Carbon Copy Cloner Problem

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Carbon Copy Cloner Problem

Was cloning my Macintosh HD drive to a new SSD and it appears that clone worked. However, after the clone process was complete, the program suggested that I create a Recovery HD, which I tried to do. However, the task failed and the error message stated "Disk utility failed to resize the donor volume. Reboot your Mac, then try the task again." What exactly does this mean? Did my clone fail? Will my Mac boot from the cloned drive? Can I create a recovery drive once I complete the HD swap?

Posted on Nov 18, 2019 5:09 AM

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Answer 1

BobHarris

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Nov 18, 2019 6:22 AM in response to anitan1

The clone did not fail, but you may not have a recovery partition. That is to say you may not be able to boot holding Command-R and boot into a recovery partition to do disk repairs, re-install the existing OS, and other maintenance tasks you hope you never have to do.

Assuming you have a recent Mac, you should have Network Recovery (boot holding Command-Option-R) which will load a recovery OS via the internet, but that is more time consuming and assumes you have a reasonable speed internet connection that is not blocked by corporate firewalls.

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dialabrain

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Nov 18, 2019 5:14 AM in response to anitan1

You might want to contact CCC support.

https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5

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