HDD upgrades

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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

 

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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!

 

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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

 

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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*