Moving OS to new disk

[Musictosh]

I just got a M2mve card on my Dell hackintosh running Mojave (have been running without issues for two years).
It was instantly recognized. I used Carbon Copy Clone to clone the system drive to the new disk and chose it as thge startup disk in system preferences.
Did not work.

Can I rename the new disk to the "System disk", give the old system disk a new name and it will work?
Any other things I must do? Change the config file?

 

[UtterDisbelief]

I just got a M2mve card on my Dell hackintosh running Mojave (have been running without issues for two years).
It was instantly recognized. I used Carbon Copy Clone to clone the system drive to the new disk and chose it as thge startup disk in system preferences.
Did not work.

Can I rename the new disk to the "System disk", give the old system disk a new name and it will work?
Any other things I must do? Change the config file?

Did you remember to install your working EFI folder into the new SSDs EFI partition? Carbon Copy Cloner does not do this bit, as I understand it.

 

[Musictosh]

I thought it just made a complete copy og the whole disk

 

[UtterDisbelief]

I thought it just made a complete copy og the whole disk

No, it does not copy over your EFI folder.

You need to do this part manually.

 

[chiefhowie]

I use a 2T usb Scan Disk for Online stuff. I have working USB. restored Cat from my iMac Dell HD. with disk utility. I use my install usb for start up disk.Then choose disk to boot.

 

[Musictosh]

No, it does not copy over your EFI folder.

You need to do this part manually.

Where is it. I hjave forgotten

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Where is it. I hjave forgotten

Sounds like you might be making fun of me.

It's one of the hackintosh basics -

Check Disk Utility for the disk number of the old drive you wish to copy from.

Mount the EFI partition of that old disk# using EFI Mounter v3.1 from our Downloads section.

Copy the EFI folder to your Desktop.

UnMount the old disk.

Check Disk Utility for the disk number of the new drive you wish to copy to.

Mount the EFI partition of that new disk# using EFI Mounter v3.1

Copy the EFI folder from your Desktop to the new, empty EFI partition.

Job done.

 

[Musictosh]

Sounds like you might be making fun of me.

It's one of the hackintosh basics -

Check Disk Utility for the disk number of the old drive you wish to copy from.

Mount the EFI partition of that old disk# using EFI Mounter v3.1 from our Downloads section.

Copy the EFI folder to your Desktop.

UnMount the old disk.

Check Disk Utility for the disk number of the new drive you wish to copy to.

Mount the EFI partition of that new disk# using EFI Mounter v3.1

Copy the EFI folder from your Desktop to the new, empty EFI partition.

Job done.

Not making fun ogf you. I did thid two years ago using a ready made hack that worked with my PC.

Thanks

Sounds like you might be making fun of me.

It's one of the hackintosh basics -

Check Disk Utility for the disk number of the old drive you wish to copy from.

Mount the EFI partition of that old disk# using EFI Mounter v3.1 from our Downloads section.

Copy the EFI folder to your Desktop.

UnMount the old disk.

Check Disk Utility for the disk number of the new drive you wish to copy to.

Mount the EFI partition of that new disk# using EFI Mounter v3.1

Copy the EFI folder from your Desktop to the new, empty EFI partition.

Job done.

The system disk reads as disk5s1, but it does not show up in the EFI mounter list. When I try using Terminal it says "Resource busy"

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Not making fun ogf you. I did thid two years ago using a ready made hack that worked with my PC.

Thanks

The system disk reads as disk5s1, but it does not show up in the EFI mounter list. When I try using Terminal it says "Resource busy"

Okay. That means it does not have an EFI partition.

The first thing to do is change Disk Utility to "Show All Devices".

Go to the View menu of Disk Utility and change to "Show All Devices" -



(Yes, this is a newer version but yours will say the same).

Then, when you highlight the lowest part of the drive tree, you will see the correct disk-number.

With the APFS system there are virtual containers as well as disks and this can confuse things.

Here's what mine looks like:



So this means that the EFI partition, for my disk, will be at: disk0s1 etc.

If this doesn't show in EFI Mounter v3.1 then the disk itself is in the wrong partition format.

 

[Musictosh]

Okay. That means it does not have an EFI partition.

The first thing to do is change Disk Utility to "Show All Devices".

Go to the View menu of Disk Utility and change to "Show All Devices" -

View attachment 575788

(Yes, this is a newer version but yours will say the same).

Then, when you highlight the lowest part of the drive tree, you will see the correct disk-number.

With the APFS system there are virtual containers as well as disks and this can confuse things.

Here's what mine looks like:

View attachment 575790

So this means that the EFI partition, for my disk, will be at: disk0s1 etc.

If this doesn't show in EFI Mounter v3.1 then the disk itself is in the wrong partition format.

Thank you. I copied all content in the working EFI folder to the EFI folder on my new disk (system disk has already been cloned). Chose the new disk as startup disk i n system preferences, but still not working. It stops at the clover startup page and I have to manually choose system disk as the startup disk. The new disk does not show up as an alternative