How To Clone iMac HDD to New SSD [Backup Clone]

I don't think you know what clone means.

video quality is atrocious

And what about EFI? Do you need to clone it as well?! Without EFI the system isn't bootable!

If I clone my HDD to SSD and then swap the HDD out for the newly cloned SSD, will the computer boot as normal? I want to do an upgrade if the HDD but would like to have the software pre =-installed.

That's really precise and wonderful. 😂
But did you know it doesn't work for all in the first attempt. It also didn't work for me, I had to run the doctor icon in recovery mode and disk utility on my every partition to be able to clone the macOS disk.

I have a 2011 Mac, CMR isn’t working to get me into recovery mode.

What happens when u use APFS

does not work, especially not on M 1 and ventura!

Why did you used a slow USB port when you have the Thunderbolt 3 port at 40Gbs? Kinda dumb

Didn't work for me... I got a screen with white writing, with a failure message in a different language on every line.

I have my HDD partitioned on my Macbook (Windows on half), & Upgrading to an SSD, Would this clone both partitions?