I know that this video is now three years old or so, but just today, thanks to this video (and some other research, but mainly this video) I upgraded my parents' 2014 Mac Mini with its ancient mechanical hard drive to an external SSD. The last year and a half or so has seen their computer become nearly unusable. I had no desire for them to buy a new system as my dad is now 72 and my mom 70, and she uses it almost daily for a wide variety of things, but the speed of the drive was beyond insanely slow by this point. Just loading any program took minutes. So, with my MacBook and a new Samsung SSD in hand that I picked up on the way, I went there, turned this video on, and followed the instructions. The cloning process took hours as expected, but... it worked! I am not exaggerating when I say that their system, again a 2014 Mac Mini, feels as if it's a brand new computer. They are overjoyed, and I upgraded them after it was done to Catalina with zero issues at a speed never before seen when updating their OS. Again, I know other stuff is out there about this, but it was this video that walked me through it and that I used, and it worked flawlessly even today. Again, thank you! You have given a new lease on life to a retired couple with an aging system that now feels brand new.
I did it!! following this tutorial ,,, i cloned my Hard drive to a SSD drive,,, with the knowledge i obtained through tutorials on you tube,,, i then,,, opened my MacMini and replaced the Hard drive with the new SSDs,,, wow... what a difference... my computer starts in 19 seconds now... my speeds before W 39 R 94,, NOW W 489 R523... thank you for sharing your knowledge , it gave me the courage to do this on my own...
Just wanted to thank you for this! The Apple/NVIDIA feud recently "bricked" a lot of people's Mac Pros 5,1s this Summer. And the only possible fix required me to upgrade from 10.12 Sierra to 10.13 High Sierra. To be safe, I wanted to clone my boot drive to go through the big OS upgrade and also GPU driver upgrade on the new drive in case anything went wrong. Your method in this video worked perfectly for me and was an extra layer of safeguard in my troubleshooting process. NOTE: It did not work with my third-party mechanical keyboard (my Mac apparently never recognized my CMD+R from that keyboard). I had to borrow an old official Mac USB keyboard from a friend to accomplish this method.
This was useful, but in my case the password caused the internal drive partition to be 'locked'. So, you first have to select it (if it looks greyed out), then click Edit >> Unlock. Enter the password for that drive, then it will become 'enabled'. Now you can continue by selecting your new drive, and performing the restore. Additionally, I was doing the clone through USB, not thunderbolt or firewire.
This works the mans a genius I just created a bootable external drive using an HDD that I had. Now I am waiting for my Fledging 512GB SSD to arrive. Just watch the video a couple of times no need for special software.
Thank you. I am in the process of swapping my internal HD for an SSD. I'm glad I found your video and don't have to get any software. Very well explained by the way. Thanks.
Thank you so much, my mid 2012 MBP has been sooo slow. So I purchased a 1tb ssd and this worked flawlessly. Now I can continue using my favorite computer for my literary work.
Excellent and very practical explanation (including little details about when to start pressing Control R and when to let it go) of just what I wanted to know and, additionally, not using specialised app. Thank you.
It was exactly as you instructed. It is a new Mac Mini that I haven't used since it was given to me 2 years ago.. When I set it up it was obvious it could function even receiving photos for editing. Constant beachball. It only sets up an external drive, and the only thing that changes is the source you name for booting. 2 thumbs up!
I sent an email of this to my phone then followed the instructions as I breezed through. Before, with my MacMini I couldn't move from screen to screen without the "beachball swirl", but now it is faster than my Mac Book Pro. SSD forever. Thanks AVME
You helped. I owe you. Things looked a touch different on my 10.6.8 Imac, but it all worked out. REmember, folks, if you bring your clone drive around to someone elses computer, (or that older 4 gig model you still have) if it doesn't have enough ram, it will probably open up and then freeze, if you try to restart from the clone.
I cannot tell you how happy I am to have found your video. I've tried everything from superduper, time machine, and carbon copy cloner, and nothing worked for making a bootable clone for my 2011 Imac. Everything would freeze and lockup when using that disc as a bootable ssd volume. Thank you thank you.
Just finished this process for my 20017 as well as my late 2013 iMacs respectively. It worked on both although on my late 2013 the Disk Utility was somehow different. Now I have to swap the physical drives and see what happens. Again, thanks for your video.
Fantastic mate. Spent yesterday afternoon following this tutorial and now have a SSD drive in my old MBP 2010. Thank you very much for making this vid.
Couple of things. Firstly you don't have to rename the external drive - Restore will do that for you automatically. Second, selecting the startup disk does not "make the drive bootable" at all, it just tells the mac which drive to boot from, which is a totally different thing.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I don't believe newer versions of MacOS allow the last step (time machine). Due to how Time Machine expects a disk to be formatted. Following all steps here, I'm able to successfully create the bootable external. I'm able to use it as a startup disk, etc. However, Time Machine will not detect that bootable external as an option to use it for backups. Wanted to clarify this and possibly get your confirmation, in order to spare others the headache. Thanks!
Very informative, useful and clearly explained video on how to clone a Mac HD without having to buy backup software such as CCC or super duper. This video will no doubt benefit many Mac users. The part that is novel is the backup combined the clone of the original Mac HD and the time machine. But I am confused about the time machine part. If u have time to answer the following questions, I would greatly appreciated. 1) does the backup Lacie HD has two partitions, one is for the clone of the original Mac HD and one is for time machine backup and the two partitions have no relationship to each other? OR u had succeeded in creating a bootable time machine in a single partition? 2) If the two partitions are independent, then the storage requirement for the external HD will be the the sum of the requirements for cloning and backing up with time machine, yes? If the answer is "yes", then it will requires a lot of storage to support both. 3) have u ever restarted ur Mac using the cloned external Lacie HD containing an image of the original Mac HD and time machine? If so, what happened? 4) if u had succeeded in creating a bootable time machine, after a month, does it restart with time machine at day 0 or at day 30? 5) does the Lacie d2 internally contains two hard drives, arranged in RAID 0 configuration? I read it somewhere that Mac does not support RAID 0 and thus can not be used as a bootable internal or external drive. Is this true? Perhaps, there is problem in creating the so called partition table. If this is true, then the glyph atom RAID SSD, can not be used as a bootable external drive. Yes?
Thanks for watching ! Answers to your questions as follow . The main purpose of this video was to show how to create the clone image of the internal HDD to a external HDD . 1: The Lacie D2 cloned thunderbolt HDD was single partition for this demonstration , although you can create two partitions , reserve one for clone image of the internal HDD and 2nd one for the time machine backups . 2: The time machine partition will create backups of the main system HDD( for this demonstration the built in HDD). 3: Yes and it rebooted successfully with intact cloned image of internal HDD and time machine backup of internal HDD. In order for cloned HDD to be the main system drive you need to tell the OSX that it is the main HDD and then restart then at this stage time machine would be disabled unless you have created two partitions . 4: did not check . 5: No D2 Thunderbolt 2 4TB is not RAID drive, Mac OSX does support RAID 0.
AVME Videos Thanks for replying so promptly! From ur answers, my understanding is when the external Lacie clone is used to restart the MAC by holding down the option key and then select the Lacie external drive, the MAC dost not see the time machine backup at all and as a result, the MAC is being booted by the clone alone. Likewise, when the MAC is trying to recover a lost file from the time machine, the MAC does not see the clone. If effect, the clone and the TM behaves as if they are located in two different partitions on the same Lacie hard drive. The benefit is like u said having the bootable backup and TM on the same disks. However, the price paid is the External drive will need to have a size large enough to store the backup (which could be sizable) and TM. Is my understanding correct? Thanks again.
This is what I did after installing my Fledging M13 SSD into my early 2015 MacBook Pro. I installed the new SSD erased and reformatted the Fledging SSD in APFS format and was able to use the cloned external drive back to the internal Fledging SSD. I am running Catalina 10.15.6. Just go slow.
Sweet!! I used this when I replaced my 160GB drive with a new 1TB drive on my 2009, 13 inch. It works with El Capitan as well and I didn't need the cloner software. Great Job and Thank you!
Thank you, so if I cloned my internal hard drive to an external SSD drive and install it later in my macbook pro, after that install a new os like Big Sur using a usb, that wouldn't erase the entire SSD drive?
I have a 27" Model 17,1 with 2.12 TB Fusion Drive (128GB SSD paired with a 2TB 3.5" Drive). It shows 368GB used and 1.56TB free space so my 1.0TB SSD is quite large enough. QUESTIONS are 1. will both portions of the fusion drive be successfully transferred to the externally mounted Thunderbolt2 dock? and Question 2. Will the Recovery Partition be transferred, as well? Thank You so much for your video tutorials.
Thank you!!! Clear and precise instructions. On the off chance you are are still monitoring comments, would this also work for El Capitan OS ? Again thanks for posting this.
Hi thanks for this video. I did this for SSD and it is working externally when connected to USB but then when I installed it, it is not working. Folder with question mark is showing when I start my mac. Do you have an idea how to fix this?
Hi, I have tried to follow your video then come up with another question, is it possible to clone second partition in the same harddrive, and use second partition as the main bootable drive
I have a problem. When I installed a new, cloned disk in place of the old one, the computer did not want to start, giving a message to install a bootable disk. What needs to be done to make this disk bootable? any changes in BIOS?
Let's say I format the internal drive after cloning it to an external drive , then in would like to clone the external back.to the internal , is that possible ?
Yes it is. This is what I did when installing my Fledging M13 SSD into my early 2015 MacBook Pro. I installed the new SSD and reformatted the Fledging SSD and was able to use the cloned external drive back to the internal Fledging SSD see my initial comment above. I am running Catalina 10.15.6. Just go slow.
Great video, thank you so much for the useful tutorial! I'm a bit unclear about how you would go about booting from the clone in case the internal hdd crashes. In the video you instructed the operating system (within the internal hdd) to start from the external hdd, but if your internal hdd dies you can't do that. So can the cloned hdd boot in that case or is there anything else we might need to do? Thanks again!
good question ! in that case you would have to boot to the recovery utility and point boot OS from the external hdd/sdd . 2nd option is to install the external cloned hdd/sdd internally .
Power on Mac, holding option/alt key until you see all of the HDs (internal and external USB connected) then use mouse or arrows to select the HD you want to boot to. If you want your selection to become the default boot drive on start, hold the Control key as you select the drive to boot from. Agreed, great video.
Great job! Just what I needed to prepare for transitioning to a new, clean iMac from a 7+-year-old one. Unrelated question: what is the Yamaha device between your iMac and speaker? I have an old M-AUDIO FireWire 410 interface that is no longer supported, so I'm looking for a replacement option.
I have a 8tb hdd. Can I make one partition like 500gb and follow this procedure to create a bootable hdd or create a clone for later copy clone to main hdd in case of internal hdd failure?
The problem with having the new hard drive always backing up the old one, is that it gets all that use. I'd rather drag my new important stuff once every two weeks, or so. But then it's all about what the files are.
I follow the steps exactly but when I try to restore the internal drive it says not enough space to restore, operation failed. I have a 1TB internal drive but have only used about 220 GB and the new external SSD is 500 GB. Any advice?
thank you,, you make it look easy.... you are great.. i have a late 2012 mac mini, can i replace the hard drive with 2T SSD?, or can i replace with 1T + 1T ( two SSD drives internal).. i see some people are "adding" a internal SSD along with the existing Hard drive, i dont understand that way of doing it, but, i am not as computer literate as most presenters on "how To" you tube.. thank you for sharing your knowledge.. this video is great..
yes you can add ITB or 2TB SSD internally , if you have the right tools and patience then it's a easy job ., let me know if you are up for the challenge then I would direct you in the right direction.
Excellent Video Man! I have a early 2015 Macbook Pro Retina. Im trying to clone my original 128gb internal ssd drive to a external 240gb ssd. After I erase the external ssd in disk utility and then try restore from internal ssd, I keep getting a fail message, and saying something about not validating image. Is there something I am missing here? thank you
Very clear and informative presentation. Thank you for uploading. Just a question - if there is also a BootCamp partition on the internal hard drive, when it is cloned, will the BootCamp hard drive that contains a Windows OS be cloned into the external hard drive also, especially when it is on Timeline and the BootCamp is Windows is in used ? I suspect I already know the answer, but just want a confirmation. Many thanks
Thank you for your quick reply. I was wondering that when cloning the HDD, everything was copied to the backup drive, INCLUDING the empty unused space on the internal HDD. So, is there a way to just clone only the info/data that is on the internal HDD without copying the empty spaces to the backup drive ? Seems to be such a waste of space to copy/backup empty spaces from the internal HDD to the backup drive. If it is possible, is there a way to do it and does this need any specific program and also, will this be bootable or make it bootable ? Many thanks in advanced.
How to retain boot camp partition? I am using snow leopard, want to upgrade to el capitan , also to new ssd. I have bootcamp partition running window 7.
Can you do this with Catalina? Two hard drives show Macintosh HD and Macintosh - Data. I chose data and I get error message - could not change the partition type for /dev/disk3s1 -
Mine did not work so i though it would have been worth mentioning which he didnt that if you have your Internal Hard Drive Encrypted via FileVault like mine is it will fail. You need to unlock this first and it should work the second time. I have Mac OS Catalina so I did it on a the lastest version for anyone wanting to know if it works on newer versions. I also cloned to SSD Samsung T5.
Hi I have a iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) i'm having issues with the B/B/DEATH appearing every now & then, and as it's a 2011 model but I suspect the 1tb HD is possibly on it's last legs, the 1 tb Hd only has 250gb in use so far. Anyway I have just purchased an Evo 860 500gb SSD and will hopefully clone my iMac’s HD which is running OS Sierra and probably use it as an external bootable HD rather than strip it down to install inside following your easy to follow steps (fingers X in my case). My question is before Cloning the disk is it better to update to latest macOS Mojave or clone as is. Hope this make sense, Great video by the way. Any other advice is grateful.
My mac won’t start and created a clone ...now it is taking a long time to boot..,I’m not not sure if will boot ....this happened after I upgraded to high sierra
Nice video. Question: If I'm not using this clone as a source to do time machine backups is there a need to name the new harddrive the same name as the original internal HD? I just want to save a clone on an external HD just in case, but want to name it something recognizable to differentiate from the original.
If I want to replace my internal drive with a SSD, would I complete all the steps? Sorry if it's a dumb question. I wasn't sure if I would do the final step in regards to time machine. TIA
is it The Same Proses if You Are Cloning a Internal SSD To Up Grade To A Bigger SSD Internally When it is Finished Cloning / Backing Up Can You Just Shut Down Your Computer Pull The Old SSD And Replaces It With The New Cloned SSD Will It Boot up Normally Thanks
The cloning process through DU from my internal HDD to SSD worked beautifully on my iMac 2011.. Cloning for me took about 2.5hrs.. Now I'm getting ready to take my iMac apart and install the new cloned SSD to my computer.. Anything I should be aware of by doing this? Should be a straight install now correct? Your video was super helpful and informative..
Covers De Jubilo did you have to do anything extra besides just physically installing the cloned hard drive? I’m about to do the same thing. Take the cloned SSD and install it as the internal bootable hard drive.
try a different ssd or hdd , follow the process again and properly , don't give up on 1st attempt.Any further questions ask here or the community . We will help !
i want to use my PCIe SSD as a main drive (which operating system is installed on). i will erase the OS on my HDD. how do i tell my computer to start from PCIe SSD?
Hello. Just want to ask some suggestions from you. I'm no mac expert by the way. I recently bought macbook pro but it's just 128gb. I need more space as I do lots of video and photo editing. Is there a way for me to make it bigger? I mean, can I use my external hd and make it work as an internal hd? I want all the applications and basically the whole macbook pro to be dependent on it. Is that what you call "bootable" hd? If that's the case, if I switch on my mac, would it give me options which hard disk I want to start the mac up? I don't really want to use the external one forever, perhaps I want to use the internal ones at times. I might just use the external hd for editing and the internal one for simple jobs. Let me know. It would be better if you can talk to me if that's not a problem. Thanks in advance!
the internal flash drive of new macbook pro is soldered to the motherboard so it's not upgradable .External usb C ( thundebolt ) SSD is your only option now , as you use it for editing work is it possible to replace it with a higher storage space if you have recently acquired it ?
Thanks. I only have a normal external hard drive (WD Elements) and it's not SSD. Can I still use it? I can't replace it as it was just a gift for me (not really bought by myself).
Great video! Thank you! Subscribed :) I do have one question though; can you do this with a USB thumb drive? I'm going to upgrade the m.2 drive in my MBP and currently only have 40GB to backup. I plan on using a 64GB usb3.0 drive if possible.
Yes. I actually boot up from a usb on my old MacBook and iMac . In the computer and go to disk utility you can format and install an operating system on the USB just like any other hard drive
If you don’t want to leave the USB permanently plugged into your computer and switch around from one Mack to another you can still build up off of it by holding the option key down as soon as you hear the boot chime When you power on . A screen Will pop up that will allow you to choose between the internal hard drive and the USB drive or any other drive that you have hooked up, whether it’s A USB drive that you plug-in, Thunderbolt drive or an old-school fire wire drive or even a dvd I think.
I have the same problem as below. Bought a 500GB SSD but the internal drive is 1TB. Only around 200GB used on the internal drive but it comes up with an error about not enough space. What to do??????
I know that this video is now three years old or so, but just today, thanks to this video (and some other research, but mainly this video) I upgraded my parents' 2014 Mac Mini with its ancient mechanical hard drive to an external SSD. The last year and a half or so has seen their computer become nearly unusable. I had no desire for them to buy a new system as my dad is now 72 and my mom 70, and she uses it almost daily for a wide variety of things, but the speed of the drive was beyond insanely slow by this point. Just loading any program took minutes. So, with my MacBook and a new Samsung SSD in hand that I picked up on the way, I went there, turned this video on, and followed the instructions. The cloning process took hours as expected, but... it worked! I am not exaggerating when I say that their system, again a 2014 Mac Mini, feels as if it's a brand new computer. They are overjoyed, and I upgraded them after it was done to Catalina with zero issues at a speed never before seen when updating their OS. Again, I know other stuff is out there about this, but it was this video that walked me through it and that I used, and it worked flawlessly even today. Again, thank you! You have given a new lease on life to a retired couple with an aging system that now feels brand new.
I did it!! following this tutorial ,,, i cloned my Hard drive to a SSD drive,,, with the knowledge i obtained through tutorials on you tube,,, i then,,, opened my MacMini and replaced the Hard drive with the new SSDs,,, wow... what a difference... my computer starts in 19 seconds now... my speeds before W 39 R 94,, NOW W 489 R523... thank you for sharing your knowledge , it gave me the courage to do this on my own...
Cheers , glad to know you have a faster computer now.
Just wanted to thank you for this! The Apple/NVIDIA feud recently "bricked" a lot of people's Mac Pros 5,1s this Summer. And the only possible fix required me to upgrade from 10.12 Sierra to 10.13 High Sierra. To be safe, I wanted to clone my boot drive to go through the big OS upgrade and also GPU driver upgrade on the new drive in case anything went wrong.
Your method in this video worked perfectly for me and was an extra layer of safeguard in my troubleshooting process.
NOTE: It did not work with my third-party mechanical keyboard (my Mac apparently never recognized my CMD+R from that keyboard). I had to borrow an old official Mac USB keyboard from a friend to accomplish this method.
Glad to hear it worked for you , thanks for watching & leaving detailed comment , it helps the youtube community
That was the greatest, simplest tutorial ever. Clear concise, and easy.
Thanks for watching.
This was useful, but in my case the password caused the internal drive partition to be 'locked'. So, you first have to select it (if it looks greyed out), then click Edit >> Unlock. Enter the password for that drive, then it will become 'enabled'. Now you can continue by selecting your new drive, and performing the restore. Additionally, I was doing the clone through USB, not thunderbolt or firewire.
This works the mans a genius I just created a bootable external drive using an HDD that I had. Now I am waiting for my Fledging 512GB SSD to arrive. Just watch the video a couple of times no need for special software.
Thank you. I am in the process of swapping my internal HD for an SSD. I'm glad I found your video and don't have to get any software.
Very well explained by the way.
Thanks.
Thank you so much, my mid 2012 MBP has been sooo slow. So I purchased a 1tb ssd and this worked flawlessly. Now I can continue using my favorite computer for my literary work.
Thanks for watching.
Excellent and very practical explanation (including little details about when to start pressing Control R and when to let it go) of just what I wanted to know and, additionally, not using specialised app. Thank you.
Glad to hear it helped you , thanks for watching and nice comment .
Yours is one of the best step-by-step tutorials I have watched. Thank you.
It was exactly as you instructed. It is a new Mac Mini that I haven't used since it was given to me 2 years ago.. When I set it up it was obvious it could function even receiving photos for editing. Constant beachball. It only sets up an external drive, and the only thing that changes is the source you name for booting. 2 thumbs up!
I sent an email of this to my phone then followed the instructions as I breezed through.
Before, with my MacMini I couldn't move from screen to screen without the "beachball swirl", but now it is faster than my Mac Book Pro. SSD forever. Thanks AVME
I am running Catalina. And it made the computer slow.
Best and clearest video I’ve found explaining this!
glad it helped.
This is fantastic! No messing around with third party apps and pretty darn simple too! Thanks a bunch~
You helped. I owe you. Things looked a touch different on my 10.6.8 Imac, but it all worked out. REmember, folks, if you bring your clone drive around to someone elses computer, (or that older 4 gig model you still have) if it doesn't have enough ram, it will probably open up and then freeze, if you try to restart from the clone.
I followed step by step your instructions and the result is fantastic. Thank you.
I cannot tell you how happy I am to have found your video. I've tried everything from superduper, time machine, and carbon copy cloner, and nothing worked for making a bootable clone for my 2011 Imac. Everything would freeze and lockup when using that disc as a bootable ssd volume. Thank you thank you.
Cheers ! Thanks for watching .
Just finished this process for my 20017 as well as my late 2013 iMacs respectively. It worked on both although on my late 2013 the Disk Utility was somehow different.
Now I have to swap the physical drives and see what happens.
Again, thanks for your video.
Fantastic mate. Spent yesterday afternoon following this tutorial and now have a SSD drive in my old MBP 2010. Thank you very much for making this vid.
Cheers !
Look at that crazy screen on the left. I hope you've figured out some cool art to put on that blank wall by now.
Worked well for me - thank you for uploading this
Glad to know it worked for you , thanks for watching .
HELLO EXCELLENT VIDEO, I JUST FINISHED CLONING A 2TB 2.5 SEAGATE "FIRE CUDA THANKS TO YOUR PERFECT GUIDANCE.
THANK YOU.
Wow! I thought my 27inch screen was big but that's a cinema he's got in front of him!
OMG!! my mac is so fast now, it’s unbelievable, a sandisk 1TB external ssd was £240 now £107 on Amazon prime, absolute bargain, and it works
By the way... WHAT is that HUGE and WIDE beautiful display you are using? Looks Great!!!
I wished I would have found your video before! I never trusted to do this kind of things, but you were very clear. Thanks!!
Cheers !
I haven't doe it yet but you done an excellent job I been looking for an easy way to install my SSD I get back and see how it goes!
Brilliant, accurate, easy to follow! Thank you very much, MMG
Couple of things. Firstly you don't have to rename the external drive - Restore will do that for you automatically. Second, selecting the startup disk does not "make the drive bootable" at all, it just tells the mac which drive to boot from, which is a totally different thing.
Thanks for the clarification. Am I correct in thinking that if you clone a bootable drive the clone should, by definition, be also bootable?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I don't believe newer versions of MacOS allow the last step (time machine). Due to how Time Machine expects a disk to be formatted.
Following all steps here, I'm able to successfully create the bootable external. I'm able to use it as a startup disk, etc. However, Time Machine will not detect that bootable external as an option to use it for backups.
Wanted to clarify this and possibly get your confirmation, in order to spare others the headache.
Thanks!
Great video, very clear instructions. Once done, can you just swap the drives?
Very informative, useful and clearly explained video on how to clone a Mac HD without having to buy backup software such as CCC or super duper. This video will no doubt benefit many Mac users. The part that is novel is the backup combined the clone of the original Mac HD and the time machine. But I am confused about the time machine part. If u have time to answer the following questions, I would greatly appreciated.
1) does the backup Lacie HD has two partitions, one is for the clone of the original Mac HD and one is for time machine backup and the two partitions have no relationship to each other? OR u had succeeded in creating a bootable time machine in a single partition?
2) If the two partitions are independent, then the storage requirement for the external HD will be the the sum of the requirements for cloning and backing up with time machine, yes? If the answer is "yes", then it will requires a lot of storage to support both.
3) have u ever restarted ur Mac using the cloned external Lacie HD containing an image of the original Mac HD and time machine? If so, what happened?
4) if u had succeeded in creating a bootable time machine, after a month, does it restart with time machine at day 0 or at day 30?
5) does the Lacie d2 internally contains two hard drives, arranged in RAID 0 configuration? I read it somewhere that Mac does not support RAID 0 and thus can not be used as a bootable internal or external drive. Is this true? Perhaps, there is problem in creating the so called partition table. If this is true, then the glyph atom RAID SSD, can not be used as a bootable external drive. Yes?
Thanks for watching !
Answers to your questions as follow . The main purpose of this video was to show how to create the clone image of the internal HDD to a external HDD .
1: The Lacie D2 cloned thunderbolt HDD was single partition for this demonstration , although you can create two partitions , reserve one for clone image of the internal HDD and 2nd one for the time machine backups .
2: The time machine partition will create backups of the main system HDD( for this demonstration the built in HDD).
3: Yes and it rebooted successfully with intact cloned image of internal HDD and time machine backup of internal HDD. In order for cloned HDD to be the main system drive you need to tell the OSX that it is the main HDD and then restart then at this stage time machine would be disabled unless you have created two partitions .
4: did not check .
5: No D2 Thunderbolt 2 4TB is not RAID drive, Mac OSX does support RAID 0.
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Thanks for replying so promptly!
From ur answers, my understanding is when the external Lacie clone is used to restart the MAC by holding down the option key and then select the Lacie external drive, the MAC dost not see the time machine backup at all and as a result, the MAC is being booted by the clone alone. Likewise, when the MAC is trying to recover a lost file from the time machine, the MAC does not see the clone. If effect, the clone and the TM behaves as if they are located in two different partitions on the same Lacie hard drive.
The benefit is like u said having the bootable backup and TM on the same disks. However, the price paid is the External drive will need to have a size large enough to store the backup (which could be sizable) and TM.
Is my understanding correct?
Thanks again.
Correct !
This is what I did after installing my Fledging M13 SSD into my early 2015 MacBook Pro. I installed the new SSD erased and reformatted the Fledging SSD in APFS format and was able to use the cloned external drive back to the internal Fledging SSD. I am running Catalina 10.15.6. Just go slow.
Sweet!! I used this when I replaced my 160GB drive with a new 1TB drive on my 2009, 13 inch. It works with El Capitan as well and I didn't need the cloner software. Great Job and Thank you!
Cheers !
you can also hold T on start up (if your computer is not booting into recovery) and it will read your hard drive.
Fantastic video, good calm voice.
Just upgraded from hdd to ssd and it works!
Thank you.
Thanks for watching !
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have cloned two drives now thanks so much :)
Glad to know it worked for you too , thanks for watching !
It worked perfect but you didn't explain how to restore a computer after one has replaced a failed hard drive?
Thank you, so if I cloned my internal hard drive to an external SSD drive and install it later in my macbook pro, after that install a new os like Big Sur using a usb, that wouldn't erase the entire SSD drive?
Super job you put the process in a very organized manner. Thanks
I have a 27" Model 17,1 with 2.12 TB Fusion Drive (128GB SSD paired with a 2TB 3.5" Drive). It shows 368GB used and 1.56TB free space so my 1.0TB SSD is quite large enough. QUESTIONS are 1. will both portions of the fusion drive be successfully transferred to the externally mounted Thunderbolt2 dock? and Question 2. Will the Recovery Partition be transferred, as well? Thank You so much for your video tutorials.
Worked and was super easy after watching your video .. Thanks ..
Cloned my mac min HDD to SSD and replaced..
Cheers !
So does this backup all of the data from the computer for example Photobooth pictures and videos?
yes this clones the entire hard drive.
Thank you!!! Clear and precise instructions. On the off chance you are are still monitoring comments, would this also work for El Capitan OS ? Again thanks for posting this.
Hi thanks for this video. I did this for SSD and it is working externally when connected to USB but then when I installed it, it is not working. Folder with question mark is showing when I start my mac. Do you have an idea how to fix this?
Good info, but a closeup of your screen so it can be seen what your selecting would have made this video much better.
Okay will make better close up videos .
i couldnt use my usb flash drive for startup disk because if wont show up , wouldnt it need to be mac os ex. journaled, not APFS?
Hi, I have tried to follow your video then come up with another question, is it possible to clone second partition in the same harddrive, and use second partition as the main bootable drive
It is better I hear to use a separate external harddrive than the one used for the clone for time machine backups, do you agree?
I have a problem. When I installed a new, cloned disk in place of the old one, the computer did not want to start, giving a message to install a bootable disk. What needs to be done to make this disk bootable? any changes in BIOS?
Thanks for the video it solved me trying to install a bootable 2.5” crucial SSD MX500 1000gb drive into my 13” MacBook pro mid-2012. Much Aloha
Cheers !
Simple, clear and absolutely useful!
Let's say I format the internal drive after cloning it to an external drive , then in would like to clone the external back.to the internal , is that possible ?
Yes it is. This is what I did when installing my Fledging M13 SSD into my early 2015 MacBook Pro. I installed the new SSD and reformatted the Fledging SSD and was able to use the cloned external drive back to the internal Fledging SSD see my initial comment above. I am running Catalina 10.15.6. Just go slow.
I'm doing this and it seems like disk utility is stuck near the end "replicating" how long should I wait before I like reboot or something?
Hi thank you very much for the great video. I was just wondering when you are restoring from internal to external, the macOS also gets copied right?
Great video, thank you so much for the useful tutorial! I'm a bit unclear about how you would go about booting from the clone in case the internal hdd crashes. In the video you instructed the operating system (within the internal hdd) to start from the external hdd, but if your internal hdd dies you can't do that. So can the cloned hdd boot in that case or is there anything else we might need to do? Thanks again!
good question ! in that case you would have to boot to the recovery utility and point boot OS from the external hdd/sdd . 2nd option is to install the external cloned hdd/sdd internally .
Power on Mac, holding option/alt key until you see all of the HDs (internal and external USB connected) then use mouse or arrows to select the HD you want to boot to. If you want your selection to become the default boot drive on start, hold the Control key as you select the drive to boot from.
Agreed, great video.
Does the clone include the software and any files as well or the cloning would just clone the OS?
Great job! Just what I needed to prepare for transitioning to a new, clean iMac from a 7+-year-old one. Unrelated question: what is the Yamaha device between your iMac and speaker? I have an old M-AUDIO FireWire 410 interface that is no longer supported, so I'm looking for a replacement option.
Can I plug the external clone of my iMac drive into my Macbook Air, and boot the laptop with it?
With a wireless keyboard can I do the recovery mode the Mac detect the keyboard on the boot?
I have a 8tb hdd. Can I make one partition like 500gb and follow this procedure to create a bootable hdd or create a clone for later copy clone to main hdd in case of internal hdd failure?
hi it's helpful video. can you advice how to clone MacBook pro 2011 hard drive running high sierra to ssd for upgrade
The problem with having the new hard drive always backing up the old one, is that it gets all that use. I'd rather drag my new important stuff once every two weeks, or so. But then it's all about what the files are.
I follow the steps exactly but when I try to restore the internal drive it says not enough space to restore, operation failed. I have a 1TB internal drive but have only used about 220 GB and the new external SSD is 500 GB. Any advice?
thank you,, you make it look easy.... you are great.. i have a late 2012 mac mini, can i replace the hard drive with 2T SSD?, or can i replace with 1T + 1T ( two SSD drives internal).. i see some people are "adding" a internal SSD along with the existing Hard drive, i dont understand that way of doing it, but, i am not as computer literate as most presenters on "how To" you tube.. thank you for sharing your knowledge.. this video is great..
yes you can add ITB or 2TB SSD internally , if you have the right tools and patience then it's a easy job ., let me know if you are up for the challenge then I would direct you in the right direction.
Excellent Video Man! I have a early 2015 Macbook Pro Retina. Im trying to clone my original 128gb internal ssd drive to a external 240gb ssd. After I erase the external ssd in disk utility and then try restore from internal ssd, I keep getting a fail message, and saying something about not validating image. Is there something I am missing here? thank you
Very clear and informative presentation. Thank you for uploading.
Just a question - if there is also a BootCamp partition on the internal hard drive, when it is cloned, will the BootCamp hard drive that contains a Windows OS be cloned into the external hard drive also, especially when it is on Timeline and the BootCamp is Windows is in used ?
I suspect I already know the answer, but just want a confirmation. Many thanks
Thanks for watching and asking this question , yes what ever is on the main HDD will be cloned to the external HDD.
Thank you for your quick reply. I was wondering that when cloning the HDD, everything was copied to the backup drive, INCLUDING the empty unused space on the internal HDD. So, is there a way to just clone only the info/data that is on the internal HDD without copying the empty spaces to the backup drive ? Seems to be such a waste of space to copy/backup empty spaces from the internal HDD to the backup drive.
If it is possible, is there a way to do it and does this need any specific program and also, will this be bootable or make it bootable ?
Many thanks in advanced.
How to retain boot camp partition? I am using snow leopard, want to upgrade to el capitan , also to new ssd. I have bootcamp partition running window 7.
Can you do this with Catalina? Two hard drives show Macintosh HD and Macintosh - Data. I chose data and I get error message - could not change the partition type for /dev/disk3s1 -
Awesome Tutorial!!! Well done!!!
BTW What make and model is that nice display on the left side of this video?
Thank you!
what monitor is that ? is that the new Curved SAMSUNG MONITOR?
This is actually very good folks. Pay attention.
Mine did not work so i though it would have been worth mentioning which he didnt that if you have your Internal Hard Drive Encrypted via FileVault like mine is it will fail. You need to unlock this first and it should work the second time. I have Mac OS Catalina so I did it on a the lastest version for anyone wanting to know if it works on newer versions. I also cloned to SSD Samsung T5.
Great tutorial - very well explained!
Glad it was helpful!
I am having a great deal of trouble creating a clone for imac 2019 macOS 10.14 Mojave, any ideas?
Hi
I have a iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) i'm having issues with the B/B/DEATH appearing every now & then, and as it's a 2011 model but I suspect the 1tb HD is possibly on it's last legs, the 1 tb Hd only has 250gb in use so far. Anyway I have just purchased an Evo 860 500gb SSD and will hopefully clone my iMac’s HD which is running OS Sierra and probably use it as an external bootable HD rather than strip it down to install inside following your easy to follow steps (fingers X in my case).
My question is before Cloning the disk is it better to update to latest macOS Mojave or clone as is.
Hope this make sense, Great video by the way.
Any other advice is grateful.
Can i do from external to internal the same thing ?
Would this method work on older versions of Mac like yosimete ?Thank you for the video by the way
Does this external bootable work fine with sleep?
My mac won’t start and created a clone ...now it is taking a long time to boot..,I’m not not sure if will boot ....this happened after I upgraded to high sierra
Nice video. Question: If I'm not using this clone as a source to do time machine backups is there a need to name the new harddrive the same name as the original internal HD? I just want to save a clone on an external HD just in case, but want to name it something recognizable to differentiate from the original.
My God, please tell me what that huge screen on the left is?
I cloned my HD to a SSD when I try use it as my start up disc I get a circle with a line through it
Everything works up to the point where I go to restore from the source and it says the source disk is not mounted. What now?
If I want to replace my internal drive with a SSD, would I complete all the steps? Sorry if it's a dumb question. I wasn't sure if I would do the final step in regards to time machine. TIA
yes just follow the steps in video , for time machine you can setup later at any stage.
is it The Same Proses if You Are Cloning a Internal SSD To Up Grade To A Bigger SSD Internally When it is Finished Cloning / Backing Up Can You Just Shut Down Your Computer Pull The Old SSD And Replaces It With The New Cloned SSD Will It Boot up Normally Thanks
Yes .
Thanks for this video. I followed your instructions and it worked out very well!!!
The cloning process through DU from my internal HDD to SSD worked beautifully on my iMac 2011.. Cloning for me took about 2.5hrs.. Now I'm getting ready to take my iMac apart and install the new cloned SSD to my computer.. Anything I should be aware of by doing this? Should be a straight install now correct? Your video was super helpful and informative..
Covers De Jubilo did you have to do anything extra besides just physically installing the cloned hard drive? I’m about to do the same thing. Take the cloned SSD and install it as the internal bootable hard drive.
Very well presented and clear. Thank you.
Didnt work. Am on Lion 10.7.5 and was able to copy the internal, but get the kernal error black page of death....
try a different ssd or hdd , follow the process again and properly , don't give up on 1st attempt.Any further questions ask here or the community . We will help !
if i accidentally tyoe the name wrong like mis a letter, will it mess it up?
what if guid is not available. I only have two drop down menus
Hi great video. Will this work with El Capitan. Cheers
Yes it would.
Good video with clear instruction. Unfortunately it didn't work :(
i want to use my PCIe SSD as a main drive (which operating system is installed on). i will erase the OS on my HDD. how do i tell my computer to start from PCIe SSD?
Hello. Just want to ask some suggestions from you. I'm no mac expert by the way. I recently bought macbook pro but it's just 128gb. I need more space as I do lots of video and photo editing. Is there a way for me to make it bigger? I mean, can I use my external hd and make it work as an internal hd? I want all the applications and basically the whole macbook pro to be dependent on it. Is that what you call "bootable" hd? If that's the case, if I switch on my mac, would it give me options which hard disk I want to start the mac up? I don't really want to use the external one forever, perhaps I want to use the internal ones at times. I might just use the external hd for editing and the internal one for simple jobs. Let me know. It would be better if you can talk to me if that's not a problem. Thanks in advance!
the internal flash drive of new macbook pro is soldered to the motherboard so it's not upgradable .External usb C ( thundebolt ) SSD is your only option now , as you use it for editing work is it possible to replace it with a higher storage space if you have recently acquired it ?
Thanks. I only have a normal external hard drive (WD Elements) and it's not SSD. Can I still use it? I can't replace it as it was just a gift for me (not really bought by myself).
Great video! Thank you! Subscribed :)
I do have one question though; can you do this with a USB thumb drive? I'm going to upgrade the m.2 drive in my MBP and currently only have 40GB to backup. I plan on using a 64GB usb3.0 drive if possible.
I think that if you have enough memory (like a hundred gb.) it should. If it doesn't work choose the old HD and delete the USB
Yes. I actually boot up from a usb on my old MacBook and iMac . In the computer and go to disk utility you can format and install an operating system on the USB just like any other hard drive
If you don’t want to leave the USB permanently plugged into your computer and switch around from one Mack to another you can still build up off of it by holding the option key down as soon as you hear the boot chime When you power on . A screen Will pop up that will allow you to choose between the internal hard drive and the USB drive or any other drive that you have hooked up, whether it’s A USB drive that you plug-in, Thunderbolt drive or an old-school fire wire drive or even a dvd I think.
When my clone has almost finished, it hangs on Verifying, then I receive Failed, Input/Output Error OSStatus 05. Can you help?
Well , try this , remove the system admin ( Mac login password ) then try the clone process to see if it completes successfully.
@@AVMEVideos Thank you so much! I will try and let you know if I'm successful.
I have the same problem as below. Bought a 500GB SSD but the internal drive is 1TB. Only around 200GB used on the internal drive but it comes up with an error about not enough space. What to do??????
Sounds like you need to use a backup drive that is equal to or greater than the original
The restore process failed for me. ... not sure why?