How to Fix Which is better for moving from a HDD to SSD: Cloning the drive, or reinstalling with Migration Assistant?
This mini-guide provides a structural approach to troubleshoot and fix the issue.
Prerequisites
- Confirm your hardware specifications (CPU, GPU, Motherboard).
- Ensure you have a bootable recovery USB and backup your EFI.
Fix Steps
- Boot with
-v keepsyms=1 debug=0x100to identify the exact kernel panic. - Validate your config.plist using ocvalidate.
- Ensure your EFI matches the Dortania guide specifications for your CPU generation.
Verification
- Reboot and verify if the functionality is restored and stable under typical usage.
Original Question:
I've been using my hack for a little while now and just got an SSD to improve its performance. However, I'm unsure of what process to pick to migrate all my data to the new drive:
- One, I could use an utility like Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the HDD to the SSD, and just booting from the SSD. The challenges with this are the possible need for SSD-related kexts and performance issues with macOS not being originally installed to an SSD (I don't kno w if it needs to be in order to take full advantage of it).
- Two, I could install macOS to the SSD and then use Migration Assistant to move all my data frm the HDD. I'm not sure if all data will be transferred, and whether or not it is "safe" (I assume that since it's the same machine with the same kexts etc. nothing too bad can happen).
Out of these two, which is the best and why?
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