(I first tried to restore using Disk Utility, but it gave me grief because my 1TB backup disk was larger than my 120GB SSD.) The one problem I ran into was that FileVault was not enabled on the new SSD, and when I went to activate it, OS X gave me an error saying that FileVault couldn’t be turned on for my disk. Restoring from SuperDuper worked a treat. New SSD installed and case re-attached, I booted the Mac up from my SuperDuper backup and set about restoring my old system, with fingers crossed. (One thing I later wished I’d had handy: a can of compressed air, to disperse some of the dust that had accumulated inside the case.) Surprisingly compact, right?įollowing iFixit’s instructions made the process pretty painless: The only real worrying moments are unplugging connectors from the logic board-that’s the point when one false move could land you in much hotter water than you’re already in.īut all told, the whole process from start to finish took only about 20 minutes-and part of that was retrieving scissors from the other room when I realized I couldn’t rip open the anti-static bag the new SSD came in. The MacBook Air, mid-surgery, its delicate innards exposed to the world.
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