grawk Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 Antonio, time machine should work great for that 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpedo Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 Antonio, time machine should work great for thatGood to get confirmation, it's been my usual approach since I became a Mac user. Thanks for the replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted January 5, 2018 Report Share Posted January 5, 2018 7 hours ago, grawk said: Antonio, time machine should work great for that Agreed. I complete trust the Mac OS cloning/recovery interface, Windows not so much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzziguy Posted January 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2018 On 1/4/2018 at 5:42 PM, n_maher said: Ken, Why clone? Is there software that you want to transfer but don't have install files for or something? Otherwise, I think it's always best to start with a fresh install of the OS. All the instructions I found specified cloning, so I didn't think of a fresh install. I see the advantage of a fresh install. The advantage of cloning is that it's simpler than a fresh install, just 1 step instead of 3 or more (back up user files, do install, restore user files) for a fresh install. Since I have no experience at either of these, I'll explore the fresh install route. So far I have the SSD initialized and formatted. Now I can worry about putting the files on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcpoor Posted January 6, 2018 Report Share Posted January 6, 2018 Macrium Reflect has worked well for me in the work situations where cloning was needed. I prefer to do a clean/fresh install as well, but dread the time and work needed to get everything reinstalled and configured. I've been putting off upgrading my primary 120GB SSD to a 500GB I've already purchased for months now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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