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I recently purchased a 320 gb 7200 rpm hard drive to instal in my macbook pro. I know it's a tricky physical replacement, but I know I am up for it. Here's what I need help with:
What is the best way for me to transfer my current hard drive contents onto the new drive, including OS and applications. i have a ton of plug ins, and REALLY want to avoid having to reinstall / authorize all of them. Do I need an external hard drive enclosure? Any transfer software needed?
>Adam
What is the best way for me to transfer my current hard drive contents onto the new drive, including OS and applications. i have a ton of plug ins, and REALLY want to avoid having to reinstall / authorize all of them. Do I need an external hard drive enclosure? Any transfer software needed?
>Adam
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Re: Transferring to a new hard drive. help needed...
Sun, April 12, 2009 - 10:53 AMI suggest SuperDuper!, which works beautifully for system backups or migrations.
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Re: Transferring to a new hard drive. help needed...
Mon, April 13, 2009 - 1:57 AMThat looks great! SO, it should just make a perfect copy of my original drive, applications, plug ins and all!?! SOunds sweet.
Is it possible for me to clone my disk onto an external drive, switch my internal drive (booting off the external) and then clone back into my new internal drive? I don't have an enclosure.
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Re: Transferring to a new hard drive. help needed...
Mon, April 13, 2009 - 2:08 PMI don't understand. If you don't have an enclosure, how are you cloning to an external drive?
The way I usually perform these upgrades is to buy a new drive and enclosure, put the new drive into the enclosure, run SuperDuper! to copy the data off the current boot drive (setting SuperDuper! to shut down the machine when completed), then swap the drives, putting the old drive into the enclosure and the new drive into the computer. Everything has always worked seamlessly. -
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Re: Transferring to a new hard drive. help needed...
Mon, April 13, 2009 - 4:36 PMThat's right, I have a couple of external hard drives, but no enclosure that I can put my new internal drive into to make it external for the transfer. Makes sense?
Is it possible to just copy my current hd onto one of my externals, setting it to boot off of the external. Then put my new blank hd into the laptop, boot off of the connected external hd, and copy onto the new internal drive.
I know it sound complicated, but will it work with superdooper?
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Re: Transferring to a new hard drive. help needed...
Tue, April 14, 2009 - 12:00 PMI'm still not getting it. If you have an external drive, then it has an enclosure by definition. Otherwise you'd just have a bare drive (otherwise known as an internal). -
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Re: Transferring to a new hard drive. help needed...
Tue, April 14, 2009 - 1:19 PMIt sounds like he has just purchased external drives, Adam you just need to open up the external enclosure and swap out the harddrive. Once you have the enclosure open, there's no difference between an internal and an external harddrive (unless your external is a 2.5" laptop drive and your internal is a 3.5" drive).
You should take this question to the OSX forum, there's tons of experienced mac people there (where Jory is also moderator and will offer you the same expert advice as here). ;)
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Re: Transferring to a new hard drive. help needed...
Thu, May 7, 2009 - 5:13 AMIt's not a copy but a clone....
and yes, the workflow you describe should work.
but do you have enuf space on a partition on one of your externals?
You will need to wipe that one clean first..
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