transferring an existing custoMac system to an SSD

[bpalmer4]

I have a fully functional custoMac.

It works fantastic.

I have purchased an SSD to speed things up a bit.

Rather than go through the entire install again, can I transfer my existing system to the SSD?

 

[rabbit74]

Yes.

Disc Utility's "Restore" function does a flawless job of this.

Just plug in your ssd and boot to your existing install and then use "Restore" to copy the whole system to the new drive.

Then re run multi-beast to install the bootloader to your new drive.

reboot and make sure your bios is pointing at the new SSD as primary boot drive and your done. With an SSD drive this process should take about 10 minutes.

Have fun

rabbit.

 

[mooquu]

I dont even think you need to re-run multibeast, through this method you are cloning the drive and everything in it, it will read as the same disk, i did it last week

 

[bpalmer4]

Thanks.

It worked a treat.