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Q: Clone MBP hard drive for Mac Pro

I am attempting to clone my MBP (i5 Yosemite) hard drive to another hard drive for an internal bay on my Mac Pro (Intel dual quad). It seems as if my clone attempt went great however, when I boot my clone on my Mac Pro I don't have options to a mouse or keyboard. I tried unplugging the keyboard, and mouse then replugging but got no response. I also tried to reboot to see if it would recognize but got nothing. Other than that it seems as if everything booted, but all I can do is stare at the desktop. Its like the USBs are not reading or something. Any suggestions? Should I use migration versus clone? What am I missing? I would like to have the exact same image of my laptop on my desktop (not worried about them being in sync once mirrored.

 

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Tim

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Mac Pro Dual Quad intel

Posted on Apr 16, 2015 8:25 PM

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  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Apr 20, 2015 7:59 AM in response to youncester
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    Apr 20, 2015 7:59 AM in response to youncester

    youncester wrote:

     

    The wifi, and audio worked perfectly normal when I did a clean install to SL. It also works fine when I boot to my old hard drive. I used wifi (while on SL) to download Yosemite from the app market, and how can I screw up going to the app market and downloading Yosemite directly from my MP? I get I messed up trying to clone the drive from my MBP, but there is not much you can mess up downloading the update directly from the App store. Also, there is no third party hardware. Thank you for your help on this....

    I agree, downloading via the store should just work, I was unsure if you used other tools or just the standard 'download & run' install from the App store.

    If you went via a tool like diskmakerx.com to create a USB installer it could cause issues, but I'd expect others to have reported that.

    Apples own createinstallermedia should work well (& has done so in my experience).

    Create a bootable installer for OS X Mavericks or Yosemite - Apple Support

     

    I'd contemplate a full clean install of 10.10 instead of starting from 10.6, but it is probably getting to the point where you are bored of this & want help from the store or Apple . Use Disk Utility in the installer to wipe the boot partition before installing.

     

     

    Don't forget all the regular 'resets' that may alter how an Mac behaves…

    Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

    How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

    OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? - Apple Support (a side effect of this is that kernel caches will be rebuilt)

    https://support.apple.com/kb/PH14201 Incompatible login items - probably not an issue here but worth disabling the login items as a test.

     

    See if they have an effect before you start over… sorry it's unclear to me what is happening here.

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Apr 20, 2015 8:02 AM in response to youncester
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    Apr 20, 2015 8:02 AM in response to youncester

    P.S.

    Search around with the '[Model Identifer] & 10.10.3' in the terms. It's possible it's model specific.

    What model is it? The identifier is listed in the format MacProX,Y in System Information.

  • by spudnuty,Helpful

    spudnuty spudnuty Apr 20, 2015 8:31 AM in response to youncester
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    Apr 20, 2015 8:31 AM in response to youncester

    "The problem is with Yosemite... The Mac Pro works perfectly normal on SL prior to the update. "

    Exactly, there have been other posts of people losing WiFi and audio in Yosemite.

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