My son wants his Mac Book Pro HDD upgrading to an SSD (around 2013 vintage, i7 CPU, 8Gb RAM, 750Gb HDD). I already did the HDD > SSD swap recently on a very similar Win 10 machine using Crucial's flavour of Acronis software that simply worked a treat. But it doesn't (I do not think) work on a Mac. Researching about how to clone a Mac Book Pro drive pointed me towards an application called Carbon Copy. I "think" reading about it, it was Freeware, but when I look at it there are now charges for it. I don't really want a paid for application to a one time only job. So, does anyone have any advice for me out there in CUK/Apple land at all please on how to do this HDD cloning job? Thanks.
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Clone a Mac Book Pro HDD to a SSD?
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Clone a Mac Book Pro HDD to a SSD?
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I just used Time Machine."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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Originally posted by cojak View PostI just used Time Machine.
Also free and comes as part of MacOS."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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Originally posted by cojak View PostI just used Time Machine.Originally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyI can't see any way to do it can you please advise?
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Thanks all. You make a bootable clone with Time Machine? Didn't know that. Thanks again.Public Service Posting by the BBC - Bloggs Bulls**t Corp.
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Thanks all, I used a Crucial SSD and downloaded Super Duper to do the cloning. The hardest part of the HDD to SSD upgrade was getting a small enough (size 00) screw driver to remove the screws and get the back off the MBP. Given that the MBP in question was pretty much a top line i7 jobby, one of the last before SSD's came in, the SSD upgrade has transformed this MBP and will extend the life of it by several years, I think. A simple "must do" upgrade this one, I think.Public Service Posting by the BBC - Bloggs Bulls**t Corp.
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I'm a bit slow to the party, but Time Machine does it perfectly:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10081
My company's old MBP from 2011 had a 512GB SSD in it, and if we'd kept it, I would have upgraded to something a bit bigger.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Adding to this - the weirdness happening to my MBP may well be due to a problem with the SSD. They did say that SSDs don't last forever and this one has lasted 6 years.
But I got the MBP in April 2012 and I'm worried about spending > £200 on a replacement SSD only for Apple to stop supporting MBP 2011's.
Is it worth the gamble, or do I just buy a new PC?"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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