This video shows you how to upgrade your MacBook Pro to a Solid State Drive SSD and goes through the process of how to create a bootable USB with OS X El Cap. The full guide on how to install an SSD into a macbook pro, create a bootable usb Yosemite drive and install it on the newly installed SSD.Terminal Commands.
Hi Blackcells:
I assume that you have gone into 'System Preferences' > 'Startup Disk' and set it to your original drive in data doubler.
Try removing your new SSD and putting it in an external caseOWC external case or using a USB to SATA adapter USB to SATA adapter and connect it to your MBP via USB.
Open Disk Utility>Erase and format the SSD to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and a GUID partition.
Then use a third party application such as Carbon Copy Cloner Carbon Copy Cloner (Not free, but worth the price) or Super Duper to copy all data from the internal HDD as well as the recovery partition.
The clone will be a exact copy of your hard drive and it will be bootable.
Boot the MBP with the OPTION key and select the new SSD.
If it boots the MBP, perform the physical swap of drives.
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