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Can you just drag and drop internal HDD to new SSD?
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1753210" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>What you were told is partially correct. If this were most situations dragging files from the internal drive to the SSD would work. That doesn't work if you want to make a bootable copy. That's what you need if you want to make the new SSD bootable. </p><p></p><p>The easiest way to do what you want to do is to download a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper. Install either of these programs onto the internal drive and run the program. Either program will do what you want. Super Duper does not however make a copy of the Recovery partition that OS X builds on your drive. When you run the program choose your internal drive as the source drive and the SSD as the destination drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1753210, member: 131855"] What you were told is partially correct. If this were most situations dragging files from the internal drive to the SSD would work. That doesn't work if you want to make a bootable copy. That's what you need if you want to make the new SSD bootable. The easiest way to do what you want to do is to download a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper. Install either of these programs onto the internal drive and run the program. Either program will do what you want. Super Duper does not however make a copy of the Recovery partition that OS X builds on your drive. When you run the program choose your internal drive as the source drive and the SSD as the destination drive. [/QUOTE]
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Can you just drag and drop internal HDD to new SSD?
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