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Straight Drive Swap?

MrPunk2u

MrPunk2u

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 25, 2007
44
5
West Hollywood, CA
I own a 2009 Mac Mini with a SSD I installed myself - it's running 10.8.3

I Just purchased a 2012 Mini, and want to swap its hard drive for my 2009's SSD

Can i just do a straight out swap and not have to clone, etc etc
 
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opinio

macrumors 65816
Mar 23, 2013
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you could clone your SSD to an external drive and boot from it on the new 2012 to see if there are any configuration issues. I know you said you don't want to clone, but this cloning is more to run a test first. If it works ok on booting from the clone I do not see why it would not be the same with booting from the SSD (once installed in the new 2012).
 
MrPunk2u

MrPunk2u

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 25, 2007
44
5
West Hollywood, CA
opinio said:
you could clone your SSD to an external drive and boot from it on the new 2012 to see if there are any configuration issues. I know you said you don't want to clone, but this cloning is more to run a test first. If it works ok on booting from the clone I do not see why it would not be the same with booting from the SSD (once installed in the new 2012).
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great idea! thanks
 
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