+SSD) and a Snow Leopard partition on the HDD
    I also have a white macbook 2007 - Lion and Tiger partitions - intel
    I use Parallels desktop (last version 10) and my objective was P2V : to virtualize old OSX like Snow Leopard and Tiger on parallels on my iMac
    I could make virtual drives of my Snow Leopard volume with Drive Copy, but :
    -the .vdi .vhd .vmdk worked - I could not create a .hdd file, dont understand why
    -I could run the OS with virtualbox :
    - for the Snow Leopard 10.6 with .vdi, .vhd, .vmdk
    - for the Tiger VM with .vdi and .vmdk, files created on the Lion Macbook Core Duo with Drive Copy
    - I could run none of those with Parallels Desktop, neither with VMware Fusion
    - I did not find efficient tool to convert the files to a parallels format
    So the result of this experience is pretty good but partial.
    Has someone any idea to import theese machines in parallels ?
    thanks
     
  10. Jimas

    Jimas Registered Member

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    I'd like to try this FTK imager - do you think it could p2v an OSX volume to Parallels format ?
    does it work on a mac ?
     
  11. JohnnyRoy

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    I just used DriveCopy again on my 2012 Mac Pro 12-core and it didn't work out so good. It had a 512GB SSD with OS X 10.10 Yosemite and a Bootcamp partition. I was copying to a 480GB Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD. The copy was fine but the Bootcamp partition did not boot properly. Windows would boot and then blu screen. When I ran the recovery tool from the Windows 7 Pro DVD it said that it could not fix the problem. I had to restore my Bootcamp partition with another 3rd party tool. I also lost the Recovery Partition showing up when booting with the Option key pressed.

    Once again I'll ask, is anyone at Paragon fixing these problems and issue a new beta?

    ~jr
     
  12. PaulV

    PaulV Registered Member

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    A few observations:

    1 Overall progress bar shows complete while operational progress bar continues
    2 When booting from duplicated external drive, only shows EFI and no Bootcamp/Windows. Can only boot into OS X
    3 Incremental backup would be helpful as it would save time.
     
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