Installing A New HD While Saving Everything On The Current One (10.4.11)

[ggm1960]

I'd like to install a bigger/faster hard drive into my older MBP. Is there a way to create a backup that quickly gets me back to where I was? This machine is running 10.4.11 so I don't have Time Machine.

 

[r.j.s]

Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper will make an exact copy of the drive.

Here's the process:

1. Clone internal to external

2. Install new drive and boot from external

3. Clone back to new internal

 

[Zyniker]

I'd like to install a bigger/faster hard drive into my older MBP. Is there a way to create a backup that quickly gets me back to where I was? This machine is running 10.4.11 so I don't have Time Machine.

Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich Software.

 

[angemon89]

Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper will make an exact copy of the drive.

Here's the process:

1. Clone internal to external

2. Install new drive and boot from external

3. Clone back to new internal

Wait, wah? Isn't the process just:

1. Clone internal to external

2. Install

3. Badabing badaboom, done

??

 

[r.j.s]

Wait, wah? Isn't the process just:

1. Clone internal to external

2. Install

3. Badabing badaboom, done

??

Yes, if the new internal is the external.

 

[angemon89]

Yes, if the new internal is the external.

Oh, haha. Now I see what you're saying. You're talking about cloning to an external that isn't directly the 2.5" drive you're going to install.

OP, if you can get your hands on an enclosure to directly copy from 2.5" hard drive to 2.5" hard drive, the process will be a lot easier and faster.

 

[ggm1960]

Oh, haha. Now I see what you're saying. You're talking about cloning to an external that isn't directly the 2.5" drive you're going to install.

OP, if you can get your hands on an enclosure to directly copy from 2.5" hard drive to 2.5" hard drive, the process will be a lot easier and faster.

That's possible. I downloaded SuperDuper and it gives instructions for doing it over my network which may be what I want to try.

Let me expand my initial question a little to say that I also have a copy of Boot Camp that I'd like to put on that computer after swapping the drives and install WinXP. As long as my restore process doesn't "demand" to literally clone to the new drive that shouldn't be a problem either yes?