2017 pro SSD upgrade in Monterey

[Inception_skwod]

I had purchased the SSD and adapter to upgrade my 128gb 2017 MacBook Pro. Last week I updated my system without even thinking it might affect my upgrade.

My system HD is APFS encrypted,
And I want to know how I can restore that to my new sabrent 1TB m.2 SSD I’ve seen at least a dozen videos and none of them are representative of my situation.

I have formatted it to APFS with GUID scheme, and it says there is a notification of device not configured properly. It is not APPLE_HFS or APPLE_UFS. What does that mean? When I have the new SSD formatted to Max OS extended Journaled it gives me a not formatted with GUID partition error. How can I fix this, and does Monterey update have any affect on my upgrade of SSD? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ptfuzi]

Last message says that it needs to be GPT (not mbr)

 

[Inception_skwod]

Last message says that it needs to be GPT (not mbr)

Yes, and then I made a format of APFS with scheme GUID and I got the error of not being type HFS or UFS. So I don’t know what that means.

 

[xristaki]

I have a similar problem. Also baught a converter but when i use superduper to clone. It says erasing disk then radondomly just restarts by itself and so it goes on everytime i try to clone. My 256gb ssd is formated is apfs. Please help

 

[Fishrrman]

If it's Monterey the drive needs to be APFS with GUID partition format.

I suggest you:
a. use that format
b. if things STILL don't work, TURN OFF all encryption and start from scratch...