[Ti] Need new HD for my TiBook (with a new question)

Barbara Needham barbneed at mac.com
Sat Jan 27 16:49:55 PST 2007


Peter Sealy wrote:
> 
> On Sun 28 Jan,, at 9:02 AM, David DelMonte wrote:
> 
>> Henry, the best place to get step by step instructions is 
>> http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Henry Kalir wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with that! Here's an added question:
>>>
>>> I bought a 100 GB (5400) HD for my Ti 1GHz to replace the 60 GB on it .
>>>
>>> My question: Can someone who has ALREADY DONE IT please run a step by 
>>> step instruction post as to how I would transfer the contents of the 
>>> current 60 GB HD to the 100GB HD?
>>>
>>> I do have a 250 GB firewire HD that I can use as an interim repository.
>>>
>>> Best and TIA
>>>
>>> Henry
>>>
> 
> snip
> 
> 
> David, those ifixit guides are really helpful and worth bookmarking. But 
> I think that Henry is asking how does he transfer his data from his 60 
> gb HD [to be discarded] to the new 100 gb HD [to be installed in the PB].
> 
> The easiest way I believe would be to just clone the current 60 gb HD 
> onto the 250 gb FW HD using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner or some 
> other similar app, boot from the FW HD just to make sure all is OK, then 
> swap the 60 gb HD with the new 100 gb HD [with the help of the guide 
> mentioned by David], boot again from the FW HD, format the new 100 gb 
> HD, then clone the entire system back from the ext FW HD to the new 100 
> gb. That has the added advantage of defragmenting the system on the new 
> 100 gb HD.

Is it possible to clone a HD just using disk utility? I COPIED my whole 
laptop to a desktop using disk utility and it was pretty easy but I 
didn't have to depend on it to boot a laptop...
-- 
Barbara Needham


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