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Hard Drive Replacement Guidance

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Macnificant

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Feb 26, 2008
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I just got a new Hd today (Hitachi Travelstar 500GB) and looking for info on replacing it myself.

I hear it isnt to hard to do it yourself.

I have a macbook purchased on release from March 2008.

I am running Snow Leopard but cant find the CD which I purchased.

I was wondering if you can "clone" existing HD without having the Snow Leopard CD.

Is there a site with set by set instructions?

Do I need to purchased SuperDuper software?
 
this may be a stupid question but an I clone existing internal using CCC to my external HD then put in the new HD into my macbook and copy the cloned HD from external HD to the new internal HD?
 
Macnificant said:
this may be a stupid question but an I clone existing internal using CCC to my external HD then put in the new HD into my macbook and copy the cloned HD from external HD to the new internal HD?
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Yes you can. See this tutorial for good step by step.

Also, the free/trial version of SuperDuper will perform the clone that is needed for a hard drive upgrade.
 
GfulDedFan said:
Yes you can. See this tutorial for good step by step.

Also, the free/trial version of SuperDuper will perform the clone that is needed for a hard drive upgrade.
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I followed the above instructions but after starting up with new HD the macbook isnt reading the new hard drive I think? Finder is only showing idisk and wd passport external HD?

Anyone help?
 
My guess is that you haven't seated the hard drive properly. I would open your MacBook once again and check that the drive is pushed in all the way.
 
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