hard drive help

[Joelio]

I'm thinking of replacing the hd on my 2.2 ghz 2 gb Ram 120 gb MBP. I know how to do it, that's not a problem, but how do I transfer everything? I have everything backed up on time mahine but i'm not sure if that will work. Any help woul be great. Thanks!

 

[andrewdale]

I'm thinking of replacing the hd on my 2.2 ghz 2 gb Ram 120 gb MBP. I know how to do it, that's not a problem, but how do I transfer everything? I have everything backed up on time mahine but i'm not sure if that will work. Any help woul be great. Thanks!

I've seen this asked 100 times, but have never done it myself. However, I can probably say what others will say.

Carbon Copy Cloner.

Get an external enclosure to put the new HDD in, make a CCC mirror of it, and that way when you put the new drive into your MBP, it'll just boot right on up.

I hope I'm saying this correctly!

 

[Neil321]

Not forgetting to try booting from the new drive in the enclosure first in case it's DOA it'll be a waste of time putting it in if it is

 

[andrewdale]

Not forgetting to boot from the new drive in the enclosure first in case it's DOA it'll be a waste of putting it in if it is

Oh, yeah. I forgot about that step!

 

[Mr. Clean]

I just asked the same question yesterday and was told that you can do it with Time Machine. I also looked it up on Google and found a site that walks you through it step by step. Take a look for your self.

Mr. Clean

http://duncandavidson.com/2008/01/restoring-from-time-machine.html

 

[Snowbound]

I imagine that it can't be much different than switching to a new laptop. I've done that and it worked fine transferring my files via time machine. It was fairly intuitive, I doubt you'll have a problem.

 

[iShater]

I imagine that it can't be much different than switching to a new laptop. I've done that and it worked fine transferring my files via time machine. It was fairly intuitive, I doubt you'll have a problem.

The difference is that you are moving EVERYTHING including system files, moving to a new laptop does not do that.