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How to clone external hard drive on Mac? Don’t worry. Just free download DoYourClone for Mac, this Mac disk clone software is able to help you clone external hard drive to another hard drive on Mac.

In most cases, Mac users want to clone external hard drive to another hard drive because they want to migrate the data from the external hard drive to other hard drive or make a backup of the external hard drive under Mac OS. And if the external hard drive gets damaged and you can’t access to your data, you can clone the damaged external hard drive to a large hard drive, then you can check the data on the large hard drive.

Two modes to clone external hard drive to another hard drive on Mac

DoYourClone for Mac is a powerful hard drive clone software for Mac. If you want to clone external hard drive on Mac, just free download it.

It offers two modes to clone external hard drive on Mac. You can 1:1 copy the external hard drive to another hard drive or create a DMG/ZIP disk image of the external hard drive.

Mode 1: copy the external hard drive to other hard drive on Mac

This mode is able to help you copy the external hard drive to another hard drive by 1 click. Here are the steps.

Step 1: Choose source drive and destination drive.

Run DoYourClone for Mac on your Mac, choose mode “Copy Disk”. Then choose the external hard drive as the source drive, choose a hard drive to save the copy of the external hard drive.

how to clone external hard drive to Mac hard drive

Step 2: Clone the external hard drive on Mac.

Click on “Copy Now” button. DoYourClone for Mac will copy all the data from the external hard drive to the destination drive.

how to clone external hard drive to Mac hard drive

Step 3: Check the cloned data.

When the clone process gets finished, you can check the cloned data on the destination hard drive.

how to clone external hard drive to Mac hard drive

Mode 2: create disk image of external hard drive on Mac

This is a disk-saving way to backup the external hard drive on Mac. It will create a disk image of the external hard drive.

Step 1: Choose mode “Create Disk Image”.

Create a disk image of the external hard drive. Just choose the external hard drive as the source drive, choose a destination drive to save the disk image of the external hard drive.

how to clone external hard drive to Mac hard drive

Step 2: Create a Disk Image of the external hard drive.

Create a disk image of the external hard drive using DoYourClone for Mac. Just click Create Image button to create a ZIP or DMG disk image to save it to the destination drive.

how to clone external hard drive to Mac hard drive

Step 3: Check the disk image.

Check the disk image on the destination drive. You can visit the data of the external hard drive via the disk image.

how to clone external hard drive to Mac hard drive

DoYourClone for Mac is excellent disk clone program. It can help you clone external hard drive to any HDD/SSD or USB flash drive, etc. Now, just free download DoYourClone for Mac.

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Darren is an senior editor at DoYourData. Since 2021, Darren has written 100+ articles about data recovery, Mac file recovery, disk management, disk clone, computer issue fixes, etc. He helps lost of users to recover important data, get the reliable data backup solution, find optimization for PCs and Macs.

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