Insert your system recovery/installation DVD in your optical drive.
#EXTERNAL SOLID STATE BOOT DRIVE MAC MAC#
Open up the Mac (using instructions from ) and swap the two drives.ģ. Log in as a user who does *not* have FileVault enabled and do a Time Machine backup.Ģ. Set the startup drive and you're done.įor those who want to use this procedure, which has the advantage of not requiring a $30 Universal HDD Adapter but has the disadvantage of not allowing you to test your SSD before you install, the steps are:ġ. Then open up the Mac (using instructions from ) and swap the two drives. You can then clone your hard drive to it with Carbon Copy Cloner, making sure you are logged in as a administrative user who does *not* have FileVault enabled. I'd suggest turning your brand-new SSD into a temporary external USB drive using a Universal HDD USB Adapter from Apricorn or NewerTech and format it as HFS Extended Journaled, 1 partition, with Disk Utility. Upgrading to a SSD is easy, if a bit expensive. This prevents a 30-second timeout before the boot starts.
The fix is to go into System Preferences » Startup Disk and select your new solid-state drive. However, you may find that everything is faster except the boot from reset, with the initial Apple logo not appearing for about 30 seconds. If you've just upgraded from a disk drive to a solid-state disk, booting from reset should take about 15 seconds, logging in should take about 5 seconds, and applications should launch about three to five times faster.
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