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Moving to a larger drive

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Maury

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I'm going to upgrade my wife's white MB from the original 120 to a 500. I have the drive and a 500 MB USB carrier for it.

I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to move things over to the new drive so I can then simply swap it out.

I know I can use SuperDuper and such, but are there even easier solutions in the era of Lion I should consider?
 
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GGJstudios

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Maury said:
I'm going to upgrade my wife's white MB from the original 120 to a 500. I have the drive and a 500 MB USB carrier for it.

I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to move things over to the new drive so I can then simply swap it out.

I know I can use SuperDuper and such, but are there even easier solutions in the era of Lion I should consider?
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Clone the internal drive to the external, using Carbon Copy Cloner. Then swap the drives and boot up from the new internal drive.
 
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minifridge1138

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Even in the era of Lion, very few things are simpler than Carbon Copy Cloner.

I've known some people that clone drives just using Disk Utility. I don't think it's easier than CCC.
 
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Maury

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...and that's just what I did, perfectly! Took a while to copy over the 110 GB, but the swap and everything else was a snap.

Thanks guys!
 
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