If you want to transfer all of the data from your Mac laptop or desktop to another Apple computer, the easiest way is to use the Disk Utility tool to create an image of your internal hard drive. This imaging process is sometimes referred to as ghosting, because the Norton Ghost application performs the same functionality for Windows-based computers. Since Norton Ghost is not available for the Mac OS X operating systems, Mac users must use Disk Utility to ghost their computer. Writer Bio
