possible issue/problem with swaping HD with MBP

[acrahm]

So i am going to upgrade my HD on my MBP. putting in a 320gb hd, question though, i want to be able to turn on my MBP and it be exactly like it was before the upgrade.

how do i go about doing this?

the original MBP hd is backed up on time machine which is on a external HD, so can i just upload the time machine backup to my newly upgraded HD?

 

[iShater]

Checkout this thread.

 

[3021237]

just did this yesterday following the tips i got here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/538627/
The first time I booted up with the 320 gb it was slow, but it was just indexing. Everything was exactly how I had it before the upgrade.

 

[Steve686]

Use Disk Utility to take a disk image of your HDD. Store it on an external drive.

Swap out drives, then mount the image on you new HDD.

I did this with my MacBook upgrading from 120 to 320, and all is EXACTLY the same. Even down to email settings and iCal events.