i am about to use carbon copy cloner to put all of the stuff from my old HD to my new HD, what should i have my new HD formatted as?? does it matter? right now i have it formatted as mac os extended (journaled)... will this work?
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what should i format new hard drive as?
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HFS+ (Hierarchical File System, a.k.a. Mac OS Extended)
- Read/Write HFS+ from native Mac OS X
- Required for Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! backups of Mac internal hard drive.
- To Read/Write HFS+ from Windows, Install MacDrive
- To Read HFS+ (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer
- Maximum file size: 8EiB
- Maximum volume size: 8EiB
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haha thanks
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also, i just reformatted the new drive and didn't do anything else to it...should i have lion on it first before cloning??
i had lion on it, but reformatted it now because i was clinging fresh, so maybe its still on there