Cloning system only to bootable disk

[alric]

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.

 

[spinnerlys]

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.

 

[LeeTom]

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

 

[alric]

I think the Migration tool might work. I'll post the results.