access while its in the shop?Īnyway you can clonezilla it and using Linux to mount the freshly cloned drive get your data. resizing the OSX partition might be an issue.unless you just want to copy your drive for temp. a bigger drive would still work, however without using advanced features of OSX's command line diskutil or another partition tool. ( i have used clonezilla on multiboot OS systems before).
if a new logicboard is installed windows "might" not like it and you may have to call microsoft to re-validate your license.Īs far as cloning the drive and applying that image to the same size hard drive clonezilla would work. and back everything up to a FAT32 drive so file permissions are not an issue later.Įsp since until you do it, a disk image is not a guaranteed to work kind of thing. and use a bootable Linux distro to access your information. If you need your information during the repair the best thing would be to remove the drive and mount it in an external enclosure.