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Seagate Momentus XT Upgrade

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sojha

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Oct 12, 2011
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Hey everyone,

I have a Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive that's coming in the next few days to replace my original 120GB 5400RPM drive on a Mid-2007 MacBook. I've never done a fresh hard drive install before, so can someone tell me what exactly needs to be done? I'm not too interested in cloning my HDD using SuperDuper! or anything. I just want to fresh install Lion and drag-drop my files.


My question is- how do I even fresh-install Lion on a brand new HDD/SSD?

Thanks
 
MasterMacBook said:
Insert the lion disc/USB with the OSX on it and boot onto that drive. I know for an optical disc you hold down "C".

Then follow on screen from there.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a Lion disk, because I downloaded it from the App Store. Any suggestions?
 
Book a genius bar appointment and the genius will do it for you for free im pretty sure, just explain the situation I think :) unless you can somehow copy the lion OSX onto a USB by itself. Or CarbonCopyCloner does it all for you I think.

See what everybody else posts though, I don't know much to be honest.
 
-you may have to download lion again (you can do this with no charge as you have already bought before)...then after it downloads don't continue... read this "how to make a lion dvd"

http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/lion-clean-install-guide/

you could use carbon copy or superduper to clone your disk,but as your installing to new ssd it's best to do a clean install (also you may want to zero erase new disk first...as per my reading of installing osx to a ssd)...i know for myself...when i first installed a ssd to my macbook i just did a clone using carbon copy...it worked but at times i would get ssd lagg...so after some reading i did a zero erase and then clean install...no i have zero ssd lagg,and my macbook it unreal fast!
 
sojha said:
Hey everyone,

I have a Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive that's coming in the next few days to replace my original 120GB 5400RPM drive on a Mid-2007 MacBook. I've never done a fresh hard drive install before, so can someone tell me what exactly needs to be done? I'm not too interested in cloning my HDD using SuperDuper! or anything. I just want to fresh install Lion and drag-drop my files.


My question is- how do I even fresh-install Lion on a brand new HDD/SSD?

Thanks
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Hi

I did the same install method a few months back.

The first thing you are going to need is a hard drive caddy, to format your new drive and then later to copy your old files.

I installed from my snow leopard disk and then re-downloaded Lion from the app store.

You can then copy all of your data from your old hard drive, via the usb caddy.

Took about 3 hours all in, depending on download speeds etc.

I bought a seagate momentus xt 500gb and notice a huge speed upgrade from my original 5400 disc, so your 750 should fly.

cheers

thebassmanmac
 
ELMI0001 said:
I also bought the 500 hybrid but I don't see the "huge" speed upgrade. I think a modest speed upgrade would be the best way to describe it.
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My account accumulated so much stuff since the cube times, that it is horribly slow to login with a standard hard disk.

Launching the frequently used applications is also very fast.

This is what most people look for in an SSD: boot, login, and launch.

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If you have Lion in the current drive, you can use Lion Recovery Disk Assistant (a download from Apple), to create a USB boot stick that can reinstall Lion (using the internet).
 
Wasn't there a buttload of problems with the Momentus hard drives when it first came out? Has this issue been fixed with the hard drive locking and failures?
 
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