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I carbon copied the drive from my 2008 Aluminum Macbook to an external (wd my book for Mac). And also have time machine back up. Right after that despite no previous problems my original hard drive stopped working. Disk utility stated it was corrupt and unrepairable. I already had a new drive. I can’t seem to boot to the external. What’s the best way to get my things transferred to the new drive. I need to format the new drive, transfer data and install the operating system. I tried putting in an old OS X snow,leopard cd but won’t boot to that either. frustrated by these roadblocks. My old drive was running Yosemite New drive is solid state Samsung eve 250 gb
I hook up an external drive, launch disk utility, format the external drive, then restore the internal HDD (source) onto the external drive (target). Depending on the OS, I sometimes have to do this from “Restore Mode.” Once done, I swap HDD’s. This is in my opinion the best and simplest and cheapest and safest way to clone an HDD onto a new one even of different capacity.
