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How to clone your old hard drive to your SSD (Mac)

There are a number of third party programs that can be used to clone your Mac Har

drive to a Crucial SSD. Did you know you can clone using Disk Utility that comes fr

with all Mac systems? Below are the steps to take to perform the clone using Disk Utili

(Note, this process cannot be used to clone a Windows partition if you are running boo

camp).

Before starting this process, your new SSD needs to be initialized, partitioned, and fo

matted. See this guide for directions on how to initialize an SSD.

Note that if you have encrypted your drive with FileVault you will not be able to carrout step 5 of this guide. To be able to resize the partition you will need to turn off Fil

Vault and let the drive fully decrypt. After the clone has completed and your new SS

is installed and booting, you can turn FileVault back on again.

1. Connect your new Crucial SSD to the system

a. This can be done using the SATA to USB cable included with the Laptop instakit, an external enclosure, or internally if you have an extra bay

2. From within your operating system, open Disk Utility

3. Select your original HDD from the device list in Disk Utility

4. Select the partition tab

5. Resize your Mac Partition to the same size or less than your new SSD (Example:

your original drive is 512GB, and your SSD is 256GB, you will need to resize your orig

nal partition to 256GB)

a. Drag the bottom of the white box on the partition tab up until it is the desir

size, and click apply

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b. If your new SSD is the same size or larger than your original drive, you do n

need to resize

6. Shut down your Mac, and then boot the recovery partition (Lion or later) or OS i

stallation CD (Snow Leopard and older)

a. On boot hold the option key to access the boot manager

b. Select Recovery-10.x or installation CD

7. Choose your language

8. Select Disk Utility

9. Select the startup disk from the device list in Disk Utility

10. Select the Restore tab

11. Click and drag the startup disk volume (the line item under the entry for the phy

cal source disk) to the Source field if it doesnt auto populate

12. Click and drag the destination disk volume (the line under the entry for the phycal SSD) to the Destination field

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13. Select Erase Destination check box if the option is provided (in 10.8.2 this is pe

formed automatically)

14. Click the Restore button

After the clone process is finished, next you will want to ensure that your clone was su

cessful. Here are the steps to take:

1. Reboot your Mac

2. Once your screen goes black, hold down the option key

3. In the boot manager, select the cloned disk

4. If the clone was successful, your system will boot normally

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a. Replace your original drive with the SSD internally, and enjoy the speed

5. If the clone was not successful, simply reboot your computer as normal to boot

your original drive.

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