Straight Drive Swap?

[MrPunk2u]

I own a 2009 Mac Mini with a SSD I installed myself - it's running 10.8.3

I Just purchased a 2012 Mini, and want to swap its hard drive for my 2009's SSD

Can i just do a straight out swap and not have to clone, etc etc

 

[opinio]

you could clone your SSD to an external drive and boot from it on the new 2012 to see if there are any configuration issues. I know you said you don't want to clone, but this cloning is more to run a test first. If it works ok on booting from the clone I do not see why it would not be the same with booting from the SSD (once installed in the new 2012).

 

[MrPunk2u]

you could clone your SSD to an external drive and boot from it on the new 2012 to see if there are any configuration issues. I know you said you don't want to clone, but this cloning is more to run a test first. If it works ok on booting from the clone I do not see why it would not be the same with booting from the SSD (once installed in the new 2012).

great idea! thanks