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goodcow

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Original poster
Aug 4, 2007
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We got 20 MacBook Air's in at our campus to be distributed to certain faculty and staff. What's the best method to clone these once they're dual-booted? Without firewire and target mode I have a feeling this is going to be really painful... but hopefully somebody here has done this already and has suggestions.

Thanks.
 

Philflow

macrumors 65816
May 7, 2008
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I have not tested it yet but I think Acronis True Image could do it.

You make a bootable CD with the program, boot from the cd and then you can clone the harddisk.

I've done this in Windows environments, but never with a Mac partition.
 

Consultant

macrumors G5
Jun 27, 2007
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Mac OS: Carbon Copy Cloner or there is another app
Windows: Winclone that runs in Mac OS, but you might need a corporate version for duplication, otherwise you need to duplicate it before registering windows.

You might need to partition manually after cloning the Mac OS.
Not sure if there is a way to automate it.

I think if you search Winclone in MR forums you will find lots of threads on cloning both Mac and Windows OS.
 
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