Image Mac Disk - The Ultimate Disk Image Utility for Mac OS X Hard Drives

Your Mac hard drive or the volumes store many important data in it. Imagine, one day the hard drive fails or the volume containing all your precious data gets corrupt, then how much data you will lose! There are many such incidents, starting from accidental data deletion, formatting and virus/malware infection to operating system malfunction which result in the loss or inaccessibility of valuable data. This is why it is always suggested to take regular backup of important data.

Disk imaging is a reliable data backup technique, which helps you image Mac hard drive, external drives or volumes and keep them at a safe location. Later, these image files will be useful in restoring the lost data, whenever you encounter any instance of data loss/inaccessibility.

Stellar Drive Clone is an immensely useful utility to create images of your Mac hard drives, volumes or external volumes and save them at any desired location. This wonderful utility even provides option to create image of the boot volume by creating a minimal system.

Stellar Drive Clone performs block by block drive image and creates an exact image of your Mac drive. The utility is simple to use and you can create the image of the required drive/volume in few easy steps.

Process to create image of a drive/volume (Including Boot Volume):

• Run Stellar Drive Clone application, which will open the main interface of the software as below. Click the 'Imaging' icon under the 'Clone & Imaging' tab.

   

  

   

• Below window opens, listing all the hard drives and volumes connected to the Mac system.
  • If you want to create disk image of a volume other than the Boot Volume, then select the drive/volume from the 'Select Source' section.

  • If you want to create disk image of the Boot Volume, then a message box will pop-up saying – 'Create Minimal System of Boot Volume'. Click the 'Image with Minimal System' button to continue

     

    

• To choose the destination volume or folder at which you want to save the image file, click the 'Choose Destination' button on the screen.

  Note- For the safe storage of the image file, ensure that the destination folder/volume must be on another drive.

   

  

   

• Navigate to the destination volume/folder, specify the name of the image file and click the button, 'Save'. Click the 'Continue' button at the bottom right corner of the interface to start the imaging process. On completion of the process, the image file gets saved at the destination, specified.

Stellar Drive Clone is a read-only utility and is completely safe on the source drive/volume, it works on. Moreover, with highly interactive graphical user interfaces, the software can even be used by the non-technical novice users, without any further assistance.