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Q: I want to move my OS drive to a drive.

I want to move my OS drive to a newer, bigger, faster drive. What is the procedure?

 

Thats pretty much it

 

OSX 10.8.5

 

Back story

The home drive is 1 TB 7.2K drive.

I cleaned as much off off of it as I could to get it down to 500 GB.

I wanted to move to a 10K,RPM 600GB drive.

Tryed to clone the drive with Lynx Clonezilla but since the source  (1TB) is larger than the destination (600GB) it refused to play, hence my question

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Jan 27, 2014 9:30 AM

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  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy Jan 27, 2014 9:34 AM in response to Verndawg
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    Jan 27, 2014 9:34 AM in response to Verndawg

    The proper cloning tool to use is Disk Utility's Restore option.

     

    Clone Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility

     

    Boot to the Recovery HD:

     

    Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

     

         1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue

             button.

         2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.

         3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.

         4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it

             to the Destination entry field.

         5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to

             the Source entry field.

         6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.

     

    Destination means the new drive. Source means the old drive.

  • by BobHarris,

    BobHarris BobHarris Jan 27, 2014 3:49 PM in response to Verndawg
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    Jan 27, 2014 3:49 PM in response to Verndawg

    Or Carbon Copy Cloner (very good file subset selection)

    Or SuperDuper

     

    You should also create a 1-2GB partition for the recovery partition, then use the Apple Recovery Disk Assistant to copy your current boot disk's recovery partition to the new disk's partition you created for it.

    <https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433>