ssd to ssd cloning

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ssd to ssd cloning

I have had two 2011 17" MacBook pro 1st one new from best buy I upgraded memory and a 1TB ssd.

We all know what happened it melted down and took out the ssd also. I lost all my files and music (7500+songs) a DJ's nightmare. Well I don't learn well and went Emax for a used computer they talked me

into another 2011 17" used one they had I liked the big screen. new 1TB ssd and it lasted 6 months and

melted down GPU but ssd was good. Now I did some research and chose a 2015 MacBook pro 2.8 GHz, 16 GB, dual GFX AMD and Iris. 1TB ssd. I requested High Sierra. to match my old ssd now in a drive caddy.

Now how do I get the old drive to the new computer. Keep in mind I don't know of any back on the old drive I forgot I meant to do Time Machine can't remember if I did. Any HELP at all would be a GOD sent.

Thanks

Mike

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MacBook Pro 17″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Dec 2, 2021 11:47 AM

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Answer 1

HWTech

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Dec 2, 2021 5:52 PM in response to djMike53

You can use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to clone the external drive to the internal drive. You will need to boot from the external drive and use Disk Utility to erase the internal SSD. Make sure to select the whole physical drive and erase it as GUID partition and APFS (top option). Within Disk Utility you may need to first click "View" and select "Show All Devices" so that the physical drives appear on the left pane of Disk Utility.

After erasing the internal destination drive, you will run CCC to clone the external drive to the internal SSD. CCC will also recreate the hidden recovery partition.

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HWTech

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Dec 14, 2021 4:43 AM in response to djMike53

djMike53 wrote:

HWTech I have the new computer and did what you said I booted up with my old drive downloaded the free CCC program. Then went to disk utility and erased the internal drive. then used CCC 5 set up with both drives and clicked clone. It took about twenty minutes. It looked like everything is there but computer won't boot without the external drive. What do you think I did wrong?

FYI, Starting with Big Sur Apple has changed how apps like CCC can access & clone the drive now. At least with CCC v5, you must now Right-click or Control-click on the destination icon within CCC and select the "Legacy" option which will make the system bootable. This is because CCC must now use the Apple built-in tools to copy the APFS volume which work differently than how CCC worked before.

I'm glad you were able to resolve the issue with Recovery Mode.

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HWTech

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Dec 3, 2021 4:58 AM in response to djMike53

djMike53 wrote:

I must say this sounds scary to erase the new drive

A new drive should be blank or at least empty. A drive needs to be prepared for use no matter how the drive will be utilized. Just make sure to select the proper drive if you have more than one drive connected (macOS won't let you erase the drive you are booted from, although it will let you erase any volumes that are not needed by macOS).

and I’ll have get a copy of CCC I guess you download that to the old drive after I boot up with it.

Yes. You will run CCC from your boot drive and you can clone the boot drive. Just don't run any other apps or do any work on the Mac while CCC is cloning the drive to minimize issues.

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djMike53 Author

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Dec 13, 2021 5:16 PM in response to HWTech

HWTech I have the new computer and did what you said I booted up with my old drive downloaded the free CCC program. Then went to disk utility and erased the internal drive. then used CCC 5 set up with both drives and clicked clone. It took about twenty minutes. It looked like everything is there but computer won't boot without the external drive. What do you think I did wrong?

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djMike53 Author

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Dec 2, 2021 8:40 PM in response to HWTech

Thank you so much. I get the new computer either Tuesday or Wednesday next week and I will hop right on it. Today I did plug in the old driv to my Wife’s MacBook and all my files,apps and info and was to access a few to see if it works and it does. I must say this sounds scary to erase the new drive and I’ll have get a copy of CCC I guess you download that to the old drive after I boot up with it. Wish luck hopefully I’ll come back here and post good news😎

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djMike53 Author

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Dec 5, 2021 11:56 AM in response to HWTech

Well the laptop was delivered Saturday. Not the right one of what I wanted. It did not have the dual GFX card, I wanted the Iris plus the AMD R9 M370. So we are trying to work that out this next week. In a holding pattern. 😎

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djMike53 Author

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Dec 13, 2021 8:06 PM in response to djMike53

HWTech Thank you so much. I'm up and running on the new laptop. I reinstalled the os in recovery mode and BINGO...She works just fine with all my files from the old computer but better.

Thanks again

Mike

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