Hard Drive swap ?'s used superduper

[safetyobc]

I just upgraded my Macbook Pro 2.2's hard drive from the standard 160 GB 5400 RPM to an Hitatchi 320 GB 7400 RPM.

I used superduper to clone the drive before the swap. Used iFixit for instructions on how to change (this was my very first HDD swap).

I booted the computer up and it works 100% perfect. Quite a bit more snappy now too!

This may be a dumb questions being how it is working fine, but do I need to do anything else? I kept my old drive, gonna use it as a backup but it seems like this was too easy. There has to be more to it right?

Thanks,

Matt

 

[eman]

No, that's it.

 

[safetyobc]

WOW! I should have done this years ago. I was waiting on Apple Care to run out (which it did in November). Good thing I did I guess because the logic board went out 2 months before Apple Care ended.

I have to say, Apple Care was great. They replaced my logic board, optical drive and battery. I didn't know my optical drive was faulty and I couldn't believe they gave me a new battery. My old battery wouldn't hold a 10 minute charge. Pretty awesome!

Also, does my time machine need to be started over? Or will it pick up from where it left off?

Thanks!

 

[MacDawg]

Pretty simple procedure
I use Carbon Copy Cloner, but the process and results are the same

Enjoy your new snappier drive

 

[safetyobc]

I tried CCC.

I wanted to make sure the drive would boot BEFORE I made the switch. i couldn't get it to boot with CCC. SuperDuper booted the external with no problem.

It was probably something I did wrong, but I'm not sure what it was.

 

[safetyobc]

Not really on topic but is it true that this model MBP (2.2 GHz) only can use 3GB of RAM? So I could buy 1, 2 GB stick and use with the other 1GB stick that would be in the machine....correct? Or would 2, 2GB sticks be better?

Thanks,

Matt