

If I try to partition the "Free Space" into a new volume, Disk Utility says it was successful, BUT then it will show that nothing has changed. Your destination is the drive where the clone will reside. In all cases Disk Utility wound up showing that nothing had changed. Part 1: Open Disk Utility Your source is the drive you want to clone. I tried to use Disk Utility to expand the "Mac HD" to use the rest (about 260gB) of the "Free space". The rest is "free space" according to Disk Utility. Select the source (the drive that you wish to clone) and press Enter. Double-click Disk Utility - Utilities from the search results to open it. Press Command+Space on your keyboard or click the Spotlight icon in the upper-right corner of the top menu bar to open Spotlight search. However, it only shows about 1/2 of the 500gB being available. Select disktolocaldisk cloning option and press Enter. Safely clone & image disk and partitions for data protection or disk upgrade, no complicated skills are required. Way 1: Open Disk Utility via Spotlight Search. Clone your hard drive to SSD (Solid State Drive).

The cloned SSD works fine, booting up and all that. How to backup clone Mac OS X HDD (Hard Drive) to external SSD disk drive. Restoring Verifying Inverting target volume. The log shows: Restoring Mac HD6 from Mac HD Validating target. I selected "proportional" (after looking at "manual" and not really understanding the options). Disk Utility to clone bootable drive I used Disk Utility to retore HD to another HD and a SSD but it didnt work. I recently used the 2016 version of True Image on Windows 10 to clone the boot drive (a 256gB SSD called "Mac HD") from my 2011 Macbook pro (running High Sierra) to a blank 500gB SSD.
