Macbook Pro Hard Drive

[salar101]

I have a macbook pro from early 2008 and I am trying to upgrade the hard drive. What is the best way to transfer my data? say for example my iphoto library i want it to be exactly the same way as it is right now as far as events or itunes...! if I use time machine to get a back up of my current hard drive can I restore it to the new hard drive?

 

[GGJstudios]

... if I use time machine to get a back up of my current hard drive can I restore it to the new hard drive?

Yes.

 

[boshii]

the easiest way for me was to clone the drive in disk utility.

if you have an external, you can do this.

 

[salar101]

when i hit restore does my stuff gets deleted from my old computer?

 

[boshii]

when i hit restore does my stuff gets deleted from my old computer?

no it will just clone it to the new drive. your old hdd will remain the same.

 

[sjinsjca]

I've replaced several drives on PowerBooks and MacBook Pros (including my own). In each case, restoring from Time Machine worked beautifully and resulted in a system that seemed virtually unchanged, just more capacious and faster.

 

[salar101]

would you mind explain briefly how do I do it with time machine? i have a spare external hard drive.

 

[Zyniker]

Use CarbonCopyCloner and an external hard drive.

Internal hard drive >> external hard drive >> new internal hard drive (after upgrade)

would you mind explain briefly how do I do it with time machine? i have a spare external hard drive.

With time machine, you need two things: 1) the external hard drive and 2) an OS X (Leopard or later) install DVD.

1. Attach the external hard drive.
2. Use the Time Machine panel in System Preferences to backup to the external hard drive.
3. Upgrade your internal hard drive (hardware step).
4. Insert the OS X install DVD and boot from it.
5. Under "Utilities" (I believe the menu item is called), select the Time Machine option.
6. Restore.

 

[GXT]

Time Machine is the Easiest and Fastest Way to Go...

Time Machine is by far the best way to do a disk upgrade if you are using Snow Leopard.

The Snow Leopard DVD allows you to "boot". Once there you can use Disk Utilities to format the raw drive and then Time Machine to restore to a backup point.

I upgraded and restored 100GB + in just under two hours!

The big gotcha is the small screws on the drive carrier (Macbook).