HDD upgrades

Phate · 22 Sep 2008 at 23:09

Right.

Does Time Machine have any wonderful way of working it's magic so if I installed a 500gb drive it could copy everything across and make this my new system drive?

Many Thanks

PureSx · 22 Sep 2008 at 23:41

You can back everything up with time machine and then restore the time machine backup on the new HDD.

Phate · 23 Sep 2008 at 00:03

PureSx said:
You can back everything up with time machine and then restore the time machine backup on the new HDD.

Right, but I don't have the storage space or bays and cba messing around.

If I just bung the 500gb in can't I just back the main drive up to the 500gb and then take out the main drive and use the 500gb as the new main?

lol thanks!

Darryn · 23 Sep 2008 at 00:20

Phate said:
If I just bung the 500gb in can't I just back the main drive up to the 500gb and then take out the main drive and use the 500gb as the new main?

I used a program called CarbonCopyCloner to do exactly that... Adobe apps dont like it but everything else worked perfectly.

The other option, and probably better, is to re-install OSX on the new drive and then at the final stages of installation it asks if you want to migrate any settings and apps from other machines, point it at your old boot drive and it wil do the rest.

Phate · 23 Sep 2008 at 00:25

Darryn said:
I used a program called CarbonCopyCloner to do exactly that... Adobe apps dont like it but everything else worked perfectly.

The other option, and probably better, is to re-install OSX on the new drive and then at the final stages of installation it asks if you want to migrate any settings and apps from other machines, point it at your old boot drive and it wil do the rest.

Ahh now theres an idea

Cheers fella, now to decide on hard drives. They never seem quite big enough

Feek · 23 Sep 2008 at 06:15

As Darryn says, CCC doesn't work well with Adobe applications but SuperDuper! works perfectly. I did exactly what you've done using SuperDuper! and it did the job very well. So much so that I bought the full version and it now runs daily (as well as Time Machine).

brassd · 23 Sep 2008 at 11:32

Or just use disk utility. Worked for me.

Phate · 23 Sep 2008 at 11:37

Thanks guys.

Right I currently have 980gb of storage space and like I say...not very much left. I want to double that and have a backup solution so I can actually make use of Time Machine and stop preaching to people about backing up when I don't do it myself!!!!

*gets wallet out*

Spyhop · 23 Sep 2008 at 12:06

Feek said:
As Darryn says, CCC doesn't work well with Adobe applications but SuperDuper! works perfectly. I did exactly what you've done using SuperDuper! and it did the job very well.

Gah, don't respect a silly exclamation point