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Is Mac OS X v10.8.5 fully compatible with SSDs?

I'll be replacing a client's dying HDD to a 500+ GB SSD later today. I will be restoring from his external USB2 HDD's Time Machine backup to it.


Thank you in advance. 🙂

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 13.3" (9,2/MD102ll/A)

Posted on Oct 3, 2015 10:38 AM

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Oct 3, 2015 12:22 PM in response to antdude

I would remove the old drive and place it in an external enclosure. Install the new SSD. Boot from the external's Recovery HD using OPTION boot:


1. Restart the computer.

2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the

"OPTION" key.

3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.

4. Select the Recovery HD on the external drive.

5. Click on the arrow button below the icon.


Select Disk Utility from the Utilities Menu and click on the Continue button. Partition and format the SSD Mac OS Extended, Journaled. Clone the external drive to the SSD:


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

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

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

to the Destination entry field.

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

the Source entry field.

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


Destination means the new SSD. Source means the external drive.

Oct 3, 2015 12:23 PM in response to Kappy

Kappy wrote:


I would remove the old drive and place it in an external enclosure. Install the new SSD. Boot from the external's Recovery HD using OPTION boot:


1. Restart the computer.

2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the

"OPTION" key.

3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.

4. Select the Recovery HD on the external drive.

5. Click on the arrow button below the icon.


Select Disk Utility from the Utilities Menu and click on the Continue button. Partition and format the SSD Mac OS Extended, Journaled. Clone the external drive to the SSD:


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

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

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

to the Destination entry field.

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

the Source entry field.

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


Destination means the new SSD. Source means the external drive.

Ah, we need to partition and format it first. Wait, don't we need another partition for its recovery partition?

Oct 3, 2015 1:38 PM in response to antdude

The retail versions of widely known clone utilities from at least two makers

offer various abilities, so if you want to clone the system AND its recovery

partitions to another drive, check into the details and compare what those

clone utilities offered by SuperDuper (shirtpocket software) and Carbon

Copy Cloner, since these offer demo versions that have limitations, yet for

a fee you can get the better featured versions. I'm uncertain right now which

one, in its fuller retail version, has the ability to clone all OS X partitions to

another hard drive... So an existing complete installation may be cloned.


http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html


http://bombich.com/ advance topics= http://bombich.com/kb/ccc4


Since I've used both makers products in older Mac OS, but not in newer OS X

the need to clone the Recovery Partition is yet on the horizon in my computing.


Good luck in any event! 🙂

Oct 3, 2015 1:43 PM in response to K Shaffer

K Shaffer wrote:


The retail versions of widely known clone utilities from at least two makers

offer various abilities, so if you want to clone the system AND its recovery

partitions to another drive, check into the details and compare what those

clone utilities offered by SuperDuper (shirtpocket software) and Carbon

Copy Cloner, since these offer demo versions that have limitations, yet for

a fee you can get the better featured versions. I'm uncertain right now which

one, in its fuller retail version, has the ability to clone all OS X partitions to

another hard drive... So an existing complete installation may be cloned.


http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html


http://bombich.com/ advance topics= http://bombich.com/kb/ccc4


Since I've used both makers products in older Mac OS, but not in newer OS X

the need to clone the Recovery Partition is yet on the horizon in my computing.


Good luck in any event! 🙂

Thanks. I guess I will have to do a clean install of Mac OS X v10.8.x and then do a Time Machine restore from the external USB2 HDD backup.

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