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Upgrading harddrive, how to transfer applications?

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Lexraider1

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Looks like I'll be doing some work on my early 2008 15inch Macbook Pro this weekend. My battery died from the pregnant battery syndrome and I'm also going to be upgrading the harddrive to a 750gb model.

I'll be going with a Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB 7200-RPM unless someone can convince me of a better option. I'll probably just throw the old harddrive in an enclosure to access a lot of the files on there, so I really just want to transfer the applications from my current harddrive.

What's the easiest way to transfer all my applications from the old drive to the new one? I have OS X Lion if it makes a difference. I've read a few different things and some say to install the new drive first, others suggest to connect the new drive to the laptop, transfer and then install. Not sure what is the best method.

Thanks
 
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Lexraider1 said:
Looks like I'll be doing some work on my early 2008 15inch Macbook Pro this weekend. My battery died from the pregnant battery syndrome and I'm also going to be upgrading the harddrive to a 750gb model.

I'll be going with a Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB 7200-RPM unless someone can convince me of a better option. I'll probably just throw the old harddrive in an enclosure to access a lot of the files on there, so I really just want to transfer the applications from my current harddrive.

What's the easiest way to transfer all my applications from the old drive to the new one? I have OS X Lion if it makes a difference. I've read a few different things and some say to install the new drive first, others suggest to connect the new drive to the laptop, transfer and then install. Not sure what is the best method.

Thanks
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im new to Mac but i think Time Machine to a external hard drive is the easiest way
 
As mentioned above... backup current drive... make a recovery USB stick for lion then remove old drive and install new boot off lion recovery USB and restore from your backup.
 
Can the existing HD be backed up to new drive and then swap them?
Is there a need for flash drive?
 
So with TimeMachine, Super Duper or Carbon Copy, can you pick to just backup the applications for migration later?

I don't want to fill up the new drive with all my files from the drive I'm replacing, I'd rather just keep this as an external since I no longer access a lot of the files on a frequent basis. My thoughts are that I would just copy over the files I do use frequently (music, pictures) but not transfer everything and immediately clutter the new drive.
 
iisforiphone said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but time machines backs up just the os x partition and carbon copy would backup your bootcamp partition aswell
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CarbonCopyCloner and SuperDuper create bootable clone images. Time machine backups cannot be directly bootable.

I don't think CCC or SuperDuper will copy a bootcamp partition.
 
If I am to back up all apps and data using Time Machine then do clean install OSX and restore apps and data back to HDD?

Carbon Copy is like Acronics True Image for Windows PC
 
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