Hi all, I'm eagerly anticipating the redesigned MBPs this year (though it looks like I'll have to wait a bit longer for the 17" to come out.
So, while I'm waiting, I'm going to add a 128GB SSD to my Early 2008 17" (have an Ultrabay adapter on order as well for either the HD or the SSD) and have been reading a number of posts about this, but want none of them really are specific enough to what I'm doing, so I wanted to make sure I get this right. Any comments would be welcome.
I'm currently using a 1TB (5400RPM) drive in the MBP. The drive is split 60/40 for Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 64bit. Filevault 2 is currently enabled on the Mac partition.
Since the SSD will be new and will not have the Lion Recovery partition, here's what I'm thinking:
1. Disable Filevault on the current HD (due to issues, apparently, with FileVault working on a secondary drive hosting the user folders).
2. Install the SSD and Ultrabay adapter. Since it's an Early 2008 MBP with PATA ultrabay, I got the pata - sata UB adapter, but I'm unsure if the 1TB will work in the adapter. Any thoughts?
3. Boot from external drive (I have an external USB drive that I can use for emergency booting into Mac OS) and install Lion clean on the SSD. This will set up the Lion Recovery Partition on the SSD.
4. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the Applications and System folders (and others) to the SSD. Also clone the non-user admin account user folder that I have set up.
5. Boot to the SSD and log in with the non-user admin account, then use advanced options on the other accounts to point to the respective user folders (on the HDD).
6. Remove the non-user folders from the HDD.
Now, if that makes sense, then I have two more issues: Boot Camp and FileVault. I would like to move Bootcamp to the SSD as well, but since it's only 120GB, not sure it'll all fit and I may just need to reinstall from scratch (but should be able to still access the NTFS partition on the HDD for additional storage, right)?
I would like to encrypt at least the Mac side with FileVault, but not sure if that's going to be possible with two drives. If not, then it probably doesn't make sense because I would want to encrypt the data drive at least, not the system drive.
Any thoughts on all of this??
Thanks!
JK
So, while I'm waiting, I'm going to add a 128GB SSD to my Early 2008 17" (have an Ultrabay adapter on order as well for either the HD or the SSD) and have been reading a number of posts about this, but want none of them really are specific enough to what I'm doing, so I wanted to make sure I get this right. Any comments would be welcome.
I'm currently using a 1TB (5400RPM) drive in the MBP. The drive is split 60/40 for Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7 64bit. Filevault 2 is currently enabled on the Mac partition.
Since the SSD will be new and will not have the Lion Recovery partition, here's what I'm thinking:
1. Disable Filevault on the current HD (due to issues, apparently, with FileVault working on a secondary drive hosting the user folders).
2. Install the SSD and Ultrabay adapter. Since it's an Early 2008 MBP with PATA ultrabay, I got the pata - sata UB adapter, but I'm unsure if the 1TB will work in the adapter. Any thoughts?
3. Boot from external drive (I have an external USB drive that I can use for emergency booting into Mac OS) and install Lion clean on the SSD. This will set up the Lion Recovery Partition on the SSD.
4. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the Applications and System folders (and others) to the SSD. Also clone the non-user admin account user folder that I have set up.
5. Boot to the SSD and log in with the non-user admin account, then use advanced options on the other accounts to point to the respective user folders (on the HDD).
6. Remove the non-user folders from the HDD.
Now, if that makes sense, then I have two more issues: Boot Camp and FileVault. I would like to move Bootcamp to the SSD as well, but since it's only 120GB, not sure it'll all fit and I may just need to reinstall from scratch (but should be able to still access the NTFS partition on the HDD for additional storage, right)?
I would like to encrypt at least the Mac side with FileVault, but not sure if that's going to be possible with two drives. If not, then it probably doesn't make sense because I would want to encrypt the data drive at least, not the system drive.
Any thoughts on all of this??
Thanks!
JK