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Working with cloning drives running Big Sur, Monterey or Ventura you will need a machine that can run that software ideally a machine that can run the latest Ventura software. Without the latest update you will be restricted to working from the software your Mac is running. Within this article we are going to use a MacBook Air 2017 to clone Big Sur and Monterey (currently the air will only run Monterey) and a MacBook Pro 2018 running the latest version of Ventura.
On macOS Ventura and above, the Energy Saver settings (including scheduling) have been moved and slightly renamed due to the redesign of System Preferences into System Settings.
In this video we are going to go through how we would run our software update of our External Booted Drive running Sonoma.
If you have a Windows hard drive that needs formatting for a Mac then this short video will show you how to do that. Before watching the video you will need to take the hard drive out of the Windows machine and place it in a hard drive caddy plugged into your Mac.
This short video shows you how to upgrade your Hard drive on a MacPro 2013.
Tools: 1 x T8 Torx Screwdriver.
1 x SSD M.2 NVME (check before you buy it does work with the model)
Time: 2 minutes to do around 1 hour to install the Operating System.
Skill: Easy
Most Apple Engineer have most probably got several USB Ext hard drives they use as a clean boot system (operating system) for testing purposes. With that in mind creating the drives is somewhat time consuming and to replicate the drive setup from scratch can encounter glitches. If you have a bootable drive and require either a copy or a hardware upgrade of the USB drive your best option would be to look at cloning the drive to a new USB ext drive. We are going to look at anything from Catalina and before within this article.
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