Clone bootable Apple Mac Hard Drive from Disk Utility Mac OS Sierra 2017
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2017
- In this video learn how to clone your internal apple mac hard drive to an external thunderbolt , usb or ssd hard drive and boot from it. Also make it time machine backup drive using the disk utility and time machine . This is a free solution out of the box from mac os sierra 2017 .
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I did it!! following this tutorial ,,, i cloned my Hard drive to a SSD drive,,, with the knowledge i obtained through tutorials on you tube,,, i then,,, opened my MacMini and replaced the Hard drive with the new SSDs,,, wow... what a difference... my computer starts in 19 seconds now... my speeds before W 39 R 94,, NOW W 489 R523... thank you for sharing your knowledge , it gave me the courage to do this on my own...
Cheers , glad to know you have a faster computer now.
Yours is one of the best step-by-step tutorials I have watched. Thank you.
I know that this video is now three years old or so, but just today, thanks to this video (and some other research, but mainly this video) I upgraded my parents' 2014 Mac Mini with its ancient mechanical hard drive to an external SSD. The last year and a half or so has seen their computer become nearly unusable. I had no desire for them to buy a new system as my dad is now 72 and my mom 70, and she uses it almost daily for a wide variety of things, but the speed of the drive was beyond insanely slow by this point. Just loading any program took minutes. So, with my MacBook and a new Samsung SSD in hand that I picked up on the way, I went there, turned this video on, and followed the instructions. The cloning process took hours as expected, but... it worked! I am not exaggerating when I say that their system, again a 2014 Mac Mini, feels as if it's a brand new computer. They are overjoyed, and I upgraded them after it was done to Catalina with zero issues at a speed never before seen when updating their OS. Again, I know other stuff is out there about this, but it was this video that walked me through it and that I used, and it worked flawlessly even today. Again, thank you! You have given a new lease on life to a retired couple with an aging system that now feels brand new.
That was the greatest, simplest tutorial ever. Clear concise, and easy.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you. I am in the process of swapping my internal HD for an SSD. I'm glad I found your video and don't have to get any software.
Very well explained by the way.
Thanks.
This is fantastic! No messing around with third party apps and pretty darn simple too! Thanks a bunch~
This was useful, but in my case the password caused the internal drive partition to be 'locked'. So, you first have to select it (if it looks greyed out), then click Edit >> Unlock. Enter the password for that drive, then it will become 'enabled'. Now you can continue by selecting your new drive, and performing the restore. Additionally, I was doing the clone through USB, not thunderbolt or firewire.
Just wanted to thank you for this! The Apple/NVIDIA feud recently "bricked" a lot of people's Mac Pros 5,1s this Summer. And the only possible fix required me to upgrade from 10.12 Sierra to 10.13 High Sierra. To be safe, I wanted to clone my boot drive to go through the big OS upgrade and also GPU driver upgrade on the new drive in case anything went wrong.
Your method in this video worked perfectly for me and was an extra layer of safeguard in my troubleshooting process.
NOTE: It did not work with my third-party mechanical keyboard (my Mac apparently never recognized my CMD+R from that keyboard). I had to borrow an old official Mac USB keyboard from a friend to accomplish this method.
Glad to hear it worked for you , thanks for watching & leaving detailed comment , it helps the youtube community
Super job you put the process in a very organized manner. Thanks
I followed step by step your instructions and the result is fantastic. Thank you.
Best and clearest video I’ve found explaining this!
glad it helped.
It was exactly as you instructed. It is a new Mac Mini that I haven't used since it was given to me 2 years ago.. When I set it up it was obvious it could function even receiving photos for editing. Constant beachball. It only sets up an external drive, and the only thing that changes is the source you name for booting. 2 thumbs up!
Excellent and very practical explanation (including little details about when to start pressing Control R and when to let it go) of just what I wanted to know and, additionally, not using specialised app. Thank you.
Glad to hear it helped you , thanks for watching and nice comment .
Love the the monitor and the background 🙌
Thank you. Very clear and extremely helpful.
Brilliant, accurate, easy to follow! Thank you very much, MMG
Fantastic mate. Spent yesterday afternoon following this tutorial and now have a SSD drive in my old MBP 2010. Thank you very much for making this vid.
Cheers !
Simple, clear and absolutely useful!
Thank you so much, my mid 2012 MBP has been sooo slow. So I purchased a 1tb ssd and this worked flawlessly. Now I can continue using my favorite computer for my literary work.
Thanks for watching.
HELLO EXCELLENT VIDEO, I JUST FINISHED CLONING A 2TB 2.5 SEAGATE "FIRE CUDA THANKS TO YOUR PERFECT GUIDANCE.
THANK YOU.
Worked and was super easy after watching your video .. Thanks ..
Cloned my mac min HDD to SSD and replaced..
Cheers !
I haven't doe it yet but you done an excellent job I been looking for an easy way to install my SSD I get back and see how it goes!
Brilliant, so very clear, thank you for posting.
Fantastic video, good calm voice.
Just upgraded from hdd to ssd and it works!
Thank you.
Thanks for watching !
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You helped. I owe you. Things looked a touch different on my 10.6.8 Imac, but it all worked out. REmember, folks, if you bring your clone drive around to someone elses computer, (or that older 4 gig model you still have) if it doesn't have enough ram, it will probably open up and then freeze, if you try to restart from the clone.
Thanks for this video. I followed your instructions and it worked out very well!!!
Just finished this process for my 20017 as well as my late 2013 iMacs respectively. It worked on both although on my late 2013 the Disk Utility was somehow different.
Now I have to swap the physical drives and see what happens.
Again, thanks for your video.
Hi thank you very much for the great video. I was just wondering when you are restoring from internal to external, the macOS also gets copied right?
wow that looks like a really nice setup!
Very well presented and clear. Thank you.
I cannot tell you how happy I am to have found your video. I've tried everything from superduper, time machine, and carbon copy cloner, and nothing worked for making a bootable clone for my 2011 Imac. Everything would freeze and lockup when using that disc as a bootable ssd volume. Thank you thank you.
Cheers ! Thanks for watching .
So helpful! Thank you, thank you!!
Worked well for me - thank you for uploading this
Glad to know it worked for you , thanks for watching .
I wished I would have found your video before! I never trusted to do this kind of things, but you were very clear. Thanks!!
Cheers !
Would this method work on older versions of Mac like yosimete ?Thank you for the video by the way
Thanks brother, worked like a charm!
Great video, very clear instructions. Once done, can you just swap the drives?
have cloned two drives now thanks so much :)
Glad to know it worked for you too , thanks for watching !
Great job! Just what I needed to prepare for transitioning to a new, clean iMac from a 7+-year-old one. Unrelated question: what is the Yamaha device between your iMac and speaker? I have an old M-AUDIO FireWire 410 interface that is no longer supported, so I'm looking for a replacement option.
I sent an email of this to my phone then followed the instructions as I breezed through.
Before, with my MacMini I couldn't move from screen to screen without the "beachball swirl", but now it is faster than my Mac Book Pro. SSD forever. Thanks AVME
I am running Catalina. And it made the computer slow.
This works the mans a genius I just created a bootable external drive using an HDD that I had. Now I am waiting for my Fledging 512GB SSD to arrive. Just watch the video a couple of times no need for special software.
This is amzaing. I will test that immediately.
Thank you, Gregor / Austria
hi it's helpful video. can you advice how to clone MacBook pro 2011 hard drive running high sierra to ssd for upgrade
Wow! I thought my 27inch screen was big but that's a cinema he's got in front of him!
Great video Thank you
Very Awesome and descriptive video. Bravo.
Thank you! Very informative and helpful!
Cheers !
Thank you!
Great tutorial - very well explained!
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome! No fluff.
Cheers , thanks for watching .
Sweet!! I used this when I replaced my 160GB drive with a new 1TB drive on my 2009, 13 inch. It works with El Capitan as well and I didn't need the cloner software. Great Job and Thank you!
Cheers !
THANK YOU!!!!
Useful video, thank you!
Cheers !
Awesome Tutorial!!! Well done!!!
BTW What make and model is that nice display on the left side of this video?
Thank you!
Perfect ! Thanks !
Thanks man!
Hi, I have tried to follow your video then come up with another question, is it possible to clone second partition in the same harddrive, and use second partition as the main bootable drive
Great video!
No worries Bro... commendable effort though.. truly appreciated..
THANKS GOOD VIDEO
I have a 27" Model 17,1 with 2.12 TB Fusion Drive (128GB SSD paired with a 2TB 3.5" Drive). It shows 368GB used and 1.56TB free space so my 1.0TB SSD is quite large enough. QUESTIONS are 1. will both portions of the fusion drive be successfully transferred to the externally mounted Thunderbolt2 dock? and Question 2. Will the Recovery Partition be transferred, as well? Thank You so much for your video tutorials.
hi Av thanks for the good tutorial you solved my problem...
Cheers !
Thanks for the video it solved me trying to install a bootable 2.5” crucial SSD MX500 1000gb drive into my 13” MacBook pro mid-2012. Much Aloha
Cheers !
you can also hold T on start up (if your computer is not booting into recovery) and it will read your hard drive.
Look at that crazy screen on the left. I hope you've figured out some cool art to put on that blank wall by now.
Thank you, so if I cloned my internal hard drive to an external SSD drive and install it later in my macbook pro, after that install a new os like Big Sur using a usb, that wouldn't erase the entire SSD drive?
By the way... WHAT is that HUGE and WIDE beautiful display you are using? Looks Great!!!
Hi
I have a iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) i'm having issues with the B/B/DEATH appearing every now & then, and as it's a 2011 model but I suspect the 1tb HD is possibly on it's last legs, the 1 tb Hd only has 250gb in use so far. Anyway I have just purchased an Evo 860 500gb SSD and will hopefully clone my iMac’s HD which is running OS Sierra and probably use it as an external bootable HD rather than strip it down to install inside following your easy to follow steps (fingers X in my case).
My question is before Cloning the disk is it better to update to latest macOS Mojave or clone as is.
Hope this make sense, Great video by the way.
Any other advice is grateful.
Nice video. Question: If I'm not using this clone as a source to do time machine backups is there a need to name the new harddrive the same name as the original internal HD? I just want to save a clone on an external HD just in case, but want to name it something recognizable to differentiate from the original.
Nice, sir. Thank you
Thanks for watching.
That was so helpful. Thank you.
Cheers !
AVME Videos do you have to do an decrypting on the original hard drive?
How to retain boot camp partition? I am using snow leopard, want to upgrade to el capitan , also to new ssd. I have bootcamp partition running window 7.
Thank you!!! Clear and precise instructions. On the off chance you are are still monitoring comments, would this also work for El Capitan OS ? Again thanks for posting this.
I LOVE YOU, THANK A LOT
Cheers !
Excellent Video Man! I have a early 2015 Macbook Pro Retina. Im trying to clone my original 128gb internal ssd drive to a external 240gb ssd. After I erase the external ssd in disk utility and then try restore from internal ssd, I keep getting a fail message, and saying something about not validating image. Is there something I am missing here? thank you
Can I plug the external clone of my iMac drive into my Macbook Air, and boot the laptop with it?
With a wireless keyboard can I do the recovery mode the Mac detect the keyboard on the boot?
It worked perfect but you didn't explain how to restore a computer after one has replaced a failed hard drive?
I have a 8tb hdd. Can I make one partition like 500gb and follow this procedure to create a bootable hdd or create a clone for later copy clone to main hdd in case of internal hdd failure?
I am having a great deal of trouble creating a clone for imac 2019 macOS 10.14 Mojave, any ideas?
i couldnt use my usb flash drive for startup disk because if wont show up , wouldnt it need to be mac os ex. journaled, not APFS?
This is actually very good folks. Pay attention.
holy shit that monitor! oh, & great tutorial btw(:
Hi thanks for this video. I did this for SSD and it is working externally when connected to USB but then when I installed it, it is not working. Folder with question mark is showing when I start my mac. Do you have an idea how to fix this?
Does the clone include the software and any files as well or the cloning would just clone the OS?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but I don't believe newer versions of MacOS allow the last step (time machine). Due to how Time Machine expects a disk to be formatted.
Following all steps here, I'm able to successfully create the bootable external. I'm able to use it as a startup disk, etc. However, Time Machine will not detect that bootable external as an option to use it for backups.
Wanted to clarify this and possibly get your confirmation, in order to spare others the headache.
Thanks!
thank you,, you make it look easy.... you are great.. i have a late 2012 mac mini, can i replace the hard drive with 2T SSD?, or can i replace with 1T + 1T ( two SSD drives internal).. i see some people are "adding" a internal SSD along with the existing Hard drive, i dont understand that way of doing it, but, i am not as computer literate as most presenters on "how To" you tube.. thank you for sharing your knowledge.. this video is great..
yes you can add ITB or 2TB SSD internally , if you have the right tools and patience then it's a easy job ., let me know if you are up for the challenge then I would direct you in the right direction.
I follow the steps exactly but when I try to restore the internal drive it says not enough space to restore, operation failed. I have a 1TB internal drive but have only used about 220 GB and the new external SSD is 500 GB. Any advice?
ey thank you !!. This was very helpful, I was able to do it in a mb white UB 2010 running osx 10.7.5 , and I´ve done it several times, and it always works. Even the recovery hd partition is cloned following your procedure. Nowadays I have a bootcamp partition with Win7 installed (I am able to play cs1.6, half life 2, ford racing III, tekken III etc). Both operating systems are running perfectly (actually win7 runs better than osx) My question is : Will the bootcamp partition also be cloned if I do it again in the future because I`m thinking about getting a bigger SSD. @AVME Videos
what if guid is not available. I only have two drop down menus
I'm doing this and it seems like disk utility is stuck near the end "replicating" how long should I wait before I like reboot or something?
Hi great video. Will this work with El Capitan. Cheers
Yes it would.
Very informative, useful and clearly explained video on how to clone a Mac HD without having to buy backup software such as CCC or super duper. This video will no doubt benefit many Mac users. The part that is novel is the backup combined the clone of the original Mac HD and the time machine. But I am confused about the time machine part. If u have time to answer the following questions, I would greatly appreciated.
1) does the backup Lacie HD has two partitions, one is for the clone of the original Mac HD and one is for time machine backup and the two partitions have no relationship to each other? OR u had succeeded in creating a bootable time machine in a single partition?
2) If the two partitions are independent, then the storage requirement for the external HD will be the the sum of the requirements for cloning and backing up with time machine, yes? If the answer is "yes", then it will requires a lot of storage to support both.
3) have u ever restarted ur Mac using the cloned external Lacie HD containing an image of the original Mac HD and time machine? If so, what happened?
4) if u had succeeded in creating a bootable time machine, after a month, does it restart with time machine at day 0 or at day 30?
5) does the Lacie d2 internally contains two hard drives, arranged in RAID 0 configuration? I read it somewhere that Mac does not support RAID 0 and thus can not be used as a bootable internal or external drive. Is this true? Perhaps, there is problem in creating the so called partition table. If this is true, then the glyph atom RAID SSD, can not be used as a bootable external drive. Yes?
Thanks for watching !
Answers to your questions as follow . The main purpose of this video was to show how to create the clone image of the internal HDD to a external HDD .
1: The Lacie D2 cloned thunderbolt HDD was single partition for this demonstration , although you can create two partitions , reserve one for clone image of the internal HDD and 2nd one for the time machine backups .
2: The time machine partition will create backups of the main system HDD( for this demonstration the built in HDD).
3: Yes and it rebooted successfully with intact cloned image of internal HDD and time machine backup of internal HDD. In order for cloned HDD to be the main system drive you need to tell the OSX that it is the main HDD and then restart then at this stage time machine would be disabled unless you have created two partitions .
4: did not check .
5: No D2 Thunderbolt 2 4TB is not RAID drive, Mac OSX does support RAID 0.
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Thanks for replying so promptly!
From ur answers, my understanding is when the external Lacie clone is used to restart the MAC by holding down the option key and then select the Lacie external drive, the MAC dost not see the time machine backup at all and as a result, the MAC is being booted by the clone alone. Likewise, when the MAC is trying to recover a lost file from the time machine, the MAC does not see the clone. If effect, the clone and the TM behaves as if they are located in two different partitions on the same Lacie hard drive.
The benefit is like u said having the bootable backup and TM on the same disks. However, the price paid is the External drive will need to have a size large enough to store the backup (which could be sizable) and TM.
Is my understanding correct?
Thanks again.
Correct !
Can you do this with Catalina? Two hard drives show Macintosh HD and Macintosh - Data. I chose data and I get error message - could not change the partition type for /dev/disk3s1 -
Thanks!
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This is what I did after installing my Fledging M13 SSD into my early 2015 MacBook Pro. I installed the new SSD erased and reformatted the Fledging SSD in APFS format and was able to use the cloned external drive back to the internal Fledging SSD. I am running Catalina 10.15.6. Just go slow.
The cloning process through DU from my internal HDD to SSD worked beautifully on my iMac 2011.. Cloning for me took about 2.5hrs.. Now I'm getting ready to take my iMac apart and install the new cloned SSD to my computer.. Anything I should be aware of by doing this? Should be a straight install now correct? Your video was super helpful and informative..
Covers De Jubilo did you have to do anything extra besides just physically installing the cloned hard drive? I’m about to do the same thing. Take the cloned SSD and install it as the internal bootable hard drive.
Everything works up to the point where I go to restore from the source and it says the source disk is not mounted. What now?
what monitor is that ? is that the new Curved SAMSUNG MONITOR?