My new SSD (Samsung Evo 750GB) is on the way and I was wondering if there is a general consensus of the best options, or a few "can't go wrong" options for copying the drive 1 to 1.
My system : Early 2011 MBP 17" 8gb RAM 7200rpm HD 500GB
The change = 500GB Hitachi 7200rpm HD ---> 750GB Samsung Evo SSD
OSX
I am aware of Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper for the OSX side of things, not sure which is best but neither are free and cost £20-£30. I think CCC might take care of the recovery partition clone but not sure
Free
Are there any free options?
Windows
I am not aware of anything that does the whole drive including windows and all, so I suspect I will need a windows cloner as well. If this is expensive I may just clone the OSX side and setup bootcamp again from the disk. I'm not sure if this will confuse OSX as, as far as the cloned OSX partition is concerned the windows partition will still be there. Will this be a problem?
Anything I missed?
Is there anything that I have not mentioned that could be a problem or that I need to do?
My system : Early 2011 MBP 17" 8gb RAM 7200rpm HD 500GB
The change = 500GB Hitachi 7200rpm HD ---> 750GB Samsung Evo SSD
OSX
I am aware of Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper for the OSX side of things, not sure which is best but neither are free and cost £20-£30. I think CCC might take care of the recovery partition clone but not sure
Free
Are there any free options?
Windows
I am not aware of anything that does the whole drive including windows and all, so I suspect I will need a windows cloner as well. If this is expensive I may just clone the OSX side and setup bootcamp again from the disk. I'm not sure if this will confuse OSX as, as far as the cloned OSX partition is concerned the windows partition will still be there. Will this be a problem?
Anything I missed?
Is there anything that I have not mentioned that could be a problem or that I need to do?
