How To Clone a MacBook Hard Drive

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I show you how to clone your current Mac hard drive to a new hard drive or solid state drive in this step by step tutorial.

I'm using a Plextor M6S as my replacement

[daisyhoward]

What a breath of fresh air to hear clear diction and someone that gets straight to the point rather than waffling about their boring upgrades and purchases or breathing heavily into a badly placed microphone like some kind of eejit.

[leonpmuyt]

Awesome! Still relevent today. Thanks so much!

[nelsonadorno]

The best, simplest and well spoken walk through out here! Thank you for this and GREAT job

[tomridge]

worked perfect, with a couple of pauses I did the set up of it in near real time with this video!

[jaycharles]

Question; what if i want to to the opposite of this. my 2008 macbook pro is dead. externally the computer was damaged, but the hard drive is find. could i use that same tool to retrieve what is on the old hard drive when i get my new macbook?

[Praster]

So I have a work computer and I'm leaving the job so I need to get all my files off my work computer to an external hard drive.. will this do that with every single file, picture and document intact? And I want to leave the hard drive on the computer as is and not erase it because there's things on there the office needs too.. thanks

[jeremiahpoulsen]

I bought the Crucial MX300 2.5 inch SSD. Watching your videos has been a super duper big help. Only problem is I can't find an enclosure online that will fit. can you point me in the right direction?

[jaycharles]

does it matter how old the hard drive is? I want to turn the hard on the mac I damaged into an external drive.

[androidouija]

I like your video, you said watch the next link for the install of the clone but there is no link. Im cloning now when i install it I shouldnt have any problems should boot right up ?

[clean]

it keeps asking me if i want to use time machine to copy onto the ssd. what should i click?

[jehanmartinez]

Will my final cut pro library/projects/ and videos in the timeline that aren't exported yet also copy and transfer to the ssd?

[manueleugeniosalcedogutier]

Hi !
I can't find the link of how to swop drives.
HELP Please

[richierandomukg]

dose it copy your version of OS then you clone your new HD

[egossick]

Great video....the simplest one yet. Can you post the link to the installation video? Thanks!

[nadzmiezulkifli]

I have got Bootcamp in my internal HD. Will that be cloned as well? 

[JackDoonerMusic]

Hi Aaron, great video. Do you know if the Mac's Recovery Partition (which is hidden) is also copied over to the new drive? The Recovery Partition is very useful for re-installing Mac OSX and it would be a shame if it was not included. Thanks!

[AnwaarHines]

Good video.. Where is the link to the part 2?

[nadzmiezulkifli]

What is the SATA to USB carrier that ure using? 

[KEKnightCS]

first of all AWESOME video. best hard drive cloning video by far!!!!
i noticed you said it warns you about erasing your old drive. but does it erase it?
im trying to make two hard drives with the same info on both for a backup hd

[johnbernard]

There are more than one ways to clone a hard drive that contains a functioning operating system, so that you don't have to reinstall the operating system, right?