Macbook Hard Disk Clone & Upgrade
by admin on Mar.10, 2010, under How to
I demonstrate how to upgrade a Macbook hard drive – all the way from cloning the drive using superduper to installing the drive into the machine and booting. Any of these enclosures will work: preview.tinyurl.com This is the one I used, now $17.99: preview.tinyurl.com
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March 10th, 2010 on 6:22 am
Thank you so much! Excellent video!!
March 10th, 2010 on 6:37 am
brilliant video
March 10th, 2010 on 6:46 am
Thanks for the great video! Didn’t think about the drive enclosure things, now I can upgrade my drive and keep the old one for backup!
March 10th, 2010 on 7:11 am
Great video! Exactly what I was looking for to help guide me through a clone of my MacBook Pro. I will have to pick up one of those Enclosure thing, apparently–only have the new hard drive right now.
Great, clear explanation.
March 10th, 2010 on 7:46 am
Great video. The only thing you forgot to include was partitioning the new harddrive so that super duper can read it. But that info was easy enough to find. Great post I set up my new harddrive in under 2 hours cloning about 65 gigs of music and video. Thanks
March 10th, 2010 on 7:49 am
Hello! Thank you for posting these instructions! I appreciate it.
March 10th, 2010 on 8:34 am
Thanks man! i just ordered a hard drive and enclosure! I appreciate the instructions!
March 10th, 2010 on 9:32 am
I’ve done this twice with disc utility and superduper! and both times the os won’t load after, I get the apple on the grey screen but then it switches to a circle with a line through it. I think it might be something to do with directories being copied wrong or something but i don’t know how to fix it.
help please
March 10th, 2010 on 9:49 am
can i suggest carbon copy cloner? it’s free….
March 10th, 2010 on 10:28 am
hi my macbook’s HDD is failing (S.M.A.R.T) and i backed up using time machine. will i have to reinstall my leopard CD on my macbook again….?
March 10th, 2010 on 11:27 am
I also used Disk Utility to do a single default (GUID?) partition my drive right before using SuperDuper. Thanks for a great tutorial and thanks to SuperDuper folks as well.
March 10th, 2010 on 12:25 pm
Agree! To do this: with the new cloned drive connected via USB, hold the “option” key as the blank gray screen appears during boot up. You should be able to select which drive to boot from.
March 10th, 2010 on 12:43 pm
hi u alrite just wondering if this method will clone music programs aswell like Reason and Logic express etc?
March 10th, 2010 on 1:10 pm
If I may suggest…
You should test the new HDD by booting your mac to the external drive first.. just to see if your cloning is successfull.. THEN you swap the HDD
March 10th, 2010 on 2:06 pm
This is the best thing to prevent crashing and leaving you with nothing. Worked just like the video. Just turned it on and am leaving these comments. Thanks
March 10th, 2010 on 3:03 pm
you used voiceover. sounds nice.
March 10th, 2010 on 3:36 pm
yep
March 10th, 2010 on 4:18 pm
I have a Vista PC with 100GB Hard Drive. I have recently purchased a 320GB External Hard Drive. I am clear on taking apart and replacing the hard drives.
So if I create a backup/ clone of my 100GB hard drive onto my 320GB everything would be working as normal straight away after a place the 320GB in my PC?
March 10th, 2010 on 4:22 pm
Excellent help. Thanks!
March 10th, 2010 on 4:31 pm
how do you load the SuperDuper, i downloaded it and its a mac image file
March 10th, 2010 on 5:05 pm
As soon as I pick one up, I’ll let you know. =)
March 10th, 2010 on 5:15 pm
USB 2.0.
March 10th, 2010 on 5:48 pm
what interface does the external drive use?
March 10th, 2010 on 6:33 pm
Awesome video, just about to replace my 120 gig drive in white macbook with a 500 gig, I have a USB to SATA cable already so no enclosure needed. Didn’t have a clue about software and didn’t know about the torx bit. Will get that and be ready to upgrade when HDD gets here !
Thanks again for the great video !
March 10th, 2010 on 7:26 pm
nice T-shirt!=)