Now connect your USB external drive to your macbook's USB port. If you are going to duplicate or clone Mac hard drive to SSD, a copy of the drive is created directly on the target location.
Launch Disk Utility - verify your disk permissions - repair if errors are found - format/erase your new drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled with a single GUID partition.Ĭlose Disk Utility and launch Carbon Copy Cloner.Ĭlone your old drive (source drive) - to your new drive (destination drive) - you will get a pop up saying that a recovery partition wasn't created. This simply means that you have an instant copy including the hard disk structure. create one with Carbon Copy (This does NOT apply if Snow Leopard is installed in your hard drive) A cloned disk or drive includes all the partitions from the source drive or disk. once the clone is done, turn your macbook off. Test your newly cloned drive by turning your macbook back on while pressing the option key - select your external to boot and check if everything was copied when you did the clone. Install new drive in your macbook and install old drive in your USB enclosure - use it for back up purposes. Turn your macbook back on - if boot time takes longer than 45 secs (SSD ONLY) - go to system preferences - startup disk - select your new drive as the startup drive - restart your macbook. Tools needed: #00 Phillips Screwdriver and T6 Torx ScrewdriverĪttention: remember where all your screws goes. The bottom of your macbook have 10 screws - 7 short ones and 3 long ones.
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