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Install OSX onto new SSD..Help :)

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g33

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Feb 23, 2008
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Ive got a 13" MBP and a 120GB Vertex 2E with the optibay option where im going to put the factory HDD in the optibay.

First of all im not worried about retaining any information on the drives so it 'should' be a straightforward task.

Once all the components are in place do i just pop in the the OSX cd that came with my mac into an external optical drive and reinstall the OS?

OR

Install the SSD first, keep the optical drive in place and then boot it up with the setup disk that came with the mac. I dont have an external ODD caddie at present (not sure if i need one).

Thanks in advance
 
Put both drives in it and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the HD to the SSD (assuming you have less than 120GB of data). After that you can erase the HD with Disk Utility
 
simsaladimbamba said:
You can do it either way, via an external USB ODD or HDD (that's how I do it, I imaged my DVD to an external HDD partition), or the internal HDD. It's up to you.
The only thing you need to do, is format the SSD:
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.ph...out.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat.htm
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thanks. link is dead though!

do you think that it will be ok to install both Win 7 and OSX onto the SSD as ive read issues with booting from the Optibay - if i installed Win 7 there

to make things simpler for me right now ill install the SSD and retain the ODD. The OSX disk will give me the option to format it right?....like how windows would. Then it would go about installing the OS?
 
g33 said:
thanks. link is dead though!

do you think that it will be ok to install both Win 7 and OSX onto the SSD as ive read issues with booting from the Optibay - if i installed Win 7 there

to make things simpler for me right now ill install the SSD and retain the ODD. The OSX disk will give me the option to format it right?....like how windows would. Then it would go about installing the OS?
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Yeah, it's recommended to install Windows on the drive that is in the hard drive slot.

Yes, you can format it with the disk as well. Just launch Disk Utility from Menu bar. Then just click install and let it do its magics
 
g33 said:
thanks. link is dead though!

do you think that it will be ok to install both Win 7 and OSX onto the SSD as ive read issues with booting from the Optibay - if i installed Win 7 there

to make things simpler for me right now ill install the SSD and retain the ODD. The OSX disk will give me the option to format it right?....like how windows would. Then it would go about installing the OS?
Click to expand...

Links again, they were combined, as I missed pressing enter and they looked like this in the address bar of your browser:
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat.htm


http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810
http://macs.about.com/od/applications/ss/diskutilformat.htm
 
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