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Well spotted! Didn't know that
Use this guide to Clone HD with no additional software:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/mac-hard-drive-cloning-the-eas-141889
Not tried myself though!
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I have a 2012 mac mini and I purchased the OWC SSD which should be arriving within the next couple of days. I was just going to clone my current internal hard drive. Then once it was cloned to the SSD format the old one and use it for storage. Is cloning to the SSD not recommended? Am I better off doing a clean install?
If you just clone and then reformat your original drive you'll be left without a recovery partition.
I installed a SSD as a second drive. I booted into the recovery partition of the original drive, and from there I did a clean install of ML onto the SSD. That created a recovery partition for it. Then I deleted the partitions of the original drive and reformatted.
Is it the Mini version of Mountain Lion? You cannot use the standard Mountain Lion installer. It will refuse to run.I got a mac mini 2012 yesterday and bought a Samsung 830 SSD to put inside it.
Now i installed the SSD without any problems but when i tried to boot the mini up to install mountain lion through USB i only saw a cross in the screen and then the system shut down.
What the hell am i doing wrong ??
Is it the Mini version of Mountain Lion? You cannot use the standard Mountain Lion installer. It will refuse to run.
You need to boot into the recovery partition of the original drive and install Mountain Lion from there. That will download the correct version.I didn't know that there was a mini version of Mountain Lion
What am i supposed to do now ??
Thanks in advance for everybody's help
I ordered a Mini with Apple installed SSD. Anyone know if this is a 'blade' SSD or a 2.5"?
You need to boot into the recovery partition of the original drive and install Mountain Lion from there. That will download the correct version.
I would put it in a USB enclosure and boot from it as an external drive.Forgive me but i don't understand......
How can you use the recovery partition from the original drive when i replace this with the SSD ??
I am not using this as a second drive in the mac mini.
Is it the Mini version of Mountain Lion? You cannot use the standard Mountain Lion installer. It will refuse to run.
If you just clone and then reformat your original drive you'll be left without a recovery partition.
I installed a SSD as a second drive. I booted into the recovery partition of the original drive, and from there I did a clean install of ML onto the SSD. That created a recovery partition for it. Then I deleted the partitions of the original drive and reformatted.
Yes, I've read this elsewhere. Interestingly (at least I thought it was interesting) I received a 2012 Mini Server yesterday and it came with 10.8.1 installed (which I've since updated to 10.8.2). Is the current 'standard' 10.8.2 version downloadable from the App store not able to boot and reinstall ML on the Mini?
Good to know. When I booted into the recovery partition, it had to download the installer anyway. Took about an hour.You can actually erase the whole hard drive, there is a recovery partition online for Mountain Lion. I should know as I actually did it by mistake, luckily Apple has that back up option as long as your connected to wifi.
BE CAREFUL ON UNPLUGGING THE IR CABLE Mine ripped the entire socket off the circuit board. Keep in mind I have been building/repairing PC's for over 25 years. Not a big deal to me since I don't use the IR remote thankfully but a quick call to OWC revealed that this is happening to a lot of people. The tech I spoke with has personally handled 10 cases so far.
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