Hey, My old HDD from my MacBook Pro is getting rather slow and I want to replace it with a SSD. I want to clone the HDD straight to the new SSD, is this possible without losing my Bootcamp partition? Will everything still function the same, other than the improved performance? And what software will I need for all this to work? Thanks a lot in advance for any assistance!
Hi there, it seems you need a tutorial to clone macOS to an external SSD. You can learn how to clone macOS to an external hard drive here:
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Launch Disk Utility. To do this, you can use Spotlight Search to find and launch the application. Simply press the Command + Space bar at the same time and then type in Disk Utility. It will then show up as one of the results.
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Once you’ve launched Disk Utility, select the backup drive that you would like to clone your Mac hard drive to as the target drive. Lastly, click Restore.
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Disk Utility will display a new window with a drop-down menu labeled Restore from. Select your Mac SSD (normally APPLE SSD XXX) from the drop-down menu as the source drive., then click Restore to begin the cloning process.
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Then, Disk Utility will show you a status bar that slowly fills up as it clones your drive. When it’s finished, click Done to complete the operation.