SSD question

Best way is to fresh install and then restore using Migration Assistant.

 

^ this...or use time machine. You should really buy an external drive as it is essential to back up your computer.

 

Always backup. Especially if you're going to be messing around with your hard drive.

It doesn't take much to make a mistake and format the wrong drive(admittedly, I had been drinking). But besides that, if something were to go wrong with your original hard drive while you were doing the swap, you'd lose all of your data.

External hard drives aren't exactly expensive. Just pick one up and setup time machine, or use CarbonCopyCloner and create an image of your hard drive.

 

You'll need to restore the recovery partition to a USB drive first.

 

Nvm

 

how it can be done ?

 

SSD question

Hi Guys, new here and have a question about SSDs, specifically Samsung 830 256gb vs. 512gb. I use an external FW Hard Drive, that has all of my TM back-ups and iTunes is ran directly from it as well. I have the factory 500gb HDD for my MBP (early 2011). I am hearing sooo much talk about ppl upgrading to SSDs because they are so much faster than a factory 500HDD. Ok now onto the Q's, if I am only using 50gb of my 500gbHDD, would it be safe to use a 256gb SSD? I am not a pro with installing MAC products, would Apple install the Samsung hard drive?

Thanks in advance!! I love this forum!!!!!!

 

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

 

Do you happen to have a Home Depot nearby?

 

Or a Sears or heck, even a Wal-Mart?

Maybe a Radio Shack?

 

You're surely more patient than I.

 

Me, too.

If it ain't instant gratification, its too slow, lol.

 

That may be true, but if I had just plunked down a nice chunk of dough on a new MBP I would be weary of taking pliers to a screw designed for a T6 driver. Few things have the long term potential of messing your hardware up like using wrong tools to open it up. I once bought a dead laptop for parts and I don't know what the previous owner used to open it, but half the screws on the back cover were stripped and the RAM slot cover (was a pre-unibody model, they had a small cover over RAM slots, took 3 screws to take it off) had the whole section where the screws go sawed off! If you might be opening it more than once, proper tools are the way to go.

 

Well, gee, what makes you think JTyler has a pair of pliers handy?