Cloning Macbook to SSD with MacOSX and Windows Bootcamp

[Abdulhaq]

I have a white unibody 2010 MacBook with 16 GB Ram and 1 TB Hard Disk. The hard disk is partitioned as 700 GB where Mac OS El Kapitan is running and 300 GB where Windows 10 is running. I am going to replace the 1 TB Hard Disk with 1 TB SSD. I am goint to use Carbon Copy to clone the entire Hard Disk to the exterally connected SSD in an enclosure. Then I will replace the hard disk with the SSD. I would like to to ask if the computer will boot properly from the SSD. Also I would like to know whether Windows 10 will run in Bootcamp like before or do I have to follow another procedure to backup the contents of Bootcamp and restore the same.

 

[Mike Boreham]

CCC will not clone the Bootcamp partition. There are various ways of doing what you want. I haven't done it for a few years now, but I had success with Winclone which is still around. Winclone makes a restorable image of the Bootcamp partition, so would be used in conjunction with CCC.
I also succeeded copying the whole drive (OSX and Bootcamp) in one operation with some block level drive copying programmes. Drive Genius had a drive clone which would do it, and also Copycat X.
I emphasise I haven't done this for a few years and certainly not since macOS went to separate System and Data volumes. (Edit see you are running El Capitan, so separate volumes won't be an issue).
You will find some discussion and get more answers in the Windows on Mac forum.

 

[Abdulhaq]

CCC will not clone the Bootcamp partition. There are various ways of doing what you want. I haven't done it for a few years now, but I had success with Winclone which is still around. Winclone makes a restorable image of the Bootcamp partition, so would be used in conjunction with CCC.
I also succeeded copying the whole drive (OSX and Bootcamp) in one operation with some block level drive copying programmes. Drive Genius had a drive clone which would do it, and also Copycat X.
I emphasise I haven't done this for a few years and certainly not since macOS went to separate System and Data volumes. (Edit see you are running El Capitan, so separate volumes won't be an issue).
You will find some discussion and get more answers in the Windows on Mac forum.

Thanks. I will explore this further.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Look up the command line program dd with the command man dd
Also do an internet search on using dd on a mac.
This command can be used to copy the whole disk.

Use the command diskutil list to see the drives attached.
If you only have the internal drive and the external SSD attached, you should see /dev/disk0 and /dev/disk1

The command to copy one to the other would be something like --
sudo dd if=rdisk0 of=rdisk1 bs=128m

Use rdisk as it is much faster than disk
The bs option sets the copy block size to 128 MBytes, with is lots faster than the default 512 bytes.
Be careful. if is the drive you are copying from and of is the drive you are copying to.