New HDD - restoring OSX?

hartgeh3 · 30 Aug 2008 at 21:05

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

hartgeh3 · 31 Aug 2008 at 11:46

Can you boot with the Leopard disk with a empty hard drive and restore that way? will check out superduper

hartgeh3 · 31 Aug 2008 at 22:50

whats a decent/cheap caddy?

hartgeh3 · 1 Sep 2008 at 22:43

will Time machine restore back to original state as ive read some people have issues with some programs not running correctly afterwards.

hartgeh3 · 5 Sep 2008 at 23:23

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.