Coning of internal hard drive of MacBook Pro

I can boot the MacBook Pro with an external pen drive with macOS Catalina installed. Can it be cloned on the internal SSD drive of the MacBook?

MacBook Pro 13″

Posted on Sep 15, 2023 9:55 AM

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BDAqua

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Sep 15, 2023 12:04 PM in response to om-prakash

Hello,

Carbon Copy Cloner seems to accomplish it...

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

You need to use "Legacy" mode to clone the OS also.

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