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Hi All. Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I tried the search feature for the thread and got things that clearly were not from this thread, so I'll ask. I had my Mojave build on a 1TB SSD internal on my Hackintosh (@CaseySJ 's build) and it's working great. I got a 2TB SSD and used carbon copy cloner to migrate the OS. Worked fine. However, if I don't have original boot drive plugged in, the machine just goes to BIOS and sits there. I assume I'm missing the bootloader, but I wanted to know if it's possible to install just the partitions I need without wiping the 2TB SSD (since I've been working on it for months).
Also, if anyone can point to or just list quickly what the steps are for updating the new SSD and what needs to be there so I can free it up, I'd greatly appreciate it. When I started on this build, there were maybe 50 pages on this thread...now there are 2300 and yikes. Hard to swing back into it.
Thanks very much for any help.
I'm going to reply to my own message, and maybe it will help others. It's been a long time since I've messed around with this and I had forgotten that there is an EFI partition that needed the boot files! Opening Clover allowed me to mount it on both the new and old drive and a simple drag-copy worked perfectly. I solved my own issue (and am very pleased with that) but hopefully it'll help others in the future too. Thank you, all.