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upgrading hard drive, have questions

0makol16

0makol16

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Oct 16, 2008
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Diamond Bar, California
Hi there, I'm planning on upgrading my hard drive to a 320gb from Western Digital from the default 160gb that came with my MacBook. I have some programs on my current hard drive that use cd keys that can be only used x amount of times and some them are used up, for example Microsoft Office 2008 can only be installed on 3 computers and its currently on 3 computer (mine, my dad's, and my brothers) I don't have a Time Machine or an external hard drive to back up all my files and programs to and I don't want to spend money on stuff for that. What should I do? Sorry if this sounds confusing if you want me to explain more I can.
 
Buying a cheap external enclosure will allow you to clone the drive with SuperDuper and allow you to store your important data on the old drive.

Data is priceless, don't cheap out by not backing up.
 
0makol16 said:
oh wow, it is way cheaper. :eek:
But would putting my old hard drive in the enclosure and the new one in my macbook work since the old one will still have mac os x on it? :confused:
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1) Put the new drive in the enclosure
2) Clone your old hard drive to the new drive
3) Install the new drive
4) Place the old drive in the enclosure and format it and use as a regular external (Optional).
5) Enjoy!
 
If you leave Mac OSX on it, you can still boot into it if you wanted to. If you saved it for a few months, you could boot back into it later and see what your computer was like then :p
 
pdjudd said:
1) Put the new drive in the enclosure
2) Clone your old hard drive to the new drive
3) Install the new drive
4) Place the old drive in the enclosure and format it and use as a regular external (Optional).
5) Enjoy!
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Ok I think I will do this and use that SuperDuper thing to clone my hard drive. Thank you to everyone that helped!
 
Just to add, I upgraded the HD inside my macbook and I used SuperDuper. Its really easy to swap the hard drives and the free version of Superduper worked perectly (and I'm not very experienced with computers). You'll be suprised at how simple the whole process is (unlike Time machine, install disks, migration assistant etc etc.)

john
 
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