MBP refuses to boot after SSD upgrade

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MBP refuses to boot after SSD upgrade

2011 15-inch MacBook Pro. Decided to upgrade to an SSD, so purchased a 1TB SSD from OWC. Cloned the original drive onto the new SSD using SuperDuper and then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the recovery drive onto the SSD as well. Now, when I try to boot into the operating system (Yosemite) I get the attached error. It appears briefly, then the computer reboots and brings up the kernel panic screen, then reboots and shows the error screen again.

If I hold option and choose the recovery partition, I am able to boot into the recovery drive just fine. Performing a "Repair Disk" on the SSD from the recovery drive shows no errors on the drive.

Please help - how can I get my clone booted up to its regular OS?

Posted on Aug 4, 2015 8:49 AM

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FatMac-MacPro

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Aug 4, 2015 9:08 AM in response to Jensen Gelfond

Have you considered using CCC for both cloning functions at the same time?

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Aug 5, 2015 7:41 PM in response to FatMac-MacPro

I took your advice and reformatted, using CCC for both the Macintosh HD clone and recovery partition, and it worked out well. Too bad I can't rely on SuperDuper anymore, but happy that the solution wasn't complicated.

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