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A guide to build your own Hackintosh based on Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master
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macOS BigSur clone SSD to NVMe/M2 #99

Closed onastvar closed 3 years ago

onastvar commented 3 years ago

I'm running macOS BigSur 11.4 on SAMSUNG 860 EVO SATA. I purchased Samsung SSD 970 PRO NVMe M.2 and used Carbon Copy Cloner & SuperDuper to clone SATA to M2.

There are no errors in CLONING however, I cannot boot from Samsung SSD 970 PRO NVMe M.2, after reboot i only can see BIOS setup. I can still boot macOS BigSur from SAMSUNG 860 EVO SATA.

Are there any other steps needed in OC to make NVMe bootable or Carbon Copy Cloner & SuperDuper are not capable of cloning bootable disks?

ttran-089 commented 3 years ago

Check if you got the right EFI folder in the new SSD.

onastvar commented 3 years ago

Thanks @ttran-089.

I checked EFI folder was missing on Samsung SSD 970 PRO NVMe M.2. I manually copied it from SAMSUNG 860 EVO SATA and now I can boot from NVMe M.2. Thanks a lot!

I guess Carbon Copy Cloner nor SuperDuper did not copy/clone any files in EFI partition.