New HDD - restoring OSX?

hartgeh3

hartgeh3

hartgeh3

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Hi all,

I will be upgrading my hard disk on my MBP on Monday and was wondering whats the best way to reinstall everything to the new disk?

Can I make an image of my drive now but how do I restore it once I put the new hard disk in?

(old 120gb , new 320gb)

I also have Windows XP on it so will need to reinstall that too. I found Winclone can do this, anyone tried it yet?

TIA
 
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You could use an app like SuperDuper or CCC to clone the drive to an external HDD.

Put your new drive in a caddy and transfer the image. Pop it in the MBP and it should be good to go.
 
Be aware that CCC has some issues - If you have Adobe apps installed then they may not work if you use it to clone your disk. I had that problem when I swapped drives and cloned them with CCC and CS3 appeared to work but certain functions failed. I recloned with SuperDuper! and all was fine.

I was so impressed with the trial of SuperDuper! that I bought it and it's now cloning my boot drive on a daily basis.
 
As stated previously, I would highly recommend SuperDuper, its a great little app for backing up and cloning purposes. The SmartUpdate feature alone is worth the asking price.
 
Feek said:
Be aware that CCC has some issues - If you have Adobe apps installed then they may not work if you use it to clone your disk. I had that problem when I swapped drives and cloned them with CCC and CS3 appeared to work but certain functions failed. I recloned with SuperDuper! and all was fine.
I was so impressed with the trial of SuperDuper! that I bought it and it's now cloning my boot drive on a daily basis.
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You used a caddy with the new drive presumably?
 
Not sure what you mean? I opened my Mac Pro, took out one of the drive holders, screwed the new drive in and CCC'd from the old to the new. Once done, removed both so that the new drive was in slot 1.

Tried all the applicatons, had problems with Adobe apps as some people have said there might be. Put the drives back as they were, did the same clone with SuperDuper! and then put the new drive back into slot 1 again. All tested OK.

Played with SuperDuper! for a couple of days and then bought it.
 
will Time machine restore back to original state as ive read some people have issues with some programs not running correctly afterwards.
 
is there not something that you can do with Time machine? Does it not give you an option to restore once you have got to a certain point of the os install?
Not done this myself, but am sure that i seen this the last time i did an install.....
 
Feek said:
Not sure what you mean? I opened my Mac Pro, took out one of the drive holders, screwed the new drive in and CCC'd from the old to the new. Once done, removed both so that the new drive was in slot 1
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I meant, did you plug the new drive into an USB enclosure to effect the transfer.
But that was BEFORE I realised the MBP had 2 drive connections, yes?

So you could have 2 internal drives at once?
 
Ive just done the install.

Backed up my HDD with TimeMachine and Superduper. Removed the old HDD and installed the new WD 320GB. Booted up with the OSX dvd and made a new partition on the HDD and restored with Time Machine.

Can noticed the difference straight away, programs run quicker and is near silent than my old Seagate drive :) Well chuffed.
 
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