HDD to SSD Clone Macbook Pro (2010-2019) OSX Utility Tool

Brief tutorial using a USB to Sata adapter/Enclosure to clond a HDD to SSD.

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USB HDD to Sata

[nappingpup]

Very, very nice. No need for any 3rd party apps. Just needed to boot into IOS Recovery. In my case, the internal and external HDD and SSD all showed the same silver metal icon. However, if you clicked on those icons you could read the sizes of the drives. I was retiring an original 2011 time frame HDD with a current SSD. Too, I was required to upgrade my MacBook Pro from El Capitan to Catalina so that my IOS.16.1 would continue to be recognized by my ancient MacBook. Another note, if you pay attention in the video, it was said that the cloning could take anywhere from minutes to hours. My half full 320GB HDD took about 1 hour and 50 minutes (110 minutes total) to complete the cloning. Seemed like a long time, but it is installed, boots, and all is working well. As a previous poster said, you did need to unmount both drives at the beginning. On the back end, I only mounted the new SSD. When I went to the Startup Disk routine, it only showed 1 drive to select for the system boot. Hope this might help someone going forward. Thanks to Never Stop Tech.

[valramos]

When you said the data source needed to be unmounted as well, the video showed that it's still mounted then you proceeded with restoring to the external hard drive. Which one is correct?

[songsan]

Very good detailed video. Was in a pinch to find a quick reference video while upgrading my Mac Mini 2014 last night and found your video to be very helpful. Been playing with the Macs for hours the last few weeks and learned something new from your video on using the startup disk feature. Very useful.

[sukhjitsingh]

Thank you, that was very informative.
Unmounting both drives is key, I was missing that.
👍

[mando]

Worked perfect on my 2015 MacBook Pro I used a ssd stick idk if that’s the correct name for it but I followed the same steps

[angelangelov]

It didnt work. Got the following error message" "Could not recognize "/dev/(null)" as an image file, Could not validate source - Invalid argument, the operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error 22.) Operation failed...

[DiasBrianFreitas]

I was following another tutorial because want upgrade from HD to an SSD. But after the restoration process and try to initialize the system using the SSD, get the white screen with ? folder.
So, the difference (and what I think gona be the game changer) is the final step when you set the drive wanted to use as the System default starter.
Trying this right now, hope works for me this time.
Thank you!!!

[MrLebebe]

Fan-tas-tic, very well explained and very clear, congratulations!

[MsAjieko]

baru tau ane, ga perlu pake program pihak ketiga, mantap

[davidjosephjohn]

Liked and subbed. Q: why do I have to name the new SSD the same as the old HD? Thx. Great vid. Keep it up.

[punishrs]

I recently made an installer usb drive its 64gb. It has 4 partition on it with 4 different macOS. It took me a while to make it, I’m new to the macOS environment. I wanted to make a backup of my usb to store away Incase of corruption that may happen down the road. How would I copy the whole usb to another usb of the same size? Thank you.

[himshe]

Hi i don’t have restore in Disk Utility my macbook pro mid 2009 !

[verlandlaurent]

I couldn’t restore “ Restore process has failed “ why if you can help

[athishayjain.m.k]

very nice.... so when we have this clone in future if we have any problem with our os we can use this as backups and restore the external to internal again and we can get back all installed app working fine know....??? am i correct

[Piyano]

"The restore operation failed. Click Finish to continue."

[bbfreak]

How I come I don't have the restore option? Am I'm missing something? Thank you!

[mielushelheureux]

Thank you for this simple and clear tutorial. Please, I have a mac mini that I partitioned. Now I just want to clone just an image of the partition that I am using. How to do that? And how to restore that partition on the internal hard drive? Do you have any advice for such a case?
To be detailed about my case, I have 2 partitions on my internal hard drive. One with a latest os x operating system and another with a downgrade version. The partition that I prefer is the second one, that is the one with the downgraded version. So I would like to clone the prefered one and then erase the whole internal hard drive to restore the clone and gain more space, since I am not using the partition with the latest os x operating system. Sorry for being so long...

[davidjosephjohn]

Anyone answering questions here? Again, why do I need to name the new SSD exactly the same as the old HDD? Thx

[julious]

great video!! Question, can I use this method to only update/back up new files after I've done a clone of the 2 drives?

[rapidogitv]

Sir paano kaya yung sa command sa windows keyboard para sa disk utility ?