Time Machine & Carbon Copy Cloner Questions

[gregrose]

Hey guys, im very confused on what I should do here, need some advice, because im just not finding my answers on the internet.

Im looking to upgrade my HD in my mbp13inch and I want to exactly replicate my old HD to my new one.

So what im trying to figure out is. lets say I freshly install my new HD with my mbp cd & all, would TM completely clone my old HD onto the new one, or will I have to reinstall all programs i had from my old HD?

And with CCC im confused on how I clone over to the new HD, can I do the fresh install of my OS, then plug in my external HD & will it clone over, or do i have to boot from the external HD, very confused, i dont want to mess anything up.

I need an exact replicate of my old HD.

Thanks

 

[msavwah]

You can restore from time machine to new hd. You boot from the install cd, then do the restore.

As for ccc, I'm curious about that myself.

 

[Drewsky87]

Use TM. Install the HDD, install OS X, it should give you an option to restore from a TM backup.

 

[gregrose]

ah shoot so sorry guys, i ment to post this in MBP forums, sorry. thanks though