Does Carbon Copy Cloner Copy the EFI Partition?

[trs96]

A far superior (IMHO) App is EFI Agent

+1 for EFI Agent, nothing else is as easy to use or works as reliably.

 

[toothpix]

@toothpix,

I've never had much success with EFI Mounter ... I ditched it years ago.

A far superior (IMHO) App is EFI Agent which is written by the same devloper as Hackintool :-

EFI Agent v1.3.2 (menu bar utility)

Simple, low resource, efficient and no frills tool to mount EFI partitions. Features: Shows EFI disks to mount / unmount and open in Finder Shows disk icons and color-coded partition scheme Shows boot EFI partition (uses IODeviceTree:/chosen/boot-device-path if...

www.tonymacx86.com

Once installed it runs in the menu bar allowing you to qucikly mount and unmount any partition (not just EFI).
If you click on the cog icon you can configure it to auto load at boot time mening that you will always have quick access to it .. its super useful if you work a lot with EFI partitions like I do.

Hackintool also has the same feature baked into it (on the "Disks") page but is obvusly not quite as acesscable as EFI Agent.

Cheers
Jay

Thanks Jay, I’ll definitely replace EFI mounter with EFI Agent as my mount/unmount tool.

Are you able to tell from looking at the clover boot loader screens in my post which option is my backup? I got into clover from booting off my USB drive’s uefi partition so I think my backup worked . . . But none of the options from the clover screen seem right.

Thank you,

Mike

 

[jaymonkey]

Are you able to tell from looking at the clover boot loader screens in my post which option is my backup? I got into clover from booting off my USB drive’s uefi partition so I think my backup worked

@toothpix,

Hard to tell from those shots as only you know which hardware device is the correct one ...

The nice thing about using EFI Agent is that it shows you the full hardware device name for each drive so its very easy to know which EFI partition (on which hardware device) your mounting ...

Here is an example from my main work system ..

As you can see I have a lot of drives and partitions .... however EFI Agent will always identify your primary MacOS Boot EFI boot partition with a green highlight so there is never any doubt which EFI you need to mount ..

The problem with just about every other EFI mounting utility is that they usually only list partitions as "EFI" without identifying the hardware device .... just like in your screen shot which makes mounting the correct one a bit random. To make things worse the order of the drives can change bewteen boots whch can lead to even more confusion.

Switch to EFI Agent now and all confusion should be a thing of the past ...

Cheers
Jay

 

[marcovitale]

@EddyMac thanks. Paragon is specialist on this and I wonder which program exactly. If could a very brief procedure that would be very helpful.
regards

hi Cabriolet, have you used Paragon for cloning dual boot disk ? but which is the right program of Paragon to choose for imaging?

 

[FormerUser-400995]

A far superior (IMHO) App is EFI Agent which is written by the same devloper as Hackintool :-

Cheers
Jay

Thanks for the tip. This definitely saves a little brain strain, thanks to Headkaze.