# What's a good Mac and Windows-compatible drive cloning software for mixed home and office use?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I'm researching cloning options for mixed environments that run both Mac and Windows machines. Most of the well-reviewed tools in the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/hard-drive-cloning">Hard Drive Cloning category</a> are Windows-focused, and one that used to cover Mac stepped back from it, so true cross-platform coverage is narrower than the question implies. Here's what the reviews actually support:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/clonezilla/reviews"><strong>Clonezilla</strong></a><strong>:</strong> The genuinely cross-platform option here. It's OS-agnostic at the disk level, boots from its own live media rather than depending on Windows, and users specifically call out backing up non-Windows systems. The trade-off is a text-based interface and the need to be comfortable with boot settings, so it leans technical for a home context.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/acronis-true-image/reviews"><strong>Acronis True Image</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Worth naming precisely because of the Mac question: users report it dropped MacOS support in late 2023, so for the Windows side of a mixed setup, it still does full-disk imaging and HDD-to-SSD cloning well, but it's no longer the Mac answer it once was.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Realistically, a lot of mixed shops end up running one tool for the Windows machines and relying on native tooling or a live utility like Clonezilla for the rest. If you support both Mac and Windows, have you found a single tool that genuinely covers both for cloning, or do you split it? I'd like to hear what's actually working in practice.</p>

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&lt;p&gt;We had a mixed setup for a while and honestly never found one tool that handled both well. Ended up using Clonezilla for the Macs since it doesn&#39;t care about the OS, and a separate Windows tool for the PCs. It&#39;s a bit annoying to maintain two workflows but trying to force one solution onto both platforms caused more headaches than it solved.&lt;/p&gt;

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