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Old 12-14-2011, 09:02 PM   #316
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Not possible without an enclosure, you need to connect the new drive some how to transfer your data.

If you are trying to clone your main drive while still running/booting from that drive you will not be able to do a block level clone. This means that your partition structure will not be copied over. The only way to do a block level clone is to boot from another/third hard drive or the restore disc and select disk utility.

If doing a file level clone then you must format and partition the new drive using apple disk utility. Choose the drive, select partition, choose 1 partition, choose guid partition type (not windows mbr type), and filesystem type hfs+ journaled.
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