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Replaced HHD with SSD , Flashing Question Mark ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1814209" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>Phew! Well, glad you got there in the end. (I think)</p><p>Honestly for the small price of a dedicated external HD that you can leave connected and Carbon Copy Cloner set to perform regular updates you could have avoided all that effort.</p><p>My wife had a 2011 MBP with the above arrangement. The HDD died.</p><p>She rebooted holding the option key and chose the CCC clone to boot from. She was able to continue using the MBP like this albeit a bit laggy thanks to USB speeds. I ordered I new SSD and one week later installed it. Booted her MBP from the clone, launched the CCC app and selecting the clone as the source and the new SSD as the target copied the clone to the new internal drive. Took some time (500Gb) data but by the end of the day she was up and running. No formatting, no need to re register software, no need to reset system preferences, no nothing to do but wait till CCC did its job.</p><p>Honestly I cannot recommend a clone like CCC or Super Duper highly enough.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my ageing iPad Mini iOS 9.3.5 <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=95677" target="_blank">Mac-Forums</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1814209, member: 204485"] Phew! Well, glad you got there in the end. (I think) Honestly for the small price of a dedicated external HD that you can leave connected and Carbon Copy Cloner set to perform regular updates you could have avoided all that effort. My wife had a 2011 MBP with the above arrangement. The HDD died. She rebooted holding the option key and chose the CCC clone to boot from. She was able to continue using the MBP like this albeit a bit laggy thanks to USB speeds. I ordered I new SSD and one week later installed it. Booted her MBP from the clone, launched the CCC app and selecting the clone as the source and the new SSD as the target copied the clone to the new internal drive. Took some time (500Gb) data but by the end of the day she was up and running. No formatting, no need to re register software, no need to reset system preferences, no nothing to do but wait till CCC did its job. Honestly I cannot recommend a clone like CCC or Super Duper highly enough. Sent from my ageing iPad Mini iOS 9.3.5 [url=http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=95677]Mac-Forums[/url] [/QUOTE]
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