Swapping disks help - OSX <=> Windows

[CeeeWeee]

Hi all,

I need to swap disks and would appreciate your input on my plan. (reason for doing this is that i need way more space on my Windows partition compared to my OSX partition (games!!!))

I have 2 SSD's - (A)1 500GB for OSX and (B)1 250GB for Windows.

Clover/EFI is right now on disk A.

I want to swap the two.

The plan:

Step 1: CCC Carbon Copy disk B to external USB disk
Step 2: CCC Carbon Copy disk A to disk B
Step 3: (Boot on drive A and) create/install Clover on disk B
Step 4: Copy contents of EFI/Clover from Disk A to Clover installed in step 3
Step 5: Boot on Disk B - Now the OSX on disk B with 250GB
Step 6: Remove Clover/EFI on Disk A
Step 7: CCC Restore USB Disk to Disk A - Windows is now on the 500GB disk

Will this work? Both OSX and Windows? Will my bios be confused by A vs B? What can go wrong?

Thanks a lot for your input!

 

[CeeeWeee]

While trying to answer the questions myself i stumble upon several articles that indicate that the Windows partition is the problem here.

I therefore have a plan B - which includes Clonezilla.

The Plan B:

Step 1: CCC Carbon Copy Disk A to external USB disk
Step 2: Create/install Clover on external USB disk
Step 3: Copy contents of EFI/Clover to Clover installed in step 2
Step 4: Clone(Zilla) Disk B to Disk A - Windows is now on disk A
Step 5: Boot on external USB disk with OSX
Step 6: CCC Carbon Copy contents from external USB disk to Disk B - OSX is not on Disk B
Step 7: Create/install Clover on disk B
Step 3: Copy contents of EFI/Clover from external USB to Clover installed in step 7

Better??

 

[CeeeWeee]

I never got it to work...anyone that tried this, please help!

 

[Going Bald]

Create a Win10 recovery USB.
Create an image of the Win10 drive and copy to an external device.
Format the Win10 drive for Mac OS.
Clone the Mac drive to the newly formatted drive. Install boot loader and get it working and booting by itself, same as the old drive. Disconnect this newly cloned drive, leaving the larger drive connected.
Boot the Win10 recovery, open a command window (shift+F10)
use disk part app to clean the Mac OS off of the drive:
diskpart
list disk

\\this gives you a list of your connected drives - since you should have only one connected, this should not be a problem - note the drive ID - say it is disk0)\\

select disk0

\\you should get a reply "Disk0 selected\\

clean all

\\this should get reply that it is cleaning the drive - when complete, you will have a drive like it was fresh from factory\\

exit
exit

Now you use the recovery app to restore the Win10 image to the newly cleaned drive.

 

[CeeeWeee]

This sounds exactly what i need...I will give it a try over the weekend.

THANK YOU!!!

 

[CeeeWeee]

Swap completed succesfully. What did the trick was your input to "clean" the to-be windows disk with "clean all".

Other than that i used Winclone 7 for the Windows Drive and CCC for the Mac drive.

All good

 

[Going Bald]

Swap completed succesfully. What did the trick was your input to "clean" the to-be windows disk with "clean all".

Other than that i used Winclone 7 for the Windows Drive and CCC for the Mac drive.

All good