

Install your old hard drive in your usb enclosure and use it as a back up drive. restart your macbook and you should have a startup time of 14 sec. If you find that your boot time in your new ssd is too slow - go to system preferences - startup disk and select your ssd as your startup drive. Replace the retaining bar and tighten the two black screws. Start by placing the SSD into the rubber grommets on the edge of the MacBook Pro followed by gently letting the SSD fall into its place in the bay. Once the clone is done - install your ssd in your macbook - turn it on and your back in business. Line up the SATA connector with the SSD and the MacBook Pro, and attach them together. Source drive (your old hard drive) destination drive (your new ssd drive)Ĭlick on clone - you might get a pop up message saying that a recovery partition wasn't created - create one using carbon copy and proceed with the clone. Open disk utility - format/erase your ssd to mac os extended journaledĬlose disk utility and open carbon copy and proceed to clone your drive. Install your ssd in your external enclosure.

Second - download carbon copy - free to download.Īssuming you've installed and downloaded carbon copy and have a usb external enclosure. When you decide to go SSD.Here are the step by step on how to do a data transfer.įirst - make sure you have a usb external enclosure or a usb data cable.
