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Cloning BootCamp to new SSD

Classic Mac Pro (5,1) owner here (happy with my 12-cores, 48GBs, and GTX970. Whee!)


I believe I know the answer, but was hoping for confirmation from a voice or two...


In the box, I have multiple physical drives installed. My primary OSX drive is a 500GB SSD. I also have several 500GB spinning drives (7200 RPM, SATA) installed in the box.


I installed Windows using BootCamp onto one of the 7200RPM SATA drives, with some trial and error, but with ultimate success. Now, I'd like to CLONE that entire drive to a new SSD, in order to speed up the Windows OS.


I was planning to do this through Disk Utility in OSX. My question is: Will this break BootCamp? Or will the machine just simply 'see' the new physical drive as a bootable partition?


Should I use DD in a terminal window instead? Should I use DU from an OSX boot disk? What's the best option for success?


Thanks in advance...

Doug, Western Mass.

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Mar 13, 2018 5:29 PM

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Posted on Mar 15, 2018 4:56 AM

On 2012 and older models, the Hybrid MBR on the disk makes it bootable. On late 2013-2014 models, the disk can be either a Hybrid MBR disk or an EFI installation will work. On 2015 and later Macs, only EFI Boot is supported.

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