Moving data from one hard drive to another?

[GenosTech]

Hello. I'm new to the forums here. I'm planning to upgrade my hard drive from the standard 250 GB that came with my Macbook Pro, to a 750GB. I just need more storage. But I'm curious, I have some stuff on my current hard drive that I will need to move to my new hard drive. How do I go about doing that? I have a lot of apps, movies, and photos. Thank you! - Geno

 

[johnnnw]

Two very easy ways.

Use Carbon Copy Cloner, it makes an exact copy of the drive and it will look the exact same as before.

Or use a Time Machine backup. Do a backup to an external drive, when you replace the mac drive with the new one, hold Command + R and select the "Restore from Time Machine Backup" from the utility.

That will copy all your applications, files, etc.

 

[GenosTech]

That works with internal hard drives? How do I plug the other hard drive into while my current one is in my Macbook?

 

[johnnnw]

That works with internal hard drives? How do I plug the other hard drive into while my current one is in my Macbook?

Hard drive enclosure.

They are USB and can be had for about 15$

I used mine for that and end up using it a lot more now as I can use my old hard drive to backup files onto

 

[justperry]

A SATA to USB Adapter is even cheaper.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=m570.l3201&_nkw=Sata+to+usb&_sacat=0

 

[GenosTech]

Thanks guys! Appreciate it.