Replacing hard drive. quick question

[bep207]

I bought a 250gb hard drive for my MBP. I am replacing the 80gb hard drive that came with my MBP as it is nearly full.

I want to be able to have my computer exactly like it is now, but with about 150gb of free space.

I have a USB enclosure that will fit the drive that is currently in my MBP. After I get the new, bigger drive in the computer. What do I do to copy my old drive onto the new one?

THanks
Blake

 

[jsw]

Carbon Copy Cloner is free and works really well. There are other apps as well.

I recommend putting the new drive in the enclosure, cloning it, booting from it to test it, then swapping them.

 

[bep207]

great idea
thanks


to boot from it, i just restart holding T right?

 

[jsw]

great idea
thanks


to boot from it, i just restart holding T right?

Nah, that puts it into Firewire target mode. There's a key combo I forget, but you can always use System Preferences...->Startup Disk to choose the external and then reboot.

 

[solvs]

You could hold down Option while booting, but I don't know if it'll boot from USB.

CCC usually works perfectly for me though.

 

[PlaceofDis]

You could hold down Option while booting, but I don't know if it'll boot from USB.

CCC usually works perfectly for me though.

any of the intel macs can boot from USB without a problem. and CCC is great and so is SuperDuper!