How to Clone a Mac Hard Drive to Different Mac?

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I have a 500GB hard drive, a MacBook Pro, and an iMac.
I want to move any important files from my iMac to my MacBook.
How can I realize this?

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For your needs,
here is the step-by-step guide:

1.Save must-keep files from the iMac.
2.Clone the MacBook Pro to the external drive.
3.Erase the iMac.
4.Restore the iMac in Recovery Mode with your external drive.
5.Post-restore checks.
6.Keea a safety network and wait.

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To copy everything from one Mac to another, you can use Migration Assistant, the built-in macOS utility that transfers your files, settings, and applications. Simply connect the two Macs using Thunderbolt, Wi-Fi, or Ethernet, then follow the prompts in Migration Assistant to complete the transfer.

You can also read: How to Clone Mac Hard Drive to External SSD

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For a full and safe clone of your iMac data, iBoysoft DiskGeeker for Mac is a better choice than Time Machine or a cloud service.
It can clone your Mac’s main drive and create a one-to-one copy, fully bootable for another Mac.

  1. Download, install, and open iBoysoft DiskGeeker for Mac.
  2. Select the Mac hard disk at the left sidebar.
  3. Click Clone from the right toolbar.
  4. Choose your external SSD as the target drive, then click start clone.
  5. Connect the drive to another Mac in Recovery Mode, then restore the data from the drive.