Upgrading Storage / restore step

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Mac mini (2024)

Guias de reparo, informações sobre desmontagem e resolução de problemas para o terceiro grande redesenho do popular computador de mesa compacto Mac mini da Apple, lançado em outubro de 2024. Equipado com SoCs M4 e M4 Pro e um mínimo de 16 GB de memória unificada.

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Upgrading Storage / restore step

I have a question about upgrading the storage on the new Mac Mini M4. I bought the base model. I have the 2T SSD card upgrade on the way from store.m4-ssd.com. I haven’t even turned on the mini yet. I am confident that I can switch out the SSD physically. But I am unclear about how to get the 2T SSD card to work. I don’t have an extra Mac lying around to use Apple Configurator. I do have a Surface Pro running windows. Can I restore the Mac mini from iTunes? The surface has 2 x USB-C® with USB 4.0 / Thunderbolt 4. So I would just have to download iTunes, run iTunes when I and connect the Mac mini to the surface pro, and turn on the mini in DFU mode. Do I have these steps right?

Or is the only way to do this is with another Mac?

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DanJ @danj Rep: 502,1 mil Self employed contract worker 35 346 977 · Answer 1 · 2025-01-29T05:31:34-07:00

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The required method is using the Apple macOS tool Configurator tool from a second Mac connected via a USB-C Thunderbolt compliant cable. Time to find a friend with a M series Mac who can help you out.

Reference:

Revive or restore a Mac with Apple silicon using Apple Configurator
How to revive or restore Mac firmware - The process its self.

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Dave @dave66052 Rep: 1 · Answer 2 · 2025-02-24T15:03:40-07:00

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As an alternative, if you have a Linux box lying around you can build the idevicerestore project. I used the same SSD from m4-ssd.com and used the idevicerestore project to flash the drive. Some distros have the binary present but I found the the version distributed did not detect the newer M4 models. After building from source the M4 was recognized and I was able to flash.

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/idev...

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Sorry they won’t work here. Apple uses a serialization strategy which requires access to multiple chips within the system, similar to how the iPhone is protected.

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