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alright, a bit of an update. I bought a new SSD (Samsung 870 EVO) just to see if the NVME was the issue. I did manage to clone my working install (860) to the new drive (870) without getting any errors from the script. The EFI copied successfully, using the same steps as I tried for the NVME...

Thanks for the quick reply! • Yes, I can mount the source EFI no problem with clover, opencore, hackintool, or EFI agent; • The source drive appears to contain a full EFI folder. Here is the pastebin of 'tree -F' inside that folder, not sure if I'm missing anything, but at this point this is...

Hello, I'm having an issue trying to restore my main NVME drive from a backup I made a month ago. I'm running Big Sur. I followed the steps in this mini guide for a Big Sur bootable backup last month and it worked great, as I am now running off that backup I made. I ran into a weird probably...

Awesome, thanks for the thorough explanation. This is what I was looking for in case I find myself having to pick a different one later down the line.

Ok, these are good points, thanks. I definitely ran into these issues with my mojave install. I guess I preferred keeping it internal just so I could automate backups. Probably worth it though to keep it external.

Looking at this guide here: Catalina/Big Sur: Configure Carbon Copy Cloner for One-Key Bootable Backup Purchase or use a USB 3 external SSD enclosure. These can be purchased from Amazon for under US$10. Here's an example. Install the SATA SSD into the USB 3 enclosure and connect the USB 3...

Ok, thanks! I don't use any of those things anyway :P

Ahh good to know. I'm kinda dumb when it comes to hardware, maybe somebody can help me pick the right one? I have an Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor and an MSI RX 580 ARMOR 8G Google says my CPU is 9th generation, and it says 'coffee lake' is 8th gen. The intel spec page for my...

Editing this post since I got it working: I just installed Big Sur successfully (so far) from scratch by hopping between guides in this thread. In case anybody needs to hear it, here's the steps I did. This is using a Big Sur 11.5 installer. 11.6 Probably works too. Format a flash drive...

what do you mean by security update? I'm having weird UAD issues, but they happen on windows too. In what way does it drop connection? On my machine I'll periodically hear a high pitched squeak noise, and then there's nothing I can do to connect my apollo to the software until I reboot. I...

Thanks @CaseySJ , Got opencore working successfully, but the issue still happens after 2-3 days. Got any other ideas before I just try to install Catalina and see what happens? I may as well mention also, I did have the issue with ethernet not working, and referred to @oopsmybad post here...

This is from quite a while ago, but I finally got around to completely re-installing Mojave from scratch, and the problem persists. Any other ideas? Maybe I should just finally update to Catalina and see if it happens there...

Thanks for the reply @CaseySJ . My backup script runs every single night, so I think it's safe to assume the problem exists there too. I will give it a shot anyway though, worst case I'll just do a whole new reinstall from scratch, no big deal. I just remembered that I actually created a spare...

I've been experiencing two issues lately with this build, figured I would post here in case anybody else has run into them and might have some advice. I can't seem to find a search function for this thread, so maybe the answer is somewhere in these 1,442 pages lol. I'm running Mojave 10.14.6...

I just wanted to give a huge thanks to @CaseySJ and everybody else involved for putting this work in and continuing to help others troubleshoot. I built my first hackintosh (and first PC build ever) using this guide, and everything has been working flawlessly with AptioMemoryFix. Been stable...