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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    ...aand I feel so stupid. Seeing your screenshot made me realize I was reformatting the partition, not the actual drive itself. Originally it gave me an error and when I tried again it worked, then did the cloning process, mounted the EFI with no issue, copy/paste, unplugged original drive and...
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    Hmm.. that is what I had done but I'll do it again and see if that plus clearing the extra boot options in the bios fixes it. Thanks!
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    If i wanted to start over and initialize the drive and clone again, what would my first step be? Reformat in disk manager and clone again? Are there specific parameters I should format with? Or is there a way to initialize it that I may have missed?
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    Scratch that, I have NO idea why it was seeing that and worked. Once I removed the original drive I had no boot options, though I had like 4 UEFI OS "drives" in the bios... I mainly just wanted to replace the drive because it felt like my old one was starting to hang when idle for more than a...
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    So I mounted disk0s1, then disk2s1 and it mounted with an empty EFI this time. I copy/pasted the EFI folder and now the drive boots by itself, though the bios sees the drive as a Seagate Slim (is this from the new config.plist you gave me?) which I don't have issue with as long as it works. But...
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    So there are now 3 disks I can mount, and no matter which one I try to mount in EFI Mounter, it just mounts the one on the drive I'm running on (it mounts the folder with the zipped copy that I uploaded, that shouldn't be in the other drive). Any thoughts?
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    What do I do once I've replaced the config.plist? Also, I have also found a EFI backups folder in each drive that has EFI folders from when I updated to Sierra, is this something worth looking at as well?
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    How would you like me to post it? Screenshots of the folder(s)? Sorry, I have some depth of computer knowledge but it gets very shallow in other spots.
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    Hence my confusion... I initialized it in disk utility when I first plugged it in. Might I be missing something simple in CCC? I'm running everything sata->sata, should I try to use a usb dock? And yes I used sudo in command. I also get the error I posted above when mounting the disk1s1 efi in...
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    I got " Volume on disk1s1 failed to mount If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option If the volume is an APFS Volume, try the "diskutil apfs unlockVolume" verb " Not sure why it would be considered damaged, but it refuses to mount the new drive's efi. Thanks for the help so far!
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    Used CCC on the drive and looks like it's all there, just can't mount the new EFI or access it. I feel like I missed a step or something went weird... please advise and thanks everyone! Also I'm running sierra but never updated the name, hence the ElCap->Sierra change
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    When trying to mount the new EFI, I get a "AppleEvent handler failed" error window. "Finer got an error." I can mount the old EFI just fine.
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    Cloning a hard drive to a new bigger SSD!

    Trying to do this now and haven't done anything to my mac in a while so some of this is going over my head... I have the drive copied and can boot when the old drive is still plugged in. If someone can clear up how to copy the efi over to the new drive I would deeply appreciate it. I'm not...
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    Old Laptop Died, looking to use Hard Drive

    Thanks for responding! I will try that.
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