Disk Copy for Macintosh

Disk Copy for the Macintosh

Disk Copy is a macintosh program that makes an image (unchangeable replica) of a disk or folder. It's also recommended that if you are making an image of a large disk that you optimize the disk with a third party program like Norton Speed Disk.

"Why would I want to use disk copy?"

1. Updating Apple software.
   Most of the software updaters and installers come in .smi or .img format. (SMI stands for Self-Mounting Image. IMG stands for IMaGe.) Without Disk Copy version 6.2 or later these files would be useless on your hard drive.
2. Making an image of a disk.
3. Making an image of a hard drive.
4. Making an image of a folder.

Using a .img or .smi file from the internet

1. To use a .img or .smi file on your computer simply double click on it.

Making a copy of a floppy disk.

1. Insert the floppy that you wish to image.
2. Open the Hard Drive.
3. Open the Utilities Folder.
4. Open the Disk Copy folder.
5. Open Disk Copy (icon of a blue and yellow floppy).
6. From the image menu choose "Create image from disk."
7. Double click on the floppy disk.
8. Disk copy will open a new window.
9. Rename the image if you want to.
10. Make sure that the pull down menu is set to "Read only compressed" so the image will take up the least amount of room.
11. Click Save.

Making a copy of a hard disk.

You CANNOT image the active system or the disk were the disk copy application is found. You must re-boot from another disk to image your system.

1. Open the startup disk.
2. Open the Utilities Folder (on the OS CD-Rom or another hard drive).
3. Open the Disk Copy folder.
4. Open Disk Copy (icon of a blue and yellow floppy).
5. From the image menu choose "Create image from disk."
6. Double click on the hard disk you wish to copy.
7. Disk copy will open a new window.
8. Rename the image if you want to.
9. Make sure that the pull down menu is set to "Read only compressed" so the image will take up the least amount of room.
10. Click Save.
    NOTE: Disk Copy CANNOT save the image file to the disk that it is imaging.