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“Hi, after installing macOS Big Sur, I am trying to backup my data to an external hard drive. Is there any disk cloning software can help me clone my Mac SSD to the external hard drive?” - Katina

clone hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur

DoYourData software offers powerful, safe and easy-to-use disk cloning software for macOS Big Sur. If you wan to clone hard drive or backup data on macOS Big Sur, just download DoYourClone for Mac.

This powerful disk cloning software can help you clone HDD, SSD, USB flash drive, memory card, digital device. It also can help you create a disk image of a hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur. (DoYourClone for Mac is also support for other macOS versions and OS X versions, download it by clicking on download button below.)

DoYourClone for Mac

DoYourClone for Mac

Easily clone hard drive, copy disk drive, create disk image on macOS Big Sur.

Easily clone hard drive on macOS Big Sur

DoYourClone for Mac is an easy-to-use disk cloning software. It can help you easily and quickly clone your hard drive from one location to another. It offers two modes to help you clone hard drive on macOS Big Sur.

Mode 1. Copy hard drive on macOS Big Sur.

‘Copy Disk’ mode is able to help you 1:1 copy data from one hard drive to another hard drive. Now, we will show you how to use this mode to help you clone hard drive on your macOS Big Sur Mac machine.

Step 1. Choose source drive and destination drive.

Choose mode ‘Copy Disk’, this mode will help you easily copy data from the source drive to the destination dive. It will copy all data from the source drive to the destination drive by default. You also can selectively clone your data to the destination drive.

Just select the source drive and destination drive.

clone hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur

Step 2. Copy the source drive data to the destination drive.

Just click on Copy Now button to copy data from the source drive to the destination drive. The software will create a folder on the destination dive to save the cloned data.

clone hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur

Once the cloning process gets finished, you can check the cloned data on the destination drive.

clone hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur

Mode 2. Create a disk image on macOS Big Sur.

‘Create Disk Image’ mode is able to help you create a zip or dmg disk image of the source drive and save it to the destination drive.

Step 1. Choose source drive and destination drive.

Choose mode ‘Create Disk Image’, then select the source drive and destination drive. Then this mode will create the disk image of the source drive and save the disk image to the destination drive.

clone hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur

Step 2. Create disk image.

Click on ‘Create Image’ button to start create a disk image of the source drive and save it to the destination drive.

clone hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur

Once the process gets finished, you can check the disk image on the destination drive.

clone hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur

As you’ve seen, DoYourClone for Mac can help you securely and easily clone hard drive on macOS Big Sur. It can help you easily clone a Mac SSD to an external hard drive after upgrading to macOS Big Sur. Actually, this software can help you clone any type of HDD, SSD, memory card, USB flash drive under macOS Big Sur. When you lose your data from the source drive, you can restore the data from destination drive or disk image.

If you want to make a bootable clone for macOS Big Sur, just check this guide: make a full bootable clone for macOS Big Sur >>

DoYourClone for Mac

  • Create bootable clone backup for macOS 11 or other macOS versions.
  • Create disk image on Mac.
  • Clone SSD, HDD, USB flash drive, external disk on Mac.
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Written & Updated by Darren

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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