I did not have to manually copy EFI folder to the EFI partition on the clone. CCC actually did clone the EFI partition and I had a bootable clone. Recently I updated from El Cap to Sierra, but I cloned my main drive to another internal SSD of a different size. I was searching for an answer to this event: I have used CCC for all of my cloning. And thanks anyway trs96 for the work you've done on this method.
After that it'll probably be CCC + install clover + copy efi. But because i'm a psycho, i'm still trying one thing, Acronis 2020, to see whether that makes a difference. So my faith in Acronis is almost completely shattered (i've used it in the past on windows). And also like ATI 2017 it left a Microsoft reserved partition on the drive. While it was bootable and worked normally, it didn't extend the machd volume to match the larger drive. But now it seems fine and i'll try upgrading to Mojave now on the Sierra SSD. I've had that prohibited symbol with another hack every now and then and have no clue what it's about. Or the fact i've had to do all kinds of weird **** the whole day to get this done. That might have had something to do with the pc for some reason loading the post screen twice, dunno. There was one weirdness though: the second time i restarted i got the dreaded prohibited symbol. Update2: It completed it successfully and after that i was able to normally boot from the clone. You can also build a rescue media with this so you don't have to have a Windows install afterwards necessarily.
The software apparently only requires you have at least one Crucial drive connected to use it and seems to have pretty good functionalities (as my experience earlier with a WD edition of Acronis True Image) so this is definitely a viable option since it's free (given you have at least one Crucial drive at hand). Still have to test it though, will report back.
I got the Win10 usb stick working (did it on another windows 10 pc) and seems that Acronis True Image for Crucial is doing it right. If not, i guess i'm left with trying the CCC method.
Well, possibly because it can't clone/restore on a larger disk properly nor nowadays afaik doesn't support apfs.Ĭurrently trying to see whether Crucials Acronis version would do it (and trying to get a portable w10 usb going for this, ugh ). I've always used Clonezilla since it does a proper clone of the disk and wondered why people don't use it when it seems the only free software that does it simply and perfectly. I'm aware of that method, but trying to avoid it since it's not a proper clone cause you have to modify it for it to work. click here to read more.Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's GuideĬlick to expand.Thanks for the hint.