troorl Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Hi. I have a stupid question. How one can move existing system to new SSD? I have fully functional OS X 10.9 on my HDD (on one of his partitions). Now I want to replace HDD with SSD and move exactly that system partition to new storage. Let's assume I've connected SSD in place of my old disk, and that old disk is available on some other interface. What's next? I guess, I need to boot from my installation flash drive, open Disk Utility, make new partition on SSD and clone the content of system partition there. Am I correct? And then what? Would it be bootable? Would Chameleon on my flash drive recognise it automatically and load it? Please give me some suggestions. P.S. I can't clone the whole HDD, because it's too big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphex6b Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Booting from the installer or recovery partition and cloning your existing environment works well. Another option is to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your system. But when using chameleon do not forget to set the partition active again (when your plan on booting from it, you can do this with chameleon wizard easily) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 i've always used superduper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troorl Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 Ok, thanks! I'll try it in few days and report about results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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troorl Posted June 16, 2014 Author Share Posted June 16, 2014 I've just finished. Everything works fine (except I can't install apps from App Store now). Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JahStories Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 which app? just to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troorl Posted June 17, 2014 Author Share Posted June 17, 2014 You mean app for cloning? I used superduper as you recommended, it's very simple and convenient. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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