Transferring data from an external Drive to a new SSD Internal drive on my mid 2010 Mac Book Pro.

Thanks karina 184. I did have a chat with Apple the other day, and they did provide this link also. I backed up my data via Time Machine from my internal old drive. I will now transfer my data from the backup on the external hard drive back to the new internal SSD drive.

Tom

Hi karina 184. I noticed one of the articles discusses erasing data on the internal hard drive. Since I am replacing the old internal hard drive with a new SSD drive, I don't think the erasing step is needed? As I mentioned I plan to install the new SSD internal hard drive, then use the Time Machine to transfer the backed up data from the original hard drive to the new internal SSD drive.

Am I right in my assumption? Also will I need to format the new internal SSD drive before transferring data to it?

Please advise,

Tom

Thanks Leanne 68,

I think I was missing the step of formatting the new Internal SSD. It looks like I need to use to erase/format the blank SSD Internal hard drive before transferring data from my backed up external hard drive to the newly installed SDD internal hard drive? Please verify.

Tom

Hi Manjor,

I am doing it right now as I type. Installing macOS right now. Thanks for replying.

Tom