Well, If both drives are the same size in amount of available storage space, then a simple command line tool called dd will work just nicely. You can clone the entire drive (including boot sector, partition tables and even the partitions themselves) in one fell swoop.
This command should do the trick, but you will need to do it from a booted usb stick so as to not run into the dreaded “resource busy” error. Dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M The above assumes that the drive you wish to clone from is SDA and the drive you wish to clone too is SDB. Another program that works nicely and is fully accessible is carbon copy cloner. It’s not freeware, but worth every penny. Hope this helps. -Eric > On Mar 6, 2019, at 3:25 AM, Trahern Culver <sound.warrio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, I’m looking to clone my old external hard drive to my new external > hard drive what program would you all recommend for this? I know there are > some accessible hard drive cloners but I’m wondering which one would be best > for this use case and why? > > your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards trey. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu <mailto:mk...@ucla.edu> and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can > reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
