ryouitou Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 (edited) I recently installed macOS Catalina Public Beta 4(19A512f) onto Kinston HyperFuryX 120GB SSD, a few days later I decided to upgrade to a 512GB SSD. Here is the problem, can I clone it? It has two partitions, and basically they are same. I don't know what to do, use specific Terminal command or just reinstall? any advice? Thanks a lot. Edited December 21, 2019 by ryouitou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matgen84 Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 There is Carbon Copy Cloner. But it's a beta as usual before macOS Release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryV Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 This might help if CCC beta does not: https://www.belightsoft.com/products/resources/apfs-bootable-clone-with-command-line Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMinimizer Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 Try backing up your Catalina System to a TimeMachine backup drive, then boot to restore, select restore from time machine backup. Make sure you copy your original Catalina EFI folder to the new drive EFI folder. It will work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dralausky Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 (edited) I think you can try timemachine to backup and restore to new ssd,it's very nice. as up said,I also recommand this. Edited October 8, 2019 by dralausky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micheldiz Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) I use "Paragon Hard Disk Manager" and it is perfect. Works with APFS (And you can do it from Windows). I've used to make a safe "snapshot" before doing any upgrade or testing. Also, I have a NAS with timemachine on, just in case. Edited October 11, 2019 by Micheldiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britishboxer Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) On 9/28/2019 at 6:50 PM, MrMinimizer said: Try backing up your Catalina System to a TimeMachine backup drive, then boot to restore, select restore from time machine backup. Make sure you copy your original Catalina EFI folder to the new drive EFI folder. It will work! I just upgraded a MBP SSD using a TimeMachine back up. 1-I booted with ext TimeMachine HD connected and new SSD installed (with NO OS!), 2-Once restarted i used disk tools to format the new SSD as APFS 3-I then restored from the TimeMachine back to th new SSD. 4-After this was asked to log into the iCloud account. Done deal I have no idea what all this EFI stuff is, i can't even find it or any option., sounds like BETA. --> Superduper gave me errors --> Carbon Copy Cloner said beta (too slow anyways) Just use TimeMachine! Edited December 8, 2019 by britishboxer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefiredragon Posted December 8, 2019 Share Posted December 8, 2019 Or use clonezilla it's free and works nice for all hard drives. You can boot from clonezilla clone to external or internal drives if you have some experiance with linux it's easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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