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While in the Finder, go to the "Finder" menu and select "Preferences". From the "General" tab, place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will make your hard drive visible on the Desktop. From the "Sidebar" tab under "Devices" again place a check next to "Hard disks" -- this will put your hard drive in the sidebar of any finder window, and should also add it to "Open", "Save", and "Save As Improve this answer.

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It's not a clone then. Do you have some reference of this? That would be great to know : — Karolos. Thanks for confirming that you can do this from a larger disk to as smaller one.

Your method is then much easier than mine. I thought that you needed to make a file-copy given the difference in size. Show 2 more comments.

At this point, you can just get data from the old install; no need for a Time Machine backup. If you have a Macbook Pro you can only fit one internal disk. The Time Machine method works well in this case. Hope this is helpful. Max Max 21 1 1 bronze badge. How did you shrink it? I didn't see this option in Disk Utility.

Then I installed this script onto my machine Disable or sleep secondary hard drive in Macbook and now I can dismount, and spin down the old hard drive when I am not using it. Community Bot 1. Karolos Karolos 2, 11 11 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Martijn Heemels 2 2 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. ZaB ZaB 2, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. How do you make a service disk?

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