ssd installation and file transfering

I just installed my owc ssd yesterday.

I made sure i had a fresh time machine backup.

Then i hooked up the ssd using a usb enclosure and used carbon copy cloner to clone the old internal drive to the new ssd. It took a few hours to do.

Then i booted from the ssd while still in the usb enclosure to make sure it worked.

Then i installed it physically in the machine. At first booting seemed slow then i read that you need to go into the preferences and then into the system disk and click on the drive and reboot and that solved that issue.

The ifixit website has good instructions on how to physically install the drive if you need.

If you have a more specific question please ask.

 

Okay, you ready? here are the steps.

Place notebook with bottom facing you, and the open hatch facing you
Remove the 10 screws on the bottom
locate HDD (bottom left corner)
remove the 2 screws on a black plastic bar on the top of the HDD
pull out the HDD
remove the 4 screws located on the side of the HDD
put those screws into the SSD
snap in the SSD
put the black bar back
put bottom of notebook back on

10-15 min. job total.

I then booted up from DVD, formatted the SSD, loaded OSX onto it, fresh install ready to go... you can also load up from time machine instead of fresh install... it's super super easy.