Installing a larger SSD, should I clone the existing?

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Installing a larger SSD, should I clone the existing?

I want to install a larger SSD to add Bootcamp and Windows 7 for work and gaming. I and am unsure whether cloning is the right way to mirror all the information from the existing SSD so it will run right out of the box.

Does anyone have experience with this or suggestions?

Thanks,

Ace

MacBookPro8,2

15" Matte Screen

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 16 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6490M VRAM (Total): 256 MB

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 128G SSD, 15" Early 2011, 16G RAM

Posted on Jul 2, 2013 2:00 PM

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Jul 2, 2013 2:12 PM in response to Ace from Stirling

Cloning is the preferred method.

Carbon Copy Cloner is the best software to do this.

You need a SATA to USB adapter to connect the new drive too.

Then you use Disk Utility to format it Partition: Partition Layout 1, click the box, Option: GUID and format: OS X Ext. J and the name MacintoshHD2 and click apply.

Use CCC and the default settings to clone.

Hold option/alt and boot up, use Startup Manager to select the clone to boot from.

Enable TRIM

http://www.mactrast.com/2011/07/how-to-enable-trim-support-for-all-ssds-in-os-x- lion/

Once your all fine it's stable and working, then do the hardware switch and option/alt boot and set as Startup Disk in System Preferences.

Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's

Then setup BootCamp, Winclone for Bootcamp etc.

Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?

Most commonly used backup methods

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If you get into trouble, option/alt boot off of whatever drive is out of the machine. 🙂

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