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gpspad

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Feb 4, 2014
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So I got the Crutial SSD Drive, an external usb enclosure, and a copy of the carbon copy cloner program.

I want to have the SSD drive cloned and ready to go when I open the mini and put it into the old hard drives bay.

I am kind of lost about how to clone the disk. I cloned my disk with CCC, and booted up holding the option key, but now have a list of a bunch of different drives and not sure if I cloned the drive correctly.

Shouldn't the new drive just boot up from the disk, not go into rescue mode?
 
I would do a clean install of Yosemite on the SSD. Put it in your Mini and build your system up from there with your apps etc.

M.
 
So I got the Crutial SSD Drive, an external usb enclosure, and a copy of the carbon copy cloner program.

I want to have the SSD drive cloned and ready to go when I open the mini and put it into the old hard drives bay.

I am kind of lost about how to clone the disk. I cloned my disk with CCC, and booted up holding the option key, but now have a list of a bunch of different drives and not sure if I cloned the drive correctly.

Shouldn't the new drive just boot up from the disk, not go into rescue mode?

sounds like you did it right, you should be seeing 4 drives. a recovery and primary partition from each drive. the icon gives away the drive connection. choose the primary partition from the USB attached drive.
 
Just figured it out; once you have cloned the disk with Yosemite, you have to add a clone of the recovery disk. You can't get that option until you first clone the disk.

Next step; Im going in for the surgery, the tough part....
 
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