eflyguy

Currently has a Hitachi HTS543212L9SA02 with <10GB free..

I have a nice, fast Hitachi 320GB sitting unused right now -
(a) is there an Apple tool for moving the image to a new drive, and do I do this *before* I open it up (i.e. connect via USB? I have a 2.5" USB enclosure), &
(b) how easy is it to physically crack into the case to switch it out?

Thx!
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Marin

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

And it depends on which MacBook you have. With the plastic macbooks all you do is...

1. Remove the battery
2. Remove the metal liner
3. Pull out the HDD
4. Remove the tray and put it onto the new HDD

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Chucko

+1 for Carbon Copy Cloner.

I've done this a couple times, once by choice, twice because the old drive failed (ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATA!!!). Marin's got the instructions right. Installing a new hard drive in a MacBook is almost trivially easy.

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phospholipid

To remove the HDD, there are guides at www.ifixit.com

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eflyguy

OK, d/l'd ccc and am formatting the drive now, then will copy image..
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oregonducks45

you can use time machine to make a back up of your drive and then restore from there

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eflyguy

.. cloning ..

re: time machine - how do I boot to the new drive to start the restore process? ccc is making the new drive bootable, so once it's installed, I'm done!

I wish Time Machine would find my NAS device (WD WorldBook, it's a Mac issue - covered in another thread).. that's why I bought the darned thing!!!
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oregonducks45

well since you are making it bootable you wont need it, but you would back up to an external, pop in the hdd and the boot cd, hold down the c key (i believe), and choose restore from back up

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ErBall

It quite literally takes 5 mins to swap hard drives on the plastic macbook.

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eflyguy

.. that assumes my system came with a CD (or DVD) - it didn't, and I didn't see any way to create one ..

Hope so! About 50% done with cloning..
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