Cloning and Boot

[UndergroundStudio]

I'm not sure where to post this, and can't find anything relevant so please forgive.

Trying to copy Mojave, on from a Toshiba 256gb ssd drive to a 512 Adata ssd drive. I've used ccc, I've used Superduper, formatted new drive, everything copies, I've copied EFI from 256 Drive to 512, used multibeast to create a boot.. Most of the time I get a failed installation error, sometimes, it says Installed successfully. Shut down, disconnect original 256gb drive, and reboot. No boot loader. I've tried this a dozen times. Multibeast.log is empty. I've tried Clover boot install.. Failed installation, contact manufacturer. I must be doing something wrong...

I'm not by any means an expert, I've been using my hackintosh mojave for about a year.

Thanks...

 

[P1LGRIM]

Easy Way to make a Bootable Clone of your macOS System Drive

Update for Monterey in 2022 Due to changes Apple has made in Monterey I'd recommend that you now use CaseySJ's guide involving CCC and a script that will also copy the EFI partition for you. I've not tried Acronis with Monterey as I've not upgraded that far yet. So if you are on macOS Monterey...

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[UndergroundStudio]

I don't have a windows pc, but I did make a bootable usb of Acronis True image standalone.. Tried running it.. Desination drive needs 0 more free bytes of space to continue.. (Rolleyes), nothing seems to work.. I know the drive works, it's new and I've copied linux and it's boot no problems..

 

[trs96]

I did make a bootable usb of Acronis True image standalone

Did you make the USB for Windows or Macs ? They are both quite different.

 

[UndergroundStudio]

must be for windows... I can't seem to find True Image for Mac on a standalone boot.

 

[trs96]

must be for windows... I can't seem to find True Image for Mac on a standalone boot.

To clone a hackintosh drive you want to use the Windows version. Ironically, the Mac version doesn't even boot properly on a hackintosh. What I've found to work best is the Windows PE version of the rescue USB instead of the Linux based version.

 

[UndergroundStudio]

Now if I only had access to a Windoz computer. ugh.... Doesn't make much sense to me that I can use Multibeast to just install a boot loader on the new drive, and it successfully installs but won't boot.

 

[UndergroundStudio]

Well, I cheated.. Run Linux as well as mac, and usually hit F10 to choose the op I want at startup.. I just installed ReFind on Linux, so my non bootable clone drive will now boot from linux bootloader.