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
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Moving data from one hard drive to another?
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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.
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.
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
A SATA to USB Adapter is even cheaper.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=m570.l3201&_nkw=Sata+to+usb&_sacat=0
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=m570.l3201&_nkw=Sata+to+usb&_sacat=0