The restore process may take some time and it depends on the size of your data on the drive. Restore from: Select the old drive from the drop-down and then click the Restore button.Now, you need to select the drive that you want to restore.Here, select the new SSD from the left side and click the Restore option from the top.

You will see the macOS Utilities screen where you need to select the Disk Utilities option.

Restart your Mac and press and hold Command+R keys from the keyboard while booting up.

To clone the drive you need to restart and go to the macOS Utilities.

See also: Format a drive to use on Mac and Windows Now your new SDD is ready to use on your computer.

Click Done to close the formatting screen.

Let it complete the formatting process and after that, it may ask you to use the drive for Time Machine, click the Don’t Use button.

Click the Erase button to format the drive.

Scheme: leave it to the default value “GUID Partition Map.”.

In my case, it was macOS Extended (Journaled).

Format: Select the same format that you noted down in the step-2.2 above.

Click the Erase option from the top to enter the required information.

Now, select the new SSD drive from the left side.

macOS Extended (Journaled)” as we need to format the new SSD drive according to that format.

Select the old drive from the left side and it will show you the drive information.

You will see the connected internal or external drive listed on the left side.

This will open up the Disk Utility application.

You might see an error message on your Mac screen “The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.” Don’t worry, just click the Initialize… button so we can format it to use on Mac.

Insert your SDD in the external enclosure and plug in the USB to your computer.

To transfer all the data from the current drive to the new SSD, you need an External Enclosure.Clone the hard drive and replace it with SSD Plug in the new SSD You can buy one from Amazon for your computer. I am going to use Crucial MX500 SSD which costs me around $58. If you are still using a hard drive on your Mac you should consider it to upgrade to SSD, because it’s much faster than the regular drive and after seeing the SSD performance this is the best you can do with your computer. You might have a different SSD drive, you can find an external enclosure that is compatible with your drive. Drive enclosure to clone the drive, I recommend SABRENT 2.5-Inch SATA to USB 3.0.SSD drive of your choice, my recommended brands are Samsung, Crucial with the storage capacity of your choice.The process is fairly easy and you can easily do that without losing and data. I was trying to replace my HDD with a new SSD on my Mac and decided to show how we can clone the existing hard drive to the new Solid State Drive.

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