SSD Failure! Cloning your Mac and Making it bootable 'the easy way'

My main drive in my 27 inch 2011 iMac decided to die.. slowly. SSD failures can be detected not usually by a sudden and dramatic death - but a degradation of performance that impacts write speed (and sometimes read speed). Essentially, you gotta act fast and clone your drive while the data is still readable!

In this video I show how to use superduper to clone your drive and jump into your new bootable disk!

[vktr]

Just want to clarify for anyone wanting to follow the steps shown… you should save the disk image to a hard drive that is separate from the one you will make bootable. Cloning the disk image to the drive it is on will leave you with no disk image and no clone.

[CorbinElliott]

Gotta love that SuperDuper. Been in my stash of needed utility's for over 8 years now.

[aaronleung]

How do you restore a Mac through carbon copy cloner to the new Mac where you can't take out the SSD or hard drive.

[Pancajayna]

Super Duper no longer free. They keep telling you that your settings aren't correct and to choose "smart update" and when you choose that, they say that is from the paid version....

[johndittmer]

I've used Superduper for 13 years. Ever since I upgraded my mac to Catalina, I can no longer boot the computer from the clone it creates : ( : \

[taylormedia]

The "2011 iMac", whether 21 or 27" need a heat sensor. The 2012 doesn't but 2011 does. Apple has documentation regarding this. Also check with OWC

[agiverreviga]

Why exactly are you fascinated about older tech? Just curious, otherwise a fan of your channel.

[moonsteroid]

Why aren't u looking into the camera? Cool video

[blindlygoing]

I had an issue when I cloned it that means the OS creates a duplicate virtual drive everytime I reboot.

I can send that drive to the bin, but it will create it again everytime I reboot.

I used Super Duper to clone and I'm using 2 x 1TB Crucial MX500 SSDs in a Mid 2012 Macbook pro.

[DR-xksp]

Have you enabled trim support on the drive? This is turned off by default for non Apple ssd. This can cause slow write speeds if not enabled

[_falafey]

whoa a xeon? can't wait to see if that works!!!!

[superimportant]

If you tear down and rebuild and get a colors all strange on the screen This might be due to PRAM and re installing the OS. I thought I messed up the computer when removing the graphics card but it was only something missing with the cloned drive. If anyone has the same issue it might be solved with PRAM reset and insall new OS.

[baskaranmunusamy]

Don't use superduper! it erased both my drives :(

[lcarson]

Thanks for the super helpful videos Curtis!!


I'm waiting for my 610M to arrive shortly, then will be using your videos to help me get the new GPU set up... thanks again!

[jamesjeffrey]

Nice for helping *DAWGGOAT* the credit card info working on so many shit since I got it from you, It damn hitting so hard. I want lasting relationship this’s good business💵