New HD for my Macbook Pro

[aussie_geek]

I am thinking of picking up one of the HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 200 GB hd's for my MacBook Pro. Getting HD's installed on PowerBooks was easy - just a swap out.

With the new Intels there is that 200MB EFI partition. Can I just swap the HD out and install Leopard straight on from the DVD? Does Leopard have the efi for MacBook Pro's onboard.

Another thing I was thinking of was to get an external firewire case and make a clone of the boot drive and then just swap it in.

What are my options?


aussie_geek

 

[TheStu]

I am thinking of picking up one of the HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 200 GB hd's for my MacBook Pro. Getting HD's installed on PowerBooks was easy - just a swap out.

With the new Intels there is that 200MB EFI partition. Can I just swap the HD out and install Leopard straight on from the DVD? Does Leopard have the efi for MacBook Pro's onboard.

Another thing I was thinking of was to get an external firewire case and make a clone of the boot drive and then just swap it in.

What are my options?


aussie_geek

I would go for option 2, leaves you with a nice bus powered external storage solution.

 

[dukebound85]

yea you should be able to pretty easily. i just installed tiger on my hd upgrade from dvd. i would suspect you could from leopard as well

 

[CarlosG]

Instructions for drive swap that I followed:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2119581,00.asp

I have just install a Momentus 7200 200GB drive in my MacBook Pro (rev a) and the difference is noticeable.