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alric

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May 10, 2004
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I am trying to do clone the system only from my current hard drive to a smaller internal SSD. Tried with SuperDuper but the resulting drive was not bootable even though it had the system folder.

Has anyone done this successfully?

Thanks.
 
You could try with CarbonCopyCloner, but I recently got an SSD and just used the Installation DVD to install Mac OS X fresh and have no problems with it. It seems to be recommended to do a fresh installation and not cloning the HDD to the SSD.
 
try this:
create a new admin user, login using that user
delete your old account, use the backup option when deleting to create a dmg of your old user account and back it up somewhere else
remove any unused apps and their supporting files
clone THAT cleaned up system
 
I think the Migration tool might work. I'll post the results.
 
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