Refit and SSD Installaiton

[robster2644]

Hi all,

I was just wondering after insatlling my SSD and enabling TRIM, whats the best way to copy My current system to the new SSD.

I'm currently running Mountain lion with Windows under Bootcamp with Refit app. Is this going to be easy?

Also I have damaged my installation disks whilst moving home, is there a way to make a bootable USB stick.

TY

 

[GGJstudios]

Here's a simple approach:

1. Buy an external enclosure and put your old drive in it.
2. Install your new drive in your Mac.
3. Boot from your external drive by holding the Option key on startup.
4. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the old (external) drive to the new (internal) drive.
5. Boot from the new internal drive.
6. Your now running on your new internal drive and your old drive is now an external drive, useful for backups or additional storage.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Activating TRIM can actually be a bad thing in many newer SSD drives.

 

[robster2644]

Here's a simple approach:

1. Buy an external enclosure and put your old drive in it.
2. Install your new drive in your Mac.
3. Boot from your external drive by holding the Option key on startup.
4. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the old (external) drive to the new (internal) drive.
5. Boot from the new internal drive.
6. Your now running on your new internal drive and your old drive is now an external drive, useful for backups or additional storage.

I have tried to booting using the Option Key, it some how does not work due to have refit installed.

I think im going to have to re-install everything. I just need to make a carbon copy of my iMac