Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

chrono1081

macrumors G3
Original poster
Jan 26, 2008
8,923
6,640
Isla Nublar
Hi guys.

Normally Id just try what I'm about to mention but since I wont be able to hook my mac up to an internet connection for at least 5 months or so I wanna ask before I do this since I have software that would need reactivated if this doesnt work:


I need to upgrade my MBP's harddrive and on my machine now I have my bootcamp partition and my mac partition. My question is if I go into harddrive utility and create an image of the entire drive when I put that image back on my new drive will it recognize the new space?

If that wasn't clear here is what I mean:

I have the following:
Mac OSX ->150GB
Windows XP ->30GB

New drive would be 500GB
Would I get the following?
Mac OSX->150GB
Windows XP->30GB
New Mac Partition->300GB

From my understanding with the mac partition I can combine them and give OSX more space. Is this correct?
 
Here is what I would do if it was me...

Use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OSX partition

Use WinClone to clone the Windows partition

Install the new HD

Restore the OSX clone to a single OSX partition on the new HD

Use BootCamp to repartition the drive

Restore the Windows clone to the BootCamp partition

Woof, Woof - Dawg
pawprint.gif
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.