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Just bought new macbook, best way to clone?

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yalag

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I just a bought a new macbook pro and upgrading from my old macbook pro. This one has more ram and faster cpu. What is the best way to clone everything over? I don't want to use TM because I've heard stories that it sometimes does not copy everything over.

I need an exact copy of everything in the disk on the new disk. Thank you!
 
yalag said:
I just a bought a new macbook pro and upgrading from my old macbook pro. This one has more ram and faster cpu. What is the best way to clone everything over? I don't want to use TM because I've heard stories that it sometimes does not copy everything over.

I need an exact copy of everything in the disk on the new disk. Thank you!
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Carbon Copy Cloner creates a bootable clone.
 
I actually can't afford to buy an 500Gb external drive right now nor do I have time machine. How can I use ccc to do this? Am I better of buying a firewire cable? Does target mode still works in recent macbooks?
 
yalag said:
I actually can't afford to buy an 500Gb external drive right now nor do I have time machine. How can I use ccc to do this? Am I better of buying a firewire cable? Does target mode still works in recent macbooks?
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yes target mode still works, the link ggj posted has all the infos regarding cc and migration assistant, you need a firewire cable to do target disc mode (if you want to) and i would borrow an external hd from a friend or something for a day and give it back if you cant afford one.
 
maril1111 said:
yes target mode still works, the link ggj posted has all the infos regarding cc and migration assistant, you need a firewire cable to do target disc mode (if you want to) and i would borrow an external hd from a friend or something for a day and give it back if you cant afford one.
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but I thought if I have a firewire cable I can connect directly between two macs and not need a disk?
 
yalag said:
but I thought if I have a firewire cable I can connect directly between two macs and not need a disk?
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i thought you wanted to clone it to the external hd, my mistake, yes than a firewire cable is all you need (apart from having a big enough harddrive in your new computer to fit everything you want).
 
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