Cloning system only to bootable disk

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  1. alric, Nov 10, 2010

    alric macrumors member

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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.
     
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  2. spinnerlys, Nov 10, 2010

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    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.
     
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  3. LeeTom, Nov 10, 2010

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    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
     
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  4. alric, Nov 11, 2010

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