# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], but install the old Hard Drive in place of the optical drive, and install the SSD where the old Hard Drive used to be.
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# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], installing the SSD where the optical drive used to be.
# Boot into the MacOS installer by holding the option key .
# Go into Disk Utility from the installer.
# After telling the Disk Utility to “Show all Devices“, make a new partition on your SSD(call it Macintosh SSD or something different than the Hard Drive’s partition).
# On the SSD partition, click “Restore“ and choose the restore partition as “Macintosh HD“(or whatever your Hard Drive’s partition is named).
# After the “Restore“ process is finished, shut down the computer.
# Press the power button on the computer and immediately start holding the option key. Keep holding the option key until you get to the boot picker.
# In the boot picker, select “Macintosh SSD“(or whatever you named the SSD partition). If you don’t see Macintosh SSD, something has probably gone wrong.
# (Assuming you’re booted into the Macintosh SSD partition) Go into Disk Utility and erase all data on the “Macintosh HD“ partition.
To do a fresh install of MacOS:
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# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], but install the old Hard Drive in place of the optical drive, and install the SSD where the old Hard Drive used to be.
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# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], installing the SSD where the optical drive used to be.
# Boot into the MacOS installer by holding the option key.
# Go into Disk Utility and erase all data on the “Macintosh HD“ partition.
# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], but install the old Hard Drive in place of the optical drive, and install the SSD where the old Hard Drive used to be.
# Boot into the MacOS installer by holding the option key .
# Go into Disk Utility from the installer.
# After telling the Disk Utility to “Show all Devices“, make a new partition on your SSD(call it Macintosh SSD or something different than the Hard Drive’s partition).
# On the SSD partition, click “Restore“ and choose the restore partition as “Macintosh HD“(or whatever your Hard Drive’s partition is named).
# After the “Restore“ process is finished, shut down the computer.
# Press the power button on the computer and immediately start holding the option key. Keep holding the option key until you get to the boot picker.
# In the boot picker, select “Macintosh SSD“(or whatever you named the SSD partition). If you don’t see Macintosh SSD, something has probably gone wrong.
# (Assuming you’re booted into the Macintosh SSD partition) Go into Disk Utility and erase all data on the “Macintosh HD“ partition.
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To do a fresh install of MacOS:
# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], but install the old Hard Drive in place of the optical drive, and install the SSD where the old Hard Drive used to be.
# Boot into the MacOS installer by holding the option key.
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# Go into Disk Utility and erase all data on the “Macintosh HD“ partition.
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# Go into Disk Utility and erase all data on the “Macintosh HD“ partition.
To Keep the data from the old drive:
# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], but install the old Hard Drive in place of the optical drive, and install the SSD where the old Hard Drive used to be.
# Boot into the MacOS installer by holding the option key .
# Go into Disk Utility from the installer.
# After telling the Disk Utility to “Show all Devices“, make a new partition on your SSD(call it Macintosh SSD or something different than the Hard Drive’s partition).
# On the SSD partition, click “Restore“ and choose the restore partition as “Macintosh HD“(or whatever your Hard Drive’s partition is named).
# After the “Restore“ process is finished, shut down the computer.
# Press the power button on the computer and immediately start holding the option key. Keep holding the option key until you get to the boot picker.
# In the boot picker, select “Macintosh SSD“(or whatever you named the SSD partition). If you don’t see Macintosh SSD, something has probably gone wrong.
# (Assuming you’re booted into the Macintosh SSD partition) Go into Disk Utility and erase all data on the “Macintosh HD“ partition.
To do a fresh install of MacOS:
# Follow [guide|13787|this guide], but install the old Hard Drive in place of the optical drive, and install the SSD where the old Hard Drive used to be.
# Boot into the MacOS installer by holding the option key.
# Go into Disk Utility and erase all data on the “Macintosh HD“ partition.
# Install MacOS onto the SSD.
# Reboot the computer.