Following a report of someone going to a bigger Seagate in their MBP, I decided to replace my 5400RPM 120GB Fujitsu. Fujitsu was reportedly the coolest drive, so that is what I chose.
The upgrade process was a little tedious, and I shall cover it here.
First, I booted into XP (Boot camp). I connected via network to another system, mounted as disk, and then used Windows Backup to backup the entire system, which gets goodies like Registry. It is known as an ASR(Automated System Recovery) backup. Since I had no floppy, that step is skipped. (XP Pro is required for non-floppy use).
I then removed the old drive, and put it in a PowerMac (or Mac Pro). Obviously, it doesn't fit, but the connectors are the same. I used Disk Utility to create an image of the Mac partition.
I then put the new drive in the MBP, but did not close it up. Installed OS X 10.5.4. Ran Boot Camp, installed XP Pro from disc. This time, I gave it more space, and used NTFS instead of FAT32. (This is why I didn't use Winclone.) Once XP was running, I connected over network to my ASR backup, and restored.
Now I removed the new drive, and placed it in the PowerMac(or Mac Pro). The first time I tried to use Disk Utility to restore the system, it said it would take 6 days. I cancelled, and did the 'Scan Image for Restore" option, which took 20 minutes or so. Then I tried restore again, and it said it was Copying Blocks, and would take 20 minutes.
Done.
In hindsight, I could have probably restored the Mac system first in the PowerMac, and then done Boot Camp afterwards. But I was concerned about XP Restore trashing the OS X, which didn't happen. But I didn't want to do things twice.
Also, when Disk Utility does Copy Blocks restore, it doesn't seem to defragment. But it does go a lot faster.
After a quick iDefrag in Metadata(+ B-Tree) mode, my MBP has a lot more space, and boots in about 5.5 gears, plus a couple seconds of Blue before an instant desktop. Too bad my 2006MBP doesn't do SATA 3.0Gbps, or I'd be going even faster!
The upgrade process was a little tedious, and I shall cover it here.
First, I booted into XP (Boot camp). I connected via network to another system, mounted as disk, and then used Windows Backup to backup the entire system, which gets goodies like Registry. It is known as an ASR(Automated System Recovery) backup. Since I had no floppy, that step is skipped. (XP Pro is required for non-floppy use).
I then removed the old drive, and put it in a PowerMac (or Mac Pro). Obviously, it doesn't fit, but the connectors are the same. I used Disk Utility to create an image of the Mac partition.
I then put the new drive in the MBP, but did not close it up. Installed OS X 10.5.4. Ran Boot Camp, installed XP Pro from disc. This time, I gave it more space, and used NTFS instead of FAT32. (This is why I didn't use Winclone.) Once XP was running, I connected over network to my ASR backup, and restored.
Now I removed the new drive, and placed it in the PowerMac(or Mac Pro). The first time I tried to use Disk Utility to restore the system, it said it would take 6 days. I cancelled, and did the 'Scan Image for Restore" option, which took 20 minutes or so. Then I tried restore again, and it said it was Copying Blocks, and would take 20 minutes.
Done.
In hindsight, I could have probably restored the Mac system first in the PowerMac, and then done Boot Camp afterwards. But I was concerned about XP Restore trashing the OS X, which didn't happen. But I didn't want to do things twice.
Also, when Disk Utility does Copy Blocks restore, it doesn't seem to defragment. But it does go a lot faster.
After a quick iDefrag in Metadata(+ B-Tree) mode, my MBP has a lot more space, and boots in about 5.5 gears, plus a couple seconds of Blue before an instant desktop. Too bad my 2006MBP doesn't do SATA 3.0Gbps, or I'd be going even faster!