New Hard Drive

[devil4life409]

I am buying a new hard dive for my macbook and would like to know the best way to clone my old hard drive onto my new one, also will doing to affect the performance of the new hard drive, is it better to just do a fresh install?

 

[svndmvn]

migrant assistant, superduper or even disk utility if i'm not mistaking, using firewire if it's not the most recent macbook, and if you have a case for your old hard drive of course...or even ethernet if you have another machine to put your old hard drive in..

 

[cantthinkofone]

migration assistant is the easiest way. both computers need firewire i believe.

 

[devil4life409]

ok thats what i thought. I do have a usb external case i can put the old hard drive in. But, my last question in do i have to install os x on the new hard drive or does the install disk have a option to clone from an external hard drive.

 

[svndmvn]

You can clone it all,that's one of Mac OS' advantages over Windows

 

[devil4life409]

ok thanks for the quick response.

 

[consumedsoul]

Which of the 3 options is the best/pristine 'copy' of the original image, or is there no difference?

migrant assistant, superduper or even disk utility if i'm not mistaking, using firewire if it's not the most recent macbook, and if you have a case for your old hard drive of course...or even ethernet if you have another machine to put your old hard drive in..

 

[svndmvn]

people swear by both superduper and migrant assistant, I really don't know which one is better..
I guess superduper for copying from an external HD and Migrant Assistant if you have 2 machines connected through firewire or ethernet