The steps were explained well and it worked! The following is differences between my mac and the video to answer anyone else’s questions: My Mac was formatted in APFS, so I erased the SSD to APFS. Also there was “Macintosh HD” and “Macintosh HD-Data” in my internal drive, so I restored “Macintosh HD” to the SSD and it automatically restored “Macintosh HD-Data” with it as well.
So all the data from your old hard drive are now on your ssd? How do I prevent this? My Mac is also formatted in APFS but I still want to make a clean install..
Just updated my 2011 macbook pro to 16 gig ram and 1tb ssd. New battery as well. Thanks for the clear instructions and no suspect 3rd party cloning software. One of the best tutorials available.
I have watched several videos from UA-cam, but I did not understand clearly. With this video everything became clear to me. Excellent video, short, clear and very easy to understand. Thank you a thousand. The Beef
Thanks a lot, you managed to explain everything in 7 minutes. I started to watch other videos with unnecessary BS and had to stop them. Your video is the best, good job Bro!
Nice video, one comment for users on older versions of OS X. I'm running 10.11 El Capitan and didn't have the Restore button as an option in my Disk Utility. I had to click on the "Edit" menu at the top and found Restore there. Rest of the steps are the same.
I've just completed a HDD to SSD upgrade on my mid 2010 iMac 21.5" following your instructions. OMG, so easy to follow and complete. However, it took over 5 hours to clone all my data from the old HDD. I've upgraded the RAM to 16GB too now and it's like a new machine. I think I need to get back inside though - there is some fan noise, that's annoying
If you've changed the internal hard drive to an SSD then you'll need a fan sensor. The original HDD has the sensor built in so when you replace it with an SSD the machine doesn't know the temp and just runs the fan at full speed. Easy repair OWC do the sensor.
@@mxoh OWC is NOT a thermal sensor. It is a piece of firmware that tricks the Mac into thinking that you are using a genuine Mac HD. The $50 OWC cable/sensor is unnecessary. There is an ssd fan speed controller that you can install. Watch ua-cam.com/video/Rp77d0Sl6Fo/v-deo.html for the free download and instructions. Saved you $50. Pass it on.
This weekend I will be installing a 500GB SSD, 16 GB memory and new battery on a Macbook Pro 2011 15". This is by far one of the best videos and easiest ways to migrate/clone the data. Much thanks!!
Great video and very clear steps shown in the video. I’m restoring a 2011 iMac with a failing harddrive. With help from a Mac OS usb I was able to startup and repair the old drive. Surprisingly it wroked! Now I’m cloning the old Hdd to the new ssd, hopefully it will work. Thanks for the help
Want to say thanks. I was about to drop 5k on a Mac Studio. But was cheaper to get a ssd and speed up what I have. 2014 i7 32gb of ram and this sped it up. I still have to open it up and put the actual drive inside the Mac!
Excellent instructions good video. Left out the fact that if your hard drive is encrypted you will need to decrypt the hard drive before you can complete this process. Great video everything worked as expected
@@aronbraund363 Hi Brandon - I succeeded to make a clone and it work - but everytime my macbook starts it asks for the PW for the hdd - any advice how get rid of that?
You've convinced me I can do this. My first attempt was disappointing. I bought a 1TB SSD that was just 20mb smaller than the 1TB hard drive in the iMac. It refused to copy because of this. Second go coming up. This time with a 2TB SSD ... I'll report back if it was successful.
Thank you very much - especially for mentioning that the format types must be noted on the internal hard drive when formatting the SSD - I had a complete nightmare doing this missing that point trying to do after watching other videos but you mentioned that very clearly and that was very useful without which I couldn’t have done this 🙏🙏
Great video, do you have a video of M.2 drive being the new drive to be cloned and installed. Im guessing a adapter for m.2 is needed to usb and mac utilities process is the same. many people use M.2 drives with internal adapters.
Wow man thanks for this !!! Great video!!! Work perfect... I have a question now that I have the clone and my time machine backup on another Hard drive with 10T should I format my IMac ? Since everything is save on my SSD and my 10 T time machine? Or this is not recommended? Thanks 🙏🏻
Can you confirm that I don't need any external software such as Supre Duper of Carbon Copy to Clone my Internal Drive? I am in the process of upgrading the internal 1TB HDD drive of my late 2013 27 inch IMac and replacing it with an OWC Electra 6G 2TB SSD. Initially I intend to move all of the information from my internal HDD to an external enclosure with the SSD. Once I'm happy with the external SSD I will consider moving the SSD into the computer, replacing the original HDD, thus maintaining all of the original information. Sorry about the dumb question, but I am a relative novice in the regard!
This would've been great if I saw this before I did my upgrade. I always stay away from anything that's 3rd-party if I can do things natively. I did mine using a third drive in the mix to make a Time Machine backup to restore from after swapping the SSD in. That only took like forever
I am trying to do this, but for some reason on my late 2013 iMac I have 3 drives (1 x Macintosh HD & 2 x Macintosh HD - Data), which one do I choose? They are also APFS format too?? Please help
Hi - I have a 2010 IMAC 21. I have upgraded the Memory to 12GB RAM and the IOS to Catalina. Since changing to Catalina the IMAC is very very slow. My storage is 935 GB out of 1 TB. Do I need to upgrade the storage to SSD? if so would that also be 1TB or would 500 GB suffice?
hey, thanks for the video its very helpful. do you still need to do the restart into cmd R? its seems to be fine just doing it without restarting, or am I missing something?
I am putting a new SSD in my 2011 MacBook Pro and I have a question. If I do a clone will it transfer all of my videos and pictures along with all the files to the new SSD? And is that the best way to do it? Clone as opposed to install new operating system after putting all of my videos and photos onto an external hard drive etc. with time machine. Is one easier than the other and why would I want to do one as opposed to the other? So to summarize I have a 2011 MacBook Pro 13 inch that I’m putting a new battery, new ram. and a new SSD in. When all said and done I want all of my pictures, videos and everything on my current hard drive on my new one. What is the best way to do this in detail and order of procedure?
I plan to upgrade my HHD hard drive to SSD. My current HHD is 1TB. If I use this instead of the 500GB disk you are using will it still suffice? WD Blue 1TB 3D NAND SATA III 2.5" Internal SSD
After watching these videos, instead of spending over £1000 on a new iMac, I bought a used £380 iMac and a £60 SSD, my wife thought I was crazy but this setup has vindicated me.
Hi! First, thanks for your video. I have a question. I have already installed Mac OS on an external ssd SATA since 2 years and I’m currently using it as my default boot drive...now I would like to to buy a new ssd (m2) and clone my old external ssd sata to this new ssd M2. Is it possible according to you following the same procedure in your video?
Thank you very much your video is the easiest to install the new SSD I got one done successful but I got one more when I try to restart to get to MacOS Utilities by holding Commands and R key it come to open window like normal after the Apple logo show up the ask me my password then open the windows I bought this macbook from someone so don't know what they're do before. What's your advice? Thanks in advance!
Hi, I'm looking at doing this for a "starting to fail" internal HDD in my older iMac. My questions are: can I still clone the drive if it has bad sectors? And, if I do a clean install instead, is the data on the internal HDD still browse-able?
my internal drive is APFS so when i erased reformatted to APFS. there is no pop up about using in time machine and there is no options to select OS X Base system. Where do i go from here?
It keeps failing even though i am following this video to a T. Is it possible it just doesn't like my SATA PNY SSD? I am even following the advice from the comments below, formatted as APFS, restored from Mac HD not from Mac HD Data. So frustrating; WORK already! I wonder what would happen if i tried to restore/clone from the Data portion?
I try to format the old iMac hard drive into a new SSD Hard drive. The problem is the old iMac is not running, due to a logicboard problem. So, how can I copy all the information in the old iMac hard drive into a new SSD Hard drive? I bought another iMac recently. 2015 model
Once you install the ssd in your iMac internally, can you just take your old hard drive and put it in the adapter? This way you have it and just save what you need at the time. My old hard drive is mostly pictures that I don’t need to save on my new ssd but want to be able to access them. Please let know if the old hard drive will work in the adapter. Thank you.
I dont have the same but a similar one that has attachments for all the types of hard drives so you can be sure that your hard drive ll work...what you can also do is remove the dvd drive thats inside your mac and install the the new ssd in there...that way you ll have two drives..the new ssd as your main drive and the old one that you can format and use as a storage unit...... The dvd drive can be removed mainly cause disks become rapidly a thing of the past anyway and secondly cause you can always get a cheap usb dvd disk drive to use with any computer you own.
Tried doing everything you said, but I keep getting “ osstatus error 22 “ does anyone know a fix for it ? I tried everything, CCC, just installing in side the Mac and try to download the OS, putting an Big Sur installer inside the ssd, it just doesn’t work. Any help is very appreciated.
So, I started to do this procedure on this iMac. The old drive is extended/journaled. I erase the SSD to format to this and it succeeds. If I then choose to copy Mac OSX base system, and I then close the window to choose "reinstall Mac OS", then it complains I must use extended journaling. The "Mac OSX base system" reformats the SSD as "extended"???
Excellent video, but as far as I can tell, none of these procedures will work with Big Sur or newer OS... I'm still searching for answers... This process used to be easy, just clone to create a bootable drive. No more. So much for technology.
I thought following your info on here, I would be able to clone my new SSD with no problems. Wrong. Don't know what happened but it took 3.25 hrs to "complete" msg. BUT. it said failed. It showed nothing on the new SSD. I that, well I'll just erase it and use it for other stuff on my macbook pro. (was trying with my Mac desktop) BUT....I can't even erase it now. I donn't know. It seems so easy to just follow this guidence and all is well. Light blinks like mentioned on transfer, but NO GO!! I give up.
I can get a copy of base system fine, get ASRNewVolume 594 error msg when copying main hdd, then no room on disk msg. Great tutorial, something not right somehere though. Anyone else has this ??
I have restore 2010 mac mini i tried do it from backup I made I was getting crashing with x then tyed hard drive I had in it befor to SSD it worked i am gressing my backup was corrupt i made
I am stuck. I have a 2015 Macbook Pro that I bought an NVME adaptor for and installed MacOS without problems in 2020. Now, I am trying to put in another M2 SSD in it. I have an external enclosure but it uses USB-C. I have another Mac, but it has only USB-A, and I don't have a USB-A to USB-C cable. So I can't format the drive that I want to put in the Macbook. And even if I open disk utilities, the Macbook doesn't even see the drive, because it is formatted in exFAT.... Computers: Window and Macs... gotta love to hate them... 🤬
If you need to upgrade your iMac HDD with an SDD, the video is found here: ua-cam.com/video/aD9yC0cm_ec/v-deo.html If you need to upgrade the battery, SSD, or RAM for your Macbook Pro, the video is here: ua-cam.com/video/qp9wca1bYas/v-deo.html
hey I have a 1TB original apple hard drive bootcamped 2010 windows halfWIN half MAC I have been thinking about replacing the old HDD with a brand new SSD 1TB drive can I port EVERYTHING over to the new drive??? or is this just for transferring data and such?
I'm trying to not clone, but do the clean install. When I follow the steps for the clean install, and I "restore from OSX base system" (disk image) and this keeps removing the "journal" from my ssd. Your next step is to close and go back to the menu and install mac os. This step isn't shown in the video, but when I do it, it never works because The install of Mac OS required the drive to be journaled, but the previous step only removes the journaling.
Unfortunately with my clone, the Office for Mac did not come over as activated and would not give me the option to activate. I've read somewhere else that you need to use a specific cloning tool that does true sector by sector copying. Have you had any experience with this that you can share?
Great video. But when I erased my ssd and used extended (journaled) and then copied base system over it changed the ssd to just extended and I notice in your video the so did yours. But when I try to reinstall the Mac OS it won’t because it is not journaled. Anybody any ideas?
My original drive is in APFS but i seem to run into OSSTAUS ERROR 28 when i try and restore. Original drive seems to have 4 volumes but after reformatting new drive seems to have 3 volumes but even after adding a volume same error returns.
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The steps were explained well and it worked!
The following is differences between my mac and the video to answer anyone else’s questions: My Mac was formatted in APFS, so I erased the SSD to APFS. Also there was “Macintosh HD” and “Macintosh HD-Data” in my internal drive, so I restored “Macintosh HD” to the SSD and it automatically restored “Macintosh HD-Data” with it as well.
DAMN MAN! I should have gone to the comment section right away. I spent 30 minutes looking for this info in google. bless you!
Yes I needed this information too
So all the data from your old hard drive are now on your ssd? How do I prevent this? My Mac is also formatted in APFS but I still want to make a clean install..
Wish I saw this. I am in the middle of things right now. I saw both and picked -Data and restored from there. We'll see how it turns out.
Thanks for that, mate. Gonna test it now.
Just updated my 2011 macbook pro to 16 gig ram and 1tb ssd. New battery as well. Thanks for the clear instructions and no suspect 3rd party cloning software. One of the best tutorials available.
I have watched several videos from UA-cam, but I did not understand clearly.
With this video everything became clear to me.
Excellent video, short, clear and very easy to understand.
Thank you a thousand. The Beef
Yessir, Mr. Samuel. I'm glad it helped you out.
Thanks a lot, you managed to explain everything in 7 minutes. I started to watch other videos with unnecessary BS and had to stop them. Your video is the best, good job Bro!
Nice video, one comment for users on older versions of OS X. I'm running 10.11 El Capitan and didn't have the Restore button as an option in my Disk Utility. I had to click on the "Edit" menu at the top and found Restore there. Rest of the steps are the same.
Great tip. Thanks for sharing.
I've just completed a HDD to SSD upgrade on my mid 2010 iMac 21.5" following your instructions. OMG, so easy to follow and complete. However, it took over 5 hours to clone all my data from the old HDD. I've upgraded the RAM to 16GB too now and it's like a new machine. I think I need to get back inside though - there is some fan noise, that's annoying
Did you fix the fan noise ?
If you've changed the internal hard drive to an SSD then you'll need a fan sensor. The original HDD has the sensor built in so when you replace it with an SSD the machine doesn't know the temp and just runs the fan at full speed. Easy repair OWC do the sensor.
@@partywallsurveyor "Easy repair OWC do the sensor" can you explain? it doesn't make sense
@@mxoh OWC is NOT a thermal sensor. It is a piece of firmware that tricks the Mac into thinking that you are using a genuine Mac HD. The $50 OWC cable/sensor is unnecessary. There is an ssd fan speed controller that you can install. Watch ua-cam.com/video/Rp77d0Sl6Fo/v-deo.html for the free download and instructions. Saved you $50. Pass it on.
@@juicer52 nice
One of the best descriptive step by step explanations out there. Great job.
Brilliant tutorial on how to clone an Imac to a SSD drive, very nicely spoken with clear and concise instructions, thank you 😀
This weekend I will be installing a 500GB SSD, 16 GB memory and new battery on a Macbook Pro 2011 15". This is by far one of the best videos and easiest ways to migrate/clone the data. Much thanks!!
Thank you for watching. Hope it helps your upgrade.
OKAY SO THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO ON THIS SUBJECT....LEGEND YOU GET ALL CAPS
Thanks bro. The all caps is a great honor.
Great video and very clear steps shown in the video. I’m restoring a 2011 iMac with a failing harddrive. With help from a Mac OS usb I was able to startup and repair the old drive. Surprisingly it wroked! Now I’m cloning the old Hdd to the new ssd, hopefully it will work. Thanks for the help
As always another great video, this covers all the basics of a semester in Tech school after you cut away all the fluff.
Awesome
It worked for the MacBook Pro 2012 Mid year version too..
Solid state device rocks at rocket speed than HdD👍🏼
Want to say thanks. I was about to drop 5k on a Mac Studio. But was cheaper to get a ssd and speed up what I have. 2014 i7 32gb of ram and this sped it up. I still have to open it up and put the actual drive inside the Mac!
Fantastic. Definitely will run like new.
Excellent instructions good video. Left out the fact that if your hard drive is encrypted you will need to decrypt the hard drive before you can complete this process. Great video everything worked as expected
Do you know how to decrypt the HD?
@@aronbraund363 Hi Brandon - I succeeded to make a clone and it work - but everytime my macbook starts it asks for the PW for the hdd - any advice how get rid of that?
you are the man!!!! Nobody will tell me what tool i need it to clone the hard drive !!!thank you. thank you, and thank you!
Thank you! I'm new to Mac file system (although my first owned computer was Apple IIe clone), and your video helped replacing HD to SSD on 2014 iMac.
You've convinced me I can do this. My first attempt was disappointing. I bought a 1TB SSD that was just 20mb smaller than the 1TB hard drive in the iMac. It refused to copy because of this.
Second go coming up. This time with a 2TB SSD ... I'll report back if it was successful.
you saved my Imac bro, bless you🌺🙏🙏🙏
Just cloned successfully thanks to this tutorial.
Thanks for watching, Zeeshan. Appreciate the comment.
Thank you very much - especially for mentioning that the format types must be noted on the internal hard drive when formatting the SSD - I had a complete nightmare doing this missing that point trying to do after watching other videos but you mentioned that very clearly and that was very useful without which I couldn’t have done this 🙏🙏
Works perfectly on my late 2015 iMac running Big Sur. Thanks!
Great video, do you have a video of M.2 drive being the new drive to be cloned and installed. Im guessing a adapter for m.2 is needed to usb and mac utilities process is the same. many people use M.2 drives with internal adapters.
Thank's guy, your video was very important for my work.
Yessir. I'm happy it helped you out.
GOT IT ! again...if your old HDD format is APFS you should select APFS for your new SSD...extended journaled to extended journaled
I'm a Windows guy but this is a great vid on how to clone for Macs!!! :-) Mike in LA, Calif
great video, i was getting the error 19 validation message before i came here 👍👍
Excellent BeefMaster, well spoken and good description - Thanks a lot 🆗
THANKS, THANKS, and THANKS again!!! Although I have done this many times, it’s been years since I last did and I just couldn’t remember how! 👍😁
Wow man thanks for this !!! Great video!!! Work perfect... I have a question now that I have the clone and my time machine backup on another Hard drive with 10T should I format my IMac ? Since everything is save on my SSD and my 10 T time machine? Or this is not recommended? Thanks 🙏🏻
Can you confirm that I don't need any external software such as Supre Duper of Carbon Copy to Clone my Internal Drive? I am in the process of upgrading the internal 1TB HDD drive of my late 2013 27 inch IMac and replacing it with an OWC Electra 6G 2TB SSD. Initially I intend to move all of the information from my internal HDD to an external enclosure with the SSD. Once I'm happy with the external SSD I will consider moving the SSD into the computer, replacing the original HDD, thus maintaining all of the original information. Sorry about the dumb question, but I am a relative novice in the regard!
This would've been great if I saw this before I did my upgrade. I always stay away from anything that's 3rd-party if I can do things natively. I did mine using a third drive in the mix to make a Time Machine backup to restore from after swapping the SSD in. That only took like forever
Appreciate this video. Perfect information & steps. Very informative & to the point. You rock!
Thanks for being super clear. Worked perfectly!
What operating system do you have ? High Sierra?
Hi, on my système the disk utility doesn’t have the same options … it’s a MacBook Pro 17” 2011.. Monterey installed
Thanks. For copying an old HD to a new but bigger HD, do I use same steps?
Great tutorial! Short and precise. Thanks a lot!
I am trying to do this, but for some reason on my late 2013 iMac I have 3 drives (1 x Macintosh HD & 2 x Macintosh HD - Data), which one do I choose? They are also APFS format too?? Please help
Hi - I have a 2010 IMAC 21. I have upgraded the Memory to 12GB RAM and the IOS to Catalina. Since changing to Catalina the IMAC is very very slow. My storage is 935 GB out of 1 TB. Do I need to upgrade the storage to SSD? if so would that also be 1TB or would 500 GB suffice?
Extremely helpful and clear. Thank you!
hey, thanks for the video its very helpful. do you still need to do the restart into cmd R? its seems to be fine just doing it without restarting, or am I missing something?
Your voice is so happy!
Thanks!
Hey thanks so much for the tip!!
I am putting a new SSD in my 2011 MacBook Pro and I have a question. If I do a clone will it transfer all of my videos and pictures along with all the files to the new SSD? And is that the best way to do it? Clone as opposed to install new operating system after putting all of my videos and photos onto an external hard drive etc. with time machine. Is one easier than the other and why would I want to do one as opposed to the other? So to summarize I have a 2011 MacBook Pro 13 inch that I’m putting a new battery, new ram. and a new SSD in. When all said and done I want all of my pictures, videos and everything on my current hard drive on my new one. What is the best way to do this in detail and order of procedure?
Great video. When cloning...The SSD is now bootable? and can be installed in the IMAC?
My SSD did not immediately appear in the "Startup Disk" step, but after a restart (with Mac-R) it did.
@@LeoLopesLL Mine appeared in the startup disk but is taking forever to boot! I did a clean clone though so maybe it's updates?
But how do you backup windows10 and macos partitions?
I plan to upgrade my HHD hard drive to SSD. My current HHD is 1TB. If I use this instead of the 500GB disk you are using will it still suffice?
WD Blue 1TB 3D NAND SATA III 2.5" Internal SSD
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Hello , is this method able to clone the boot camp windows 7 partition to the new SSD ?
After watching these videos, instead of spending over £1000 on a new iMac, I bought a used £380 iMac and a £60 SSD, my wife thought I was crazy but this setup has vindicated me.
That’s great this could help you save some money. Thanks for sharing.
When these upgrades are done, is it possible to update the imac 2008 fully?
Hi! First, thanks for your video. I have a question. I have already installed Mac OS on an external ssd SATA since 2 years and I’m currently using it as my default boot drive...now I would like to to buy a new ssd (m2) and clone my old external ssd sata to this new ssd M2. Is it possible according to you following the same procedure in your video?
Hi..I watched your video and was nice..
After changing ssd can you still update the ios?
Thanks..
Thank you very much your video is the easiest to install the new SSD I got one done successful but I got one more when I try to restart to get to MacOS Utilities by holding Commands and R key it come to open window like normal after the Apple logo show up the ask me my password then open the windows I bought this macbook from someone so don't know what they're do before. What's your advice? Thanks in advance!
Hi, I'm looking at doing this for a "starting to fail" internal HDD in my older iMac. My questions are: can I still clone the drive if it has bad sectors? And, if I do a clean install instead, is the data on the internal HDD still browse-able?
nice video brother
my internal drive is APFS so when i erased reformatted to APFS. there is no pop up about using in time machine and there is no options to select OS X Base system. Where do i go from here?
It keeps failing even though i am following this video to a T. Is it possible it just doesn't like my SATA PNY SSD? I am even following the advice from the comments below, formatted as APFS, restored from Mac HD not from Mac HD Data. So frustrating; WORK already! I wonder what would happen if i tried to restore/clone from the Data portion?
can we fix the external hdd in iMac after cloning
if we have a bootcamp partition, will the partition been cloned too?
I try to format the old iMac hard drive into a new SSD Hard drive. The problem is the old iMac is not running, due to a logicboard problem. So, how can I copy all the information in the old iMac hard drive into a new SSD Hard drive? I bought another iMac recently. 2015 model
Once you install the ssd in your iMac internally, can you just take your old hard drive and put it in the adapter? This way you have it and just save what you need at the time. My old hard drive is mostly pictures that I don’t need to save on my new ssd but want to be able to access them. Please let know if the old hard drive will work in the adapter. Thank you.
I dont have the same but a similar one that has attachments for all the types of hard drives so you can be sure that your hard drive ll work...what you can also do is remove the dvd drive thats inside your mac and install the the new ssd in there...that way you ll have two drives..the new ssd as your main drive and the old one that you can format and use as a storage unit......
The dvd drive can be removed mainly cause disks become rapidly a thing of the past anyway and secondly cause you can always get a cheap usb dvd disk drive to use with any computer you own.
Hi Mate, to migrate from HDD to SSD to do we need the same capacity?
Thanks. Have a nice day
Tried doing everything you said, but I keep getting “ osstatus error 22 “ does anyone know a fix for it ? I tried everything, CCC, just installing in side the Mac and try to download the OS, putting an Big Sur installer inside the ssd, it just doesn’t work.
Any help is very appreciated.
If i replace the new SSD into the iMac, it should boot up as it would the replaced HDD? Just want to confirm that part...
If my MAC HD HHD is MAC OS PLUS, How I can clone it? Shall I use the format Journaled?
What about Boot camp windows partition will be transfer too ?
Can i just use the ssd to boot and stuff without putting it inside the mac?
If the goal is upgrading to SSD, is there a benefit to cloning over just restoring from a back up?
Wonder what macOS are you using? I need to copy Catalina OS from an external HDD to an internal SSD, can I follow your method? Thanks
So, I started to do this procedure on this iMac. The old drive is extended/journaled. I erase the SSD to format to this and it succeeds. If I then choose to copy Mac OSX base system, and I then close the window to choose "reinstall Mac OS", then it complains I must use extended journaling. The "Mac OSX base system" reformats the SSD as "extended"???
Excellent video, but as far as I can tell, none of these procedures will work with Big Sur or newer OS... I'm still searching for answers... This process used to be easy, just clone to create a bootable drive. No more. So much for technology.
I thought following your info on here, I would be able to clone my new SSD with no problems. Wrong. Don't know what happened but it took 3.25 hrs to "complete" msg. BUT. it said failed. It showed nothing on the new SSD. I that, well I'll just erase it and use it for other stuff on my macbook pro. (was trying with my Mac desktop) BUT....I can't even erase it now. I donn't know. It seems so easy to just follow this guidence and all is well. Light blinks like mentioned on transfer, but NO GO!! I give up.
Super helpful, thank you!
Very well explained
I can get a copy of base system fine, get ASRNewVolume 594 error msg when copying main hdd, then no room on disk msg. Great tutorial, something not right somehere though. Anyone else has this ??
Thanks, you made it easy 👏
Formatted external drive but don't have restore feature when in recovery mode [late 2008 macbook] Any help?
I have restore 2010 mac mini i tried do it from backup I made I was getting crashing with x then tyed hard drive I had in it befor to SSD it worked i am gressing my backup was corrupt i made
I am stuck. I have a 2015 Macbook Pro that I bought an NVME adaptor for and installed MacOS without problems in 2020. Now, I am trying to put in another M2 SSD in it. I have an external enclosure but it uses USB-C. I have another Mac, but it has only USB-A, and I don't have a USB-A to USB-C cable. So I can't format the drive that I want to put in the Macbook. And even if I open disk utilities, the Macbook doesn't even see the drive, because it is formatted in exFAT.... Computers: Window and Macs... gotta love to hate them... 🤬
Can you permantly boot from cloned external drive?
If you need to upgrade your iMac HDD with an SDD, the video is found here: ua-cam.com/video/aD9yC0cm_ec/v-deo.html
If you need to upgrade the battery, SSD, or RAM for your Macbook Pro, the video is here: ua-cam.com/video/qp9wca1bYas/v-deo.html
I have spent months studying speeding up Macs and found a fantastic resource at Mels Speed Method (google it if you are interested)
hey I have a 1TB original apple hard drive bootcamped 2010 windows halfWIN half MAC I have been thinking about replacing the old HDD with a brand new SSD 1TB drive
can I port EVERYTHING over to the new drive??? or is this just for transferring data and such?
Great video. Thank you.
Hi all I need a little help mine came up not enough space on ssd do I need a bigger one, it’s a 490 gb ssd ?
4 slots ram, i wonder if we can bump up to 32gig
I'm trying to not clone, but do the clean install. When I follow the steps for the clean install, and I "restore from OSX base system" (disk image) and this keeps removing the "journal" from my ssd. Your next step is to close and go back to the menu and install mac os. This step isn't shown in the video, but when I do it, it never works because The install of Mac OS required the drive to be journaled, but the previous step only removes the journaling.
hello is it safe if i do this on my mba mid 2012??
Excelente!
Muito obrigado!
I wasn't so lucky. APFS inveeter failed to invert the volume. Got a OSStatus error 22 as operation couldn't be completed.
Unfortunately with my clone, the Office for Mac did not come over as activated and would not give me the option to activate. I've read somewhere else that you need to use a specific cloning tool that does true sector by sector copying. Have you had any experience with this that you can share?
Great video. But when I erased my ssd and used extended (journaled) and then copied base system over it changed the ssd to just extended and I notice in your video the so did yours. But when I try to reinstall the Mac OS it won’t because it is not journaled. Anybody any ideas?
Did you find any solution to this? Because I have exactly the same problem. And now I can’t reinstall the OS.
Excellent
My original drive is in APFS but i seem to run into OSSTAUS ERROR 28 when i try and restore. Original drive seems to have 4 volumes but after reformatting new drive seems to have 3 volumes but even after adding a volume same error returns.
Can I clone a single partition and not the whole drive ?
Thx
Hi, will this enable 10.14 Big Sur as the OS?
nicely done .
my disk utility doesnt have a restore button
How long does it take to move 300GB into a 1TB SSD? It's been transferring for the last 2 hours and half way done.
clearly it takes 4 hours