both OS X and and Windows booted successfully, and obviously much faster than they had previously. their faq explains everything.)ĩ) Swapped the hard drives so that the SSD was now internal.Īnd voila. (NOTE: Your Windows partition will not be bootable unless you do this. (NOTE: Windows can't boot from the external enclosure, so if you swapped the drives in step 4 like I did, you'll need to swap them back so that the HDD is once again internal.)ħ) Used Casper 6.0 to clone my to clone my internal HDD Windows partition to the external SSDĨ) Used Casper Explorer within Casper 6 to apply a Windows master boot record to the now-cloned Windows partition and mark the partition as active. (Make sure it has enough capacity to receive all of the contents from your old HDD Boot Camp partition.)Ħ) Booted into Windows on the old HDD. Just hold down option while powering up the computer and select the external SSD.)ĥ) Used Boot Camp Assistant to create the NTFS Boot Camp Partition on the new SSD. In fact that's a good way to verify the clone job worked. Mac OS Extended, Journaled)ģ) Used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my internal HDD Mac partition to the external SSDĤ) Booted into OS X on the now-cloned new SSD drive (I swapped the drives to boot the SSD internally rather than via USB 2.0 for better performance, but you can boot it while still in the external enclosure. * Casper 6.0 for the Windows side (not free)ġ) Put my new SSD in the external enclosureĢ) Used Disk Utility in OS X to format the SSD (the usual. * Carbon Copy Cloner for the Mac side (free)
* SSD (mine was a Mercury Extreme Pro from OWC, their site has good tutorial videos if you want to see how to do everything)
So neither will be able to clone your Boot Camp partition. Neither Carbon Copy Cloner nor SuperDuper! support cloning NTFS-formatted drives/partitions. Having just done the same thing, I can say that the previous replies are not fully accurate.