It was running on a normal 750G HDD, but i wanted an upgrade, so i bought the Samsung V-Nand 850 EVO SSD 1TB. I created a Bootable El-Capitan USB Stick, so i could do a clean install. After i swapped the HDD with the Samsung SSD, i plugged in my Bootable USB stick and turned on my macbook. First it shows the apple logo with a loading line.
Hi Blackcells:
- Once downloaded, I was prompted to install El Capitan, I clicked yes, and it installed. Note: For detailed instructions on installing OS X to a new drive, click HERE. In this example’s instructions, a newer Mac was used, and it would and did call “Home” for the latest available OS which was then downloaded and installed.
- Follow the steps in this article if you are using OS X El Capitan or later. If you have not upgraded, follow our guide for earlier versions of OS X. If you are adding a drive to an existing setup, connect the SSD using a USB adapter or other external connection method and enter Disk Utility, or install the SSD internally into your system and enter Disk Utility via the OS X Recovery tool or your installation media.
I assume that you have gone into 'System Preferences' > 'Startup Disk' and set it to your original drive in data doubler.
Try removing your new SSD and putting it in an external caseOWC external case or using a USB to SATA adapter USB to SATA adapter and connect it to your MBP via USB.
Open Disk Utility>Erase and format the SSD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and a GUID partition.
Then use a third party application such as Carbon Copy Cloner Carbon Copy Cloner (Not free, but worth the price) or Super Duper to copy all data from the internal HDD as well as the recovery partition.
The clone will be a exact copy of your hard drive and it will be bootable.
Boot the MBP with the OPTION key and select the new SSD.
How To Install El Capitan On New Ssd Hard Drive
If it boots the MBP, perform the physical swap of drives.
Install El Capitan On New Ssd
Kim
Mar 9, 2016 4:07 AM