If you’re connecting via AirPort, you may be prompted to connect to your wireless network.
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Select the option to “Reinstall OS X” choosing the SSD to install the OS on.It is very important to note that you should not use the version of Disk Utility in the Recovery Partition it will see the two separate drives as a “damaged” Fusion drive and try to repair it allowing it to do so will destroy your data. Restart to the OS X Recovery Partition by holding down Command-R until you get the Recovery Partition’s main window.While it’s preferable that you connect via Ethernet, you can connect via AirPort it will just be slower. Make sure you’re connected to a network.Once the drive is formatted and shows in the Finder, you can then shut down.You can then click the “Apply” button to format the drive. Select “1 partition” for the Volume Scheme, set the format to “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and give the drive a name.Select the SSD from the list on the left side of the Disk Utility window and Click on the Partition tab.
If you don’t get this warning, you can find Disk Utility at Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app
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If you are one of the affected Mac mini owners, then installing an SSD is a little different. If one or more of these factors are not involved, then you don’t have to worry, you can proceed as normal. If your installation involves all three factors, then you need to pay attention, as your installation will be affected.
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That 2012 Mac mini shipped with Mac OS X 10.8.2.This particular instance affects you only if: It’s a bit of a “perfect storm,” but it’s worth noting if you’re adding an SSD as a second drive in your Mac mini. Many backup programs for the Mac do NOT do a great job at preserving metadata.The “Fusion Drive” option for the 2012 Mac minis can cause some severe data loss if you’re not careful. Before you buy any Mac Backup program, make sure it backups or copies ALL the metadata associated with EACH file (such as BSD Flag, ACLs, Extended Attributes, Lock Flag, permissions, resource forks). (Of couse, as a consumer, I would like to see a LOWER price). Both are a lot less expensive.Ĭonsidering that most programs that do drive recovery are historically expensive, I do not think that the price for Cop圜atX is unreasonable. If they are not, I would use Carbon Copy Cloner (donationware $5 or more) or SuperDuper ($28 or so). If these features are important to you, then consider buying Cop圜atX. It will copy a drive to MULTIPLE destination drives. It works under Linux, FreeBSD and Mac).Ģ.
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(If you want a truly FREE solution for drive recovery, use a command line program like GNU ddrescue. It will attempt to recover a damaged drive with bad blocks. I believe that SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner can copy the Time Machine Drive (or Partition) when it does the clone in the block copy mode (or a bit for bit copy)īut I do see two advantages of Cop圜atX over its competition:ġ. Please correct me if I am wrong.Ĭop圜atX is not the only program that can copy your Time Machine Drive (or Partition). I don't think Cop圜atX gets around this limitation. So if you are trying to make a clone of your System drive, you cannot do a block copy of the drive but a file copy of your drive. But before ANY program can do a block copy (or a bit by bit copy) the drive must be UNMOUNTED. Even the free command line utility provided by Apple called asr can do a block copy of drives. Both SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner can do that. I believe that some of the comments made below by the developers of Cop圜atX could be seen as a little misleading.Ĭop圜atX is NOT the only program that can do a block copy of a drive.
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