Q: Now booting MM (late) 2014 off External SSD; what should I do with the profile on my HHD?
As stated in the title, I copied my entire HDD onto an external SSD that's running off USB 3.0. Things have been working terrifically for months now, so I think I'm ready to wipe the original HDD partition that was made when I initially setup my Mac Mini and reclaim around 300GB of space that's just collecting dust. I'm just a little unsure about the best/ safest way to approach this and could use some guidance.
- Should I simply erase the partition using Disk Utility? Will that mess anything up?
- Should I leave a copy of MacOS on that partition incase my SSD ever fails?
- What will happen to the recovery settings if I wipe the original HDD partition?
Any advice is appreciated!
Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)
Posted on Aug 13, 2016 3:31 PM
Personally I would backup both the Internal HDD and External SSD to another external drive and set it asside before doing anything.
biggie101 wrote:
- Will that mess anything up?
1. Depends on how you initally setup and moved everything over to the SSD...?
1.a. If you formatted and installed a clean OS X onto the SSD, then used set up assistant to migrate everything over.
(then yes, it might be safe to delete the OS X and your data off the Internal HDD)
1.b. If you simply copied everything over to the SSD.
(then no, because the two drives could be sharing and relying on each other like Siamese Twins)
2. Depending on how you answered 1...?
It would make a good backup drive for the SSD.
3. That also depends on how you answered 1...?
If your answer was 1.a... then you should already have a Recovery Partition on the SSD.
Posted on Aug 14, 2016 7:34 AM