How To Clone iMac HDD to SSD
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Well this is the first time EVER where
I followed instructions on a TH-cam
video to discover that it actually WORKS.
Thank you sir.
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.
Installed new Samsung SSD 1TB hard drive. I can’t put into words how satisfied and impressed I am! Feel like I’ve gone to light speed! Thanks for making life on my 2011 iMac better!
You are awesome. Thanks for sharing. Glad it made your Mac run faster 🖥️ !
@@beefmaster_james one question for you James, after installing new hard drive, when I try to access Mavis Beacon typing, I get an error message saying “cannot access
“Cannot use iTunes library because it is missing”. Any suggestion on how I can remedy this? Thanks.
I have watched several videos from TH-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.
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 🙏🙏
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.
Awesome video. Simple step by step instructions with excellent production value. So refreshing an very informative! Thank you.
Man just a great all around video. Instructions were clear and very helpful you didn’t leave out any details. Keep doing your thing man
One of the best descriptive step by step explanations out there. Great job.
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.
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!
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
This is really easy to follow. So many will toss a word salad trying to sound more intelligent than they are, and being a retired auto mechanic who was also an instructor, I learned that if you talk over your student's heads, you taught them nothing other than how you stroke your massive ego.
Thank for for this refreshing and useful information.
Thanks for the post. I wish you had taught some of my classes back in the day. We need more teachers like you.
Great tutorial here on how to configure your new SSD drive for your old MAC. I am in the process of changing out my old HDD in my 2009 iMAC and bought a kit from OWC with a 500GB drive. There are a lot of posts on how to physically change the drives out, but not much on how to clone your old drive before you change it out. This one was very complete and comprehensive and I am now booting and running on the new SSD (externally connected temporarily. The only thing not covered here is if you are replacing your old drive with a new one with less storage. My original HDD is 1TB, the new SSD is 500GB, so I did have to partition the old drive before cloning.
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.
Thanks for the video. I used a Crucial 2TB drive & followed your instructions. I had almost 400GB of data on my old drive. It took most of the night to transfer the data across a USB line, but it worked flawlessly. My old iMac is faster now than when it was new!
This video was a HUGE help. I followed it step-by-step and the drive worked perfectly. Thank you so much for your time putting it together. Thanks again for the great video.
Thanks for taking time to comment. Really appreciate it.
thank you for this simple yet clear explanation.
Brilliant tutorial on how to clone an Imac to a SSD drive, very nicely spoken with clear and concise instructions, thank you 😀
I just upgraded my iMac by closely following your instructions. Everything is working like a dream, thank you very much. Your videos are the best!
Thanks Jay. Really appreciate the comment.
Great tutorial! Short and precise. Thanks a lot!
Extremely helpful and clear. Thank you!
Well presented clear walk through- thank you !
Appreciate this video. Perfect information & steps. Very informative & to the point. You rock!
As always another great video, this covers all the basics of a semester in Tech school after you cut away all the fluff.
Thanks for the instructions. worked well on my thinkpad x260 cloning monterey to another ssd.
Excellent tutorial. Easy to understand for me since this is my first Mac.
Excellent video, nice pace and clearest video yet.
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.
explained well in details, thank you so much.
Great vid and tutorial... very concise and well explained. Thank you Sir ...
Works perfectly on my late 2015 iMac running Big Sur. Thanks!
Great and easy to follow tutorial. Thank you.
You are awesome. Thank you for sharing such a valuable and useful information. You are precise, clear and steady. Thank you very much!
Beautifully explained. Thank you.
Thanks for being super clear. Worked perfectly!
What operating system do you have ? High Sierra?
Excellent video. Very useful. I used on my late 2010 Mack book pro and worked perfectly
OKAY SO THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO ON THIS SUBJECT....LEGEND YOU GET ALL CAPS
Thanks bro. The all caps is a great honor.
Excellent job with the instructions. Thx bossman!!!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing this recovery method using Disk Utility! The Apple folks were ONLY offering the OS retore from the Apple Store and because the used iMac I had bought was NOT in my profile, the restore was not working! Serioulsy annyoing restriction they have set up on retores working unless you have that specific model and OS in your profile! And Apple Support would not add that OS to my profile when I asked.
So, finding this by sheer accident today was a life saver! I am posting this message as the new SSD is being restored!! Thanks again for sharing this.
Perfect video. Very helpful. Thanks 👍
Great video. It was easy peasy with these instructions. Thank you for a straight forward guide, I completed the cloning without any issues.
Thanks for great video. Worked great. Finally found a solution how easily create bootable USB OSX drive.
Upgraded 2011 MBP SSD and needed to instal older version of OSX (high sierra). Instaling over internet did not work, because the OSX for 2011 MBP was too new.
Fantastic vid thanks
Do you have info on the temp sensor?
Thanks so much
Thank you for sharing this very useful information. It was very helpful for me...
Excelente!
Muito obrigado!
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 🙏🏻
Grazie mille, conciso e preciso !!
Awesome
It worked for the MacBook Pro 2012 Mid year version too..
Solid state device rocks at rocket speed than HdD👍🏼
Thank you so much. It worked like a charm!
I'm using the exact same Mac and I am about to do this operation. The only thing I'm debating on is whether I want to wait around for it to move around 50 gigs of data through USB2, which is slow, but I may just go with it considering how easy you showed this to be. Well done!
Excellent BeefMaster, well spoken and good description - Thanks a lot 🆗
AWESOME video, thank you!
Worked like a charm. Thanks dude.
Thank you. It took a while but it works. My old 1tb hdd is beginning to show errors, so hopefully just in time. Also I am using a windows Bluetooth keyboard, so not so easy to access the menus.
so helpful video brother..
Thank you so much, it works for me.
I love it. I did exactly as in the video. Awesome. thanks
Great video! Very helpful!
This is simply the best and straight-forward steps provided to non-nerd iMac users to upgrade the speed of old iMac. Bravo !
One question I have is that, if I use the 1st method, could I stick to copying just the older Mac Operating system already in use in the internal hard drive ? Or I will automatically prompt to push installation of the latest OS ?
Thank you once again for the clear instructions.
Thanks a lot!! Trying to switch from HDD to SSD on my mid 2012 MacBook Pro
Thaks for an excellent video tutorial. I followed the instructions and saved myself a couple of hundred pounds in chamging the drive myself.
Keep up the good work!!
Super helpful, thank you!
Good Video Thx really worked on point.
wow, thanks, this time no one talking for ages about nothing. You got it right, excellent documentary on how to do without the fluff.
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Thank you so much for this!!!
Thanks! Really helpfull! For those trying for the first time, it will take about 5h (500gb) to complete.
Nice!!, I have mac ios and windows running from the same drive do you know if it clones the drive with both OSs as it is?
Unbelievable! I have, or had, a super slow beachball spinning iMac(2017).
Bought a scan disk ssd, followed your instructions, and wham! Fast Mac.
Thanks a lot.
I'll subscribe.
Thank you, Tim. Greatly appreciate the comment and subscription.
Very easy to follow..nice job
You are the best man. Great video
*Thanks for the great informative video 👍 ✨ ✨ ✨*
Thanks very much for the video, I was nearly there as how to do it but wanted to be sure, other tutorials just go to fast, Thanks again
Very helpful its working thanks
Very helpful thanks!
Thank's guy, your video was very important for my work.
Yessir. I'm happy it helped you out.
Appreciate info worked like a charm
Superior tutorial ! thank you !
Hi it worked perfectly by the way how do you rename the SSD TO YOUR preference at moment the only way I can tell which one to boot from is the color
Congratulations! Very clear information and easy ... bye
Thank you so much! Great!
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! 👍😁
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!
Great video. Thank you.
I wanted to ask if the disk utility or any other function in apple does give you the possibility to shrink the main drive that’s going to replace the older one (but not only in this occasion) into one ore more partitions and after that choose what you’re going to put into one partition and not the other, or install the macos into one choosen partition.
Thanks
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 th-cam.com/video/Rp77d0Sl6Fo/w-d-xo.html for the free download and instructions. Saved you $50. Pass it on.
@@juicer52 nice
Phenomenal video. Thanks.
Thanks, you made it easy 👏
Thanks so much this video!!
Thank You! I followed your video and it worked flawlessly. I was just about to shell out $1500 for a new Mac.I am $1400 to the good right now!!!
Thanks for posting. Love to see comments like this.
Great Vid. I have a particular situation. I have both a mac OS and Windows system on the same NVMe on my macbook air which I desperately need to change out. So my question is, if I clone the mac os will the windows partition and its content also get copied? Will it boot normally? Thanks!
As someone who runs a 2010 MacBook Pro, thank you! This worked perfectly. Saved me $$$ on a new product. So cool
Thanks for sharing. It makes a huge difference to upgrade. Glad it help you.
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?
Thank You
Thanks so much u have helloes me to know much more
Thanks. For copying an old HD to a new but bigger HD, do I use same steps?
Great Video Thank you!!!
Thank you.
thank you, this worked , however my MBP late 2011 took a whooping 10hours to transfer 470GB to a 1TB SSD , i think i would have done a manual transfer with a fresh install if i knew this, or leave it over night , hope this info is useful for others
you saved my Imac bro, bless you🌺🙏🙏🙏