I have CarbonCopyCloner but it cannot see my new SSD in the destination section. The destination drive is a USB-attached SSD.
How do I clone to this drive in CarbonCopyCloner?
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Sign up to join this communityI have CarbonCopyCloner but it cannot see my new SSD in the destination section. The destination drive is a USB-attached SSD.
How do I clone to this drive in CarbonCopyCloner?
Before you can clone your hard drive with CarbonCopyCloner, you need to create a partition on the drive and format it appropriately for use with your Mac. Most external drives come pre-formatted for use with Windows machines.
You can use Disk Utility for this purpose. You'll find Disk Utility under /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
on your machine.
In Disk Utility, look along the left hand bar for the USB-attached drive. If it has a partition on it already you'll see the drive listed, with the partition indented below the drive in the list:
Select the drive, not the partition, and then use the Erase tab on wipe the drive. You want to format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
. You can give the drive a friendly name if you like. Once Disk Utility has wiped and formatted the drive with the appropriate file system you'll be able to use it as a clone target in CarbonCopyCloner:
IN DISK UTILITY SELECTED PARTITION THEN MADE 1 PARTITION ADDED A NAME FOR THIS SSD PARTITION AND APPLIED. THIS DID THE TRICK. NOW I CAN SEE NEW SSD IN FINDER AND CAN LOAD INDIVIDUAL FILES AND ALSO SEE IN CARBON COPY CLONER FOR FULL CLONE BACK UP.