My MacBook Pro has been running out of hard disk space for some time. I'm down to less than 1GB of free space on both my Macintosh HD and the Boot Camp Windows 7 partition. So I hopped on NewEgg and got a WD Black 500GB notebook hard drive and 8GB's of RAM for $150. Installing the RAM was a piece of cake, but moving the data over to the new drive proved much more tricky. Here's how I finally got my 250GB dual boot drive cloned over to the new 500GB drive.
[the problem]
You have a Boot Camp partition on your mac hard disk so you can't just do a straight clone of the entire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper (those programs don't clone the Windows partition). Since you also have a larger drive, you don't just want to do a sector by sector clone leaving you with a new drive that has the same partitions as the old drive.
Clone Mac Boot Drive To Ssd
A broken Mac computer with Mac OS X. A trial copy of the TransMac software. One high quality USB flash drive with 16GB of storage. A copy of Apple's macOS (DMG file). Now that you have all the necessary ingredients, you're ready to make a Mac OS X bootable USB using the DMG file of the operating system with the steps below. Here's how I finally got my 250GB dual boot drive cloned over to the new 500GB drive. the problem You have a Boot Camp partition on your mac hard disk so you can't just do a straight clone of the entire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper (those programs don't clone the Windows partition).
[the solution]
You simply attach your clone drive, restart while holding down the Option key, select the clone drive in OS X's Startup Manager, and press Return. A few moments later, you're back up. Download: Carbon Copy Cloner 3. Stellar Drive Clone. This free disk cloning software for Mac effectively protects your data from system failure. It creates an identical and ready to use a copy of your hard drive and even makes the partitions in the same way as they are in the actual location. The ideal disk cloning software will allow you to easily clone your hard disk drive (or solid state drive) as a backup. There are a number of reasons why you might want to do this, but the main.
This solution will allow you to copy your partitions from your current dual boot Mac setup with Boot Camp to a larger drive but re-size the partitions at the same time. I went from a 250GB drive partitioned into 200GB Mac and 50GB Windows to a 500GB drive with 380GB Mac and 120GB Windows partitions.
[step 1] Attach the new drive to your MacBook using a SATA t0 USB adapter or a USB hard drive enclosure.
Clone Mac Boot Drive To Ssd
A broken Mac computer with Mac OS X. A trial copy of the TransMac software. One high quality USB flash drive with 16GB of storage. A copy of Apple's macOS (DMG file). Now that you have all the necessary ingredients, you're ready to make a Mac OS X bootable USB using the DMG file of the operating system with the steps below. Here's how I finally got my 250GB dual boot drive cloned over to the new 500GB drive. the problem You have a Boot Camp partition on your mac hard disk so you can't just do a straight clone of the entire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper (those programs don't clone the Windows partition).
[the solution]
You simply attach your clone drive, restart while holding down the Option key, select the clone drive in OS X's Startup Manager, and press Return. A few moments later, you're back up. Download: Carbon Copy Cloner 3. Stellar Drive Clone. This free disk cloning software for Mac effectively protects your data from system failure. It creates an identical and ready to use a copy of your hard drive and even makes the partitions in the same way as they are in the actual location. The ideal disk cloning software will allow you to easily clone your hard disk drive (or solid state drive) as a backup. There are a number of reasons why you might want to do this, but the main.
This solution will allow you to copy your partitions from your current dual boot Mac setup with Boot Camp to a larger drive but re-size the partitions at the same time. I went from a 250GB drive partitioned into 200GB Mac and 50GB Windows to a 500GB drive with 380GB Mac and 120GB Windows partitions.
[step 1] Attach the new drive to your MacBook using a SATA t0 USB adapter or a USB hard drive enclosure.
[step 2] Format the new drive using a single partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system.
[step 3] Download Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper (I used Super Duper) and clone your existing Mac hard drive to the new USB Drive.
[step 4] Install the new drive into the computer and boot it. Fl studio mac demo version. It should boot up the same way your Mac booted up with the old drive but you won't see your Boot Camp partition.
Bootable Drive Clone
[step 4] Run the BootCamp Assistant and create a Windows partition with the desired size on the new primary drive. At the end of the wizard select Quit & Install Later.
Clone Boot Drive Ssd
[step 5] Attach the old drive via a USB enclosure or SATA to USB adapter. Check to make sure you can access the old Boot Camp Windows partition.
[step 6] Download & install WinClone 2.3.3 and create an image of the USB attached Boot Camp Windows partition on your old drive. You can save the image on a network drive if you need additional space or just put it on the mac partition of of the old USB attached drive.
[step 7] Restore the WinClone image to the Boot Camp partition you created in [step 4]. Download office for mac trial version.
