#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD HOW TO#
#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD MAC OS#
#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD PRO#
#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD WINDOWS#

If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is 'Verified' then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If it does not say 'Verified' then the hard drive is failing or failed. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. Step One: Repair the Hard Drive and Permissionsīoot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. you just need the restore command in disk utility but it goes further than that in great detail and i think this is the sure fire way for a successful clone. I think kappy originally wrote this for users and it worked great for me.

#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD HOW TO#

I couldn't find a clear posting on how to do this when I figured everything out last month. This will maintain a backup that is fully dual-bootable, should disaster strike (SSD failing, laptop stolen, etc.) You can set up scheduled clone jobs for both Carbon Copy Cloner and Casper.

#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD WINDOWS#

As an added, unexpected bonus, I didn't even need to reactivate Windows despite the hardware change.Īs a final step worth mentioning, your old HDD in the external enclosure is an obvious great choice for a backup drive. both OS X and and Windows booted successfully, and obviously much faster than they had previously. their faq explains everything.)ĩ) Swapped the hard drives so that the SSD was now internal.Īnd voila. (NOTE: Your Windows partition will not be bootable unless you do this. (NOTE: Windows can't boot from the external enclosure, so if you swapped the drives in step 4 like I did, you'll need to swap them back so that the HDD is once again internal.)ħ) Used Casper 6.0 to clone my to clone my internal HDD Windows partition to the external SSDĨ) Used Casper Explorer within Casper 6 to apply a Windows master boot record to the now-cloned Windows partition and mark the partition as active.

(Make sure it has enough capacity to receive all of the contents from your old HDD Boot Camp partition.)Ħ) Booted into Windows on the old HDD.

Just hold down option while powering up the computer and select the external SSD.)ĥ) Used Boot Camp Assistant to create the NTFS Boot Camp Partition on the new SSD. In fact that's a good way to verify the clone job worked.

#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD MAC OS#

Mac OS Extended, Journaled)ģ) Used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my internal HDD Mac partition to the external SSDĤ) Booted into OS X on the now-cloned new SSD drive (I swapped the drives to boot the SSD internally rather than via USB 2.0 for better performance, but you can boot it while still in the external enclosure.

* Casper 6.0 for the Windows side (not free)ġ) Put my new SSD in the external enclosureĢ) Used Disk Utility in OS X to format the SSD (the usual. * Carbon Copy Cloner for the Mac side (free)

#CLONE YOUR HARD DRIVE TO SSD PRO#

* SSD (mine was a Mercury Extreme Pro from OWC, their site has good tutorial videos if you want to see how to do everything) So neither will be able to clone your Boot Camp partition. Neither Carbon Copy Cloner nor SuperDuper! support cloning NTFS-formatted drives/partitions. Having just done the same thing, I can say that the previous replies are not fully accurate.

Clone your hard drive to ssd