How to change my HDD to an SSD for my MacBook Pro ?

Thanks a lot again for reply. However it's causing additional couple of question.

1. Why Alfred and Caffeine shouldn't be installed? Very handy applications, I really like using them.

2. After I adjusted all from your advices, should I format SSD and and make completely new clone, or I can do it refreshing the existing one? It just should be a much faster to refresh existing one, it took me 3 hours yesterday to make a clone.

Thanks!

1. You can do same with the correct settings in OSX Mavericks. You must understand, that a lot of "windows" like tools, do not work the same in Mavericks as in earlier OS's: the Ram handling is very different.

2. When you do it with CCC, set CCC to 1:1 clone: everything that is not in your inside disk, should be removed from the clone disk. So you end up with an exact clone. It will take 10-15 minutes that way on an existing clone. You do not have to remove the existing files from the SSD.

The SSD was formatted Mac OSX Extended (journalled), GUID partition table, check that.

3. After making the clone, start from the external disk --restart while holding the Alt(=option) key-- and choose the clone, to make sure that everything is OK before you switch the disks. Shutdown correctly and switch the disks. Very careful reposition the connectors, they are damaged easily.

Lex

Thanks a lot, Lex, will try all from above later today and will respond on how is it going. And yes, I've formated SSD as Mac OSX Extended (journalled), GUID partition table.

Have a nice evening!

U2.

Hey Lex! Just installed everything like instructed.

Seems to work well. Just got one issue: when starting/restarting, before booting, I see completely white screen for approx 20 sec, then apple logo appears, and then it takes 3-5 seconds to boot. Do you think it's normal? Because for me it looks like some bug...😟

Thanks a lot!

Found the solution! All I had to do was go to my System Prefences > Startup Disk and Select my SSD and restarted now it boots faster than ever.

Many-many thanks man! It's much faster now!

Ofcourse, forgot that.

Great, very good ensemble now.

Lex 🙂