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I am upgrading my hd in macbook with one of our sponsors hitachi's and need to move my old data onto the new, bigger drive.
Is it worth buying an external 2.5 case to keep the old 120 hd or just move it all to one of my external drives and sell the 120?
Any cheap external sata firewire 2.5 box would work I guess.
Any advice?
Oh and one more time, Super Duper worth the cost or just use CCC?
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I've never had a problem with Super Duper, and the free version will do the cloning for you.
Clone to any old external. Keep the 120 in case
a) you need to return the MacBook to Apple and they object to the user upgrade
b) the new HD fails
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And use it to back up your data!
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Ditto, and super easy to swap.I bought the drive and external kit from OWC and used CCC with no problems. Anybody have a source for the tiny screwdriver? I had to use a small "slot(blade)" driver and it did the job. I need to invest in a good set of small drivers.
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MacBook (the regular, not the pro, to be clear) is, bar none, the easiest HD replacement I've ever dealt with. A few screws to get to where it is, slide out the old one, slide in the new one. That's it. (Of course, do the cloning via SuperDuper and all that first as outlined above).
BTW, good instructional video here:
http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/in.../high.html
Though watch out for OWC's patented "super loud thunderclap" opening logo.
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sears has an excellent selection of small drivers, maybe $1.99 each
selling the 120 might only get you $20 or so
skip the 2.5" FW case -- which start at $35 -- and just go USB 2, which you should find for under $10
sure, it might take longer, but you are only doing this once
use the 120 for backup in the new case
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[quote freescotland]I am upgrading my hd in macbook with one of our sponsors hitachi's and need to move my old data onto the new, bigger drive.
Is it worth buying an external 2.5 case to keep the old 120 hd or just move it all to one of my external drives and sell the 120?
Any cheap external sata firewire 2.5 box would work I guess.
Any advice?
Oh and one more time, Super Duper worth the cost or just use CCC?
Did this just today with the Hitachi 320GB from OWC.
1. I cloned the existing 80GB drive to an external GUID formatted FW drive using SuperDuper.
2. Shut down MacBook and removed old HD and installed new 320GB Drive.
3. Booted off external FW drive and SuperDuper cloned back to internal 320GB drive.
4. Rebooted off internal drive to test that all is good. All is good.
Interestingly, booted off the FW drive and cloning BACK to the internal 320GB drive was much quicker than the original clone TO the FW drive.
First clone was about 14MB/sec. Second clone back to the blank internal drive was at 24MB/sec.
Haven't decided what to do with the 80GB drive that was removed.
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FWIW, I took one of my old OWC On The Go drives, installed OS 10 on it, and then a few repair & troubleshooting programs; it's now my ambulance drive. When a Mac in the house starts acting up a bit, I boot from it, run DiskWarrior or whatever from the drive -- it is much much much faster than booting from a CD or DVD.
To answer an earlier query, I use a combination of SuperDuper cloning and Time Machine and, yes, I think SuperDuper is worth every single penny.
I respectfully disagree re/going with just a USB drive, unless money is truly an issue. Not only will the main (and subsequent) backups be much faster, a restoration (and may you never need to do one) will be worlds less painful.
And I'll always recommend OWC's On The Go drives for this. More expensive than some, but well worth it.
