Macbook Pro Hard Drive Swap

[MADADAM]

I Currently Have A First Generation Macbook Pro And Wanted To Swap Out My Maxed Out Hard Drive What Are The Steps To Backup Everything On To My New Hard Drive And Any Preferences On Certain Hard Drives That Are Out There.

 

[michaelsviews]

I Currently Have A First Generation Macbook Pro And Wanted To Swap Out My Maxed Out Hard Drive What Are The Steps To Backup Everything On To My New Hard Drive And Any Preferences On Certain Hard Drives That Are Out There.

If you give http://www.macsales.com
you should get some good idea's of pricing and such, as far as backup I myself am a little fuzzy on that myself so I wont attempt to guess at that one .

BOL

 

[Neil321]

I Currently Have A First Generation Macbook Pro And Wanted To Swap Out My Maxed Out Hard Drive What Are The Steps To Backup Everything On To My New Hard Drive And Any Preferences On Certain Hard Drives That Are Out There.

1.)Buy a 2.5 enclosure

2.)put new drive in it

3.)clone over OS using http://www.shirt-pocket.com/ if you have a windows partition
as well your'll need http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/

4.)boot from external

5.)if all ok swap drives by using the guides found at http://www.ifixit.com/


If your not doing rendering then id go for a 5300 the largest one
currently available is the WD scorpio 320GB its a great drive

Not sure why michaelsviews gave a link to selling your pro

 

[Zawamura]

ifixit.com has a great guide on how to take your mbp apart.

 

[MADADAM]

Thanx Guys