How to pear TarDisk after it was formatted- with no pear installer

I wanted to create this post for people out there trying to use their Tardisk after it was reformatted.


Let's start from the top shall we. When I reformatted Tardisk the "Pear Installer" was deleted, so I contacted the company. On there website they said that they help to reinstall "Pear Installer" only once per customer- meaning if this issue happened again, you're on your on, basically.

However, I had to email them my oder # and serial # of computer, which I did. Desperate times, desperate measures, right!


After waiting for couple days with no response, I tried figuring it out and those are the steps:

(side note, the reason, I needed more space is for me to be able to run bootcamp which require 64GB on my mac to run windows)


(Also, please note that it's always best to create a backup for your files just in case even though I personally didn't need it)


Anyway back to the steps:


  • download CCC-carbon copy cloner
  • select source - your main operating system Mac OS
  • select destination - your SSD card
  • hit clone
  • sometimes it will ask if you want to download support file or create something always choose that option and never choose cancel or no
  • after it's done cloning go to system privacy and select startup disk- this is where you’ll select you cloned SSD card as the default for your device to use when running 
  • the system will ask to authorize- input password, then it will ask to restart; click restart
  • when your mac is back on, it’s now using the SSD card not mac OS to run. meaning you have two hard drive of the same content
  • delete Mac OS by opening disk utility , select your previous operating system (Mac OS) and choose erase. 
  • now your HHD is empty and can be used for other programs that require free space on HDD while your system is running using your SSD


LK



Posted on Aug 26, 2019 2:36 PM

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