![]() Still don't try any action with a PCIe partition!Īfter complete operation, disconnection of external drives and restart, the mini instantly started up exactly the same as before the disk replacement. Then I cloned the whole HDD with the "as is" option to the new SSD without automatic resizing! (SSD was a little bit bigger so I tried that but the result of such attempt was a Fusion Drive malfunction, no access to a Recovery Partition and impossibility to update macOS because of an error). When the SSD was already inside (I didn't touch a PCIe disk at all), I attached the old HDD as an external drive through a USB enclosure and booted up from an external optical drive with an Acronis True Image HD bootable DVD (you can try another such third party software but I found that cloning a Boot Camp Partition with the Apple Disk Utility doesn't work well). A detailed instruction of disassembling a Mac mini is available on iFixit. Lack of a special T6 Security Torx Screwdriver was a little problem but I luckily could brake out security pins from the chassis screws, making all of them a regular torx (though I strongly recommend buying a proper screwdriver on eBay as well as the logic board removal tool instead of my laundry wire hanger, especially if your Mac is still covered by a warranty). ![]() I carefully replaced the original internal Apple HDD with the same capacity ADATA SU800 1TB SSD. I backed up all my data first so I could try a couple of methods before I found the right one described below. ![]()
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