How to Clone Mac Hard Drive to Crucial External SSD?

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PCMag.com selects Crucial external SSD as one of the best 10 external SSDs for Mac. If you want to use an external storage device as a backup drive for your Mac, Crucial external SSD is a good choice. In this article, we will talk about how to create a full bootable clone backup for Mac with a Crucial external SSD.

Best Disk Cloning Software for Mac

The best way to prevent data loss on your Mac is to make a backup of your entire Mac system regularly. The built-in backup application - Time Machine can help you back up your Mac to an external hard drive. But, Time Machine can not make a bootable clone for your Mac. If you want to copy everything of your Mac to a Crucial external SSD and make it be bootable, you can try disk cloning software.

Donemax Disk Clone for Mac is a powerful, easy-to-use & 100% safe Mac disk cloning application which is fully capable of creating a bootable clone for Mac machines. With this cloning application, you can clone everything of your Mac hard drive to a Crucial external SSD, creating a full bootable clone backup drive.

Prepare Your Crucial External SSD for Disk Clone

First of all, connect the Crucial external SSD to your Mac. If you have important data stored in the Crucial external SSD, just copy the data from the SSD and paste it to your Mac or another drive. Then open Disk Utility to format the Crucial external SSD to APFS.

When the process gets finished, click on Done button. Now, you can use Crucial external SSD as the destination drive of disk clone.

Steps to Create A Bootable Clone for Mac with Crucial External SSD

Disk Clone can help you clone everything stored on your Mac startup disk to an external disk such as Crucial external SSD. Now, follow the steps below to create a 1:1 bootable clone backup for your Mac with Crucial external SSD.

Step 1. Connect Crucial external SSD to your Mac, then open Donemax Disk Clone for Mac. (After installing, go to Launchpad, find Donemax Disk Clone, click to open this app.)

Step 2. To make a bootable clone for your Mac, just choose OS Clone mode.

Step 3. Select the Crucial external SSD as the destination drive. Then click on Clone Now button.

It will securely clone all data including macOS, user files, apps, settings and other files from the Mac to the Crucial external SSD.

The disk cloning process can't be terminated once it begins. So remember to keep your Mac in charge or make sure it has enough power. Don’t use your Mac before the clone ends.

Once the process gets finished, you can check the cloned data on the Crucial external SSD, and use the Crucial external SSD as a boot drive on any Mac.

If you only want to copy the data from your Mac to the Crucial external SSD, just choose mode - Disk Copy. Select the Mac hard drive as the source drive, select the Crucial external SSD as the destination drive, then click on Copy Now button.

Disk Image mode can help you create a disk image backup for your Mac, then save the backup to the Crucial external SSD.

Clone Mac Hard Drive to Crucial SSD FAQs

🇶 1.How to make Crucial external SSD as a startup disk for Mac? 

• If you want to use the Crucial external SSD as the startup disk, you should create a bootable clone of your Mac to the SSD.
• Download and install Donemax Disk Clone.
• Choose OS Clone mode.
• Select the Crucial external SSD as the destination drive.
• Click on Clone Now button to clone all data from the Mac to the Crucial external SSD and create a bootable clone.

Then shut down the Mac, restart it, press and hold Power button until you see the macOS Recovery mode. Select the Crucial external SSD as the startup disk, restart the Mac.

🇶 2.How to restore Mac from the cloned data stored on the Crucial external SSD? 

• First of all, connect the Crucial external SSD to your Mac.
• Restart the Mac, press and hold the Power button (If you are using an Intel-based Mac, press and hold Command+R), then enter into macOS Recovery mode, select Options, click Continue.
• Then on Utilities window, select Disk Utility.
• Select the Mac startup disk, click Restore.
• Select Restore from Crucial external SSD, then click Restore again.

🇶 3.How to format Crucial external SSD for Mac? 

Just connect the Crucial external SSD to your Mac, then open Disk Utility. Select the Crucial external SSD and click Erase. Select the correct file system, click Erase again. Make a backup before you format your Crucial external SSD.

🇶 4.How to clone Mac hard drive to Crucial external SSD? 

If you want to make a clone for your Mac with Crucial external SSD, follow the steps below:

• Download and install a disk cloning app on your Mac, then open the disk cloning app.
• Select the Mac hard drive as the source drive, then select the Crucial external SSD as the destination drive.
• Click on Clone Now button to clone Mac hard drive to the Crucial external SSD.

Conclusion

Mac Disk Clone is making a 1:1 copy of your Mac. Disk cloning software can easily clone everything stored on your Mac to the external hard drive including Crucial external SSD, and make a bootable clone backup. Donemax Disk Clone is an easy-to-use disk cloning tool. With this tool, you can easily clone your Mac hard drive to a Crucial external SSD and you can use the Crucial external SSD as a startup disk for your Mac.