How to clone my HDD to SSD when both of my USB ports are broken on Early 2011 Macbook Pro

Just for future reference ... CarbonCopyClone ($40ish, bombich.com) makes full clones of disks including boot sectors. It is smart enough to see the target is larger than the source and ask if you want to use all of the target instead of just the original size.

Did you try booting from the old disk via then using Disk Utility to resize an unmounted volume? https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/resize-a-disk-image-dskuc033a48f/mac

A duplicator might work. A lot of companies use industrial versions (some with multiple slots) to prepare drives for installation in computers by duplicating a master copy.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Duplicator-Function-EC-HD2B/dp/B0759567JT/

Other than that, another Mac and two USB enclosures should work. Just clone from the source to the target. It might not be bootable with the Mac doing the cloning, but it should be bootable in the system of the source drive.

I haven’t tried it before. Usually I would specify the partition size to maximum when formatting (Erase) with Disk Utility.

It might require a re-do.

For my 2011 MBP I use an external enclosure from OWC (macsales.com) ... https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/MSTG800U3K/ that supports FireWire 400/800. Any quality 2.5 in drive I want to use fits.

Has issues with USB 3.1 (at least when an SSD in the enclosure tried to exchange data too fast). But on my 2011 it works fine.

Usually it’s unformatted and I would format and possibly partition to the desired size. The clone can be to any size partition as long as there’s enough space.