Transferring everything from an internal HD to an ext SSD

[nick_p...@mac.com]

Would love some advice if possible.

I have an incredibly slow 2011 iMac which runs High Sierra. 500GB HD.
I have a 450GB SSD which I’d like to use externally as the main drive.
I thought I had cracked it but the smaller SSD (than the internal HD) was a problem even though I am only using 50% of the internal HD space so SSD easily big enough.

Disk Utility restore doesn’t seem to work (I get an error message) so I’m a bit stuck.
Any ideas gratefully accepted…..
Nick

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

I’d erase it in Disk Utility then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone to the erased drive. As it’s an SSD you can erase it as APFS, High Sierra will boot fine.

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On 10 Apr 2021, at 18:25, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Would love some advice if possible.

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[nick_p...@mac.com]

Thanks Sam. I’ll try Superduper as I haven’t currently got a copy of CCC. If I can’t get that to work I’ll download CCC.

Nick

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

You can download a trial of CCC from bombich.com

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On 10 Apr 2021, at 19:54, nick_public1 via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Thanks Sam. I’ll try Superduper as I haven’t currently got a copy of CCC. If I can’t get that to work I’ll download CCC.

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[Nick Holt]

Thanks Sam. Good to know.

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On 10 Apr 2021, at 20:18, Sam - MacAmbulance <in...@macambulance.com> wrote:

You can download a trial of CCC from bombich.com

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