Easiest way to clone SSD

[phly]

Good Day

I have a 256GB SSD in my Macbook Pro that I want to clone and have everything as is onto a bigger SSD. Whats the easiest way to do this? The current 256GB is partitioned and I have El Capitan on the one side that I use daily and I also have windows 10 running via bootcamp for games and window specific apps. I hardly use the windows side of things and I guess I can get by having parallels and running windows that way. I'm open to suggestions however as the main reason for bootcamp method is so that windows can utilize the full resources available and not share like in the parallels situation.

What app is recommended to do this and will the clone on the bigger 512gb be bootable?

 

[Dan C]

Acronis does everything for me... but it's not free

 

[Cassady]

Carbon Copy Cloner is my go-to. SuperDuper(?) is the other, that sees constant CCC v SD threads - both are equally good. CCC been around for ages, and bomb-proof, but it's not cheap. Think SD might not clone the recovery partition, IIRC - but that might have changed. Think SD had a free option (also, just check).

Pretty sure you can also clone using Terminal >> but think that would be for an entire disc sans a Bootcamp partition etc., so not sure if that would be possible given your situation.

CCC is not cheap - but I use it weekly. Time-Machine backup at home, CCC clones kept at work.

 

[itareanlnotani]

As above - use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) , its free for 30 days.

I usually use it once a laptop, then delete it.

 

[phly]

Thanks all, will try out CCC especially since i'm reading that Super Duper may not be able to copy/clone the recovery partition

 

[Arthur]

Acronis True Image 2017. Windows and Mac versions available. Also supports iOS and Android backup. $50-ish.

 

[Dan C]

Acronis True Image 2017. Windows and Mac versions available. Also supports iOS and Android backup. $50-ish.

Best software I ever bought, think I paid R250 odd for 2013 version. Still working 100%.

 

[Park@82]

Macrium Reflect

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Why not use the built in Disk Utility through Internet Recovery? Works perfectly for me and it's dead easy to use...

 

[phly]

UPDATE: Managed to win with Carbon Copy cloner. Took about 1hr 25 mins to clone the entire drive. Procedure was to backup the windows 10 with winclone then backup the entire drive that has the backed up image of windows with CCC and then run winclone upon booting from new drive and restoring the windows 10 image.

Thanks for all the input. All has been a success. All that remains is to restore the bootcamp partition but i'm sure that too will go as smooth as the rest of the procedure so far.